Teaching in the Clouds with Your Feet on the Ground
Laurie L Burruss
Keywords: mobile classroom, ipads, apps
Abstract
With increasing availability of Internet learning solutions and resources, teacher and learner live somewhere between the cloud and the classroom. Explore creating aggregated learning “playlists” and identifying strategies for implementing “cloud” applications and tools that create “personalized” curriculum, programs, and projects for self-learning, hybrid or flipped classrooms, and online courses. Tools/Resources:
- Evernote – the Personalized Student Digital Notebook
- Learni.st – Annotated URLs and learning documents
- Online libraries such as lynda.com: eLearning, Mobile Solutions, Shared Playlists & Folders
- Wikispaces.org – the FREE LMS
- MOOCs – Archived National Treasures in Education
- Strategy: The 5-Finger Rule for Picking Your Online Tools
Author Biography
Laurie L Burruss
Laurie Burruss teaches at Pasadena City College and consults in Education at lynda.com for academic initiatives, support and strategies. She also served for 20 years Director of PCC's Digital Media Center - a regional resource for collaboration between education, industry, and the community.