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
“Hello world!” A beginner’s guide to the Hour of Code By Angela Brown for AACE Review Hour of Code held between December 3 – 9 is a global invitation reaching out to anyone and everyone. You are invited to spend an hour exploring the language of computer code. If you have never written code … 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
Improving Civic Discourse by Fostering Web Literacy: An Interview with Mike Caulfield By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Mike Caulfield is the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, Vancouver (WSU). He regularly blogs about edtech topics at Hapgood. He is an expert on informal learning, online communities and open educational resources. Throughout … Read more
Interview with the Creators of Hoaxy® from Indiana University By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more
Moonhack 2018: A new world record for kids coding! By Angela Brown for AACE Review On 20th July 2018, kids all over the world participated in Moonhack, a space-themed event to get kids coding. When I first wrote about Moonhack 2018 it was a month before launch and the anticipation was building like … Read more
An Interview with Jeff Gallant from Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review In the last decade, the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) has gained an undeniable momentum. At the same time, both faculty and students face barriers adopting OER. How can we foster a collaborative teaching climate in higher … Read more