Effective and Ineffective Social Media Messages: When Backchannels Backfire By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review In this session of the social media class, we talked about how things can go wrong in social media networks, and, more generally, while communicating in a globally networked society. First however, we discussed how messages become viral … Read more
Social Media and Fake News By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Just because you see it online, doesn’t mean it’s a fact… How to develop a spider-sense for fake news? The second session of my social media class dealt with the topic of fake news, one of the most … Read more
Social Media and Seamless Learning By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Since fall 2014, mobile devices officially outnumber people on the planet. With the ubiquitous access to mobile technologies, social media has become a global phenomenon. According to the data portal Statista, the power of social networking is such … Read more
Global Interdisciplinary College Course: Wired IDS394 By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Are you looking for lessons to teach your students how to interact online with benevolent intention and personal safeguards? This spring semester, I teach a component of an interdisciplinary college course on technology called, Wired, with a dozen … Read more
A Rubric to Identify Online Course Plans for a Community of Inquiry By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Community of Inquiry A community of inquiry (COI) is what it sounds like—people gather to learn from each other. I argue that a COI can be preplanned to engender a robust learning environment. What that entails is under … Read more
Virtual Reality For Everyone: An Interview with Greg Garner from Panoform By Angela Brown for AACE Review Panoform is a virtual reality application that allows people to transform drawings into immersive, three-dimensional environments. All you need is pen, paper, a smartphone with Internet access and, ideally, a VR viewer, example a simple Google Cardboard viewer. … Read more
Panoform – Explore Your Own Sketches In Virtual Reality With Simple Materials By Angela Brown for AACE Review My introduction to Panoform for creating virtual reality was through an AACE Review article on the Making Workshop at EdMedia 2018. This article shares our experiments in an informal learning setting. The Panoform website describes the intention of … Read more
Of Monsters and Tech: Making an Interactive Book with Scratch and Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review In a previous post Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey, I hinted at a project that had created a shift in how I value making something simple. This is a story about making something that felt useless. During … Read more
EdTech Research: Ready For Your Next Conference? Consider Sketchnoting to Learn and Connect By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Whether you are packing your bags to attend an edtech conference and looking forward to all the interesting meetings, talks and ideas the event will spark, or you are on your return journey and contemplating how to share … Read more
Designing for Open Learning: An Interview with Gráinne Conole By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review In September 2018 Gráinne Conole started in her new role as Professor and Head of Open Education at the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University (NIDL). Prior to her current position, the native Irish scholar … Read more