Comments for THATCamp Florida 2011

Comment on Narrative Learning Environments (NLEs), Serious Games and Simulation by gdettori

gdettori — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:08:25 +0000

Narrative Learning Environments are usually considered as learning environments involving the students in ICT-mediated learning activities in which narratives related to the proposed cognitive task play a central role.
I don’t know if in the 3 months after you posted your question you received other answers or run some a camp on it. Anyway, I am very much interested in this topic, if you still are as well, please keep in touch.

Comment on Embedded Librarians by Mark Long

Mark Long — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:29:24 +0000

I think this is a great program and am just beginning to implement it in my online classes this semester for the first time. I look forward to learning more about it and discussing strategies to make it work for all my students, not just the proactive ones who are likely to engage with a Librarian on their own anyway.

Comment on ScholarPress in the “Classroom” by Mark Long

Mark Long — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:23:18 +0000

I thought long and hard about FERPA before deciding to take my courses out of Blackboard, and would love to talk about that this weekend. My final conclusion was that it was fine to do so, obviously, but not without hesitation. We can also talk about technical solutions (in my case, within WordPress) for dealing with the potential complications that arise.

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Comment on ScholarPress in the “Classroom” by brucejanz

brucejanz — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:42:11 +0000

I think FERPA can be dealt with, if handled carefully. For instance, I use an outside wiki pretty extensively (pbworks). Students upload work, and I make comments on their work on the wiki itself. The grade, though, goes in the MyUCF tool. I can imagine the same thing working for blogs or other tools as well. We used Glogster last term, and did the same thing there.

Comment on INTx by Mark Long

Mark Long — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:26:23 +0000

That sounds like a fascinating project and one I am interested in learning a lot more about. I am particularly interested in thinking about other applications and, of course, learning about the toys, err…, tools involved that make it work.

Comment on ScholarPress in the “Classroom” by leclaire

leclaire — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:20:51 +0000

I agree that there are multiple better options – such as e-portfolios – which have the added advantage of continuing beyond an individual course and building as the student moves through their program.

However, one concern that I hear frequently from the Administration perspective is FERPA considerations. I would be interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts about this.

Comment on INTx by leclaire

leclaire — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:14:13 +0000

I am very interested in learning more about this project – particularly how your communication methods differ/improve upon web conferencing as currently done.

Comment on ScholarPress in the “Classroom” by amyfoster

amyfoster — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:49:39 +0000

I know I would demand more written work on exams from my students (and I’d like to believe I could make them better writers) if there were an easier way to grade it other than that d*!# comment box in Webcourses. But I still want to have timed exams with written components. I don’t know of a better way to do that outside of Blackboard.

Comment on ScholarPress in the “Classroom” by brucejanz

brucejanz — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:24:47 +0000

I have many annoyances about Blackboard, and in fact came up with a document called “Things Blackboard Can’t Do” when I was going through the training. So yes, going outside of its limited capabilities is something I’m interested in as well.

Comment on About by leclaire

leclaire — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:52:31 +0000

Interested in sharing ideas about design and development of Narrative Learning Environments, Serious Games and simulations for teaching the Humanities.