Month: July 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-07-28

  • Smoothest ride through the tunnel all summer. #
  • Wow, already noon. #
  • I like to Tweet in the elevator. #
  • Looking for to my Project Management for Training students’ final presentations this evening. They seem to have worked so hard #
  • I like the Google logo for today, in honor or Beatrix Potter’s Birthday. #
  • @abalone We do what we can . . . #

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Facilitating Online Communities Class

I just learned from my colleague Sylvia Currie at SCoPE that there is a new, online class that begins today–Facilitating Online Communities. Facilitated by Leigh Blackall at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, this seems like another of the intersting summer learning experiences to be aimed at a global audience of community facilitators and educators.

I just signed up for it, and am looking forward to several weeks of learning and meeting new colleagues. I am thinking more and more about a class as a virtual community of practice, and am hoping to learn some ways to integrate this into my online teaching, especially my upcoming Principles and Practices of Online Course Creation and Instructional Design course and the online graduate courses I will teach thereafter.

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-07-27

  • Watching Song of Bernadette. Always been fascinated by Lourdes. #
  • Drinking Sunday morning coffee listening to an NPR tribute to Burt Bacharach. #
  • Reviewing research books for a Fall class I am redesigning. #
  • Hear lots of thunder slowly getting louder. Do not see the dark sky yet. #
  • Flash flood and hail warning just came across NOAA for the Western Catskills. #
  • Severe thunder and lightning now. The sky is very dark. Quickly walked the dogs before the rain came. #
  • Hope the rain is done for the night. #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-07-25

  • @abalone I felt classy and sophisticated just hearing him talk and seeing what he wears! #
  • @gusgreeper Sounds great, if not a bit TMI. Oh well, you are speaking only among a few friends or so here. #
  • @Currie Thank you! #
  • NYU is using the Epsilen platform for online courses in the Fall. Anybody familiar with it? #
  • @BronSt I am not familar with him. Ahh, the global community here! #
  • @BronSt I cannot claim to have any fashion sense (or even interest), but Tim Gunn is like Home Depot, “You can do it, and I can help!” #
  • @skydaddy Intersting materials you showed me! #
  • @ChrisRicca HOpe you squeezed every bit of vacation out of the trip. However, NYC is quiet this time of the year, so nice time to return. #
  • @abalone Thank you for the interesting link. #
  • @BronSt I agree completely. On the flip side, not sure if I ever would have seen him even with traveling more. Not quite my area of interest #
  • @skydaddy Do I hear an “Amen!” coming? #
  • Just bought some Chartreuse after enjoying it so much last weekend. #
  • A final errand into Lord and Taylor, and back to the office. #
  • Minestrone soup. Healthy and yummy. #
  • Minestrone soup. Healthy and yummy. #
  • Finished revising our Course Design Document. #
  • Finished my last meeting of the day. Need time to do the work now! #
  • Just revised the rubric for the final project in my Project Management for Training class. #

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