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Re: http://katie-lou.tumblr.com/post/468685655

MarionJensen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:39:38 -0000

Hey, I've stood right there in front of that Gaudi building!

Re: USU OpenCourseWare is a Virtual Visitor’s Center

MarionJensen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:56:41 -0000

Great post. Although I've tracked as many as 50,000 unique visitors a month, so the site attracts closer to 500,000 to 500,000 visitors a month.

Well said!

Re: How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?

MarionJensen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:13:18 -0000

I typed what Kurt said, almost word for word, before I saw what he had written. Us ex-COSL folks must have the same twisted sense of humor.

Re: The Princess and the Pea

MarionJensen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:59:54 -0000

I'm with Alyssa. I don't like peas either. But I think I'd eat it if it got me cashew chicken.

Re: Justin and Joel’s Epic Mountain Bike Adventure

MarionJensen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:55:36 -0000

Oh sure, break out the mountain bikes AFTER I leave. :)

Nice pics.

Re: Learning Technology Customers

MarionJensen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:27:16 -0000

It is interesting to me that a lot of the things we want students to do, they are already doing with tools of their own choosing. We want students to communicate with each other, which they do on Facebook. We want them to write about topics, which many of them do on their blogs. We want them to do research, which all of them do proficiently on Google. We ask them to create and do projects, which many of them do on youtube.

Everything that these LMS tools provide are merely (cheap) imitations of something that is already being used by students on the internet. And yet we ask students and faculty (and believe me, the faculty are as unhappy to use the CMS as the students are) to learn this new tool so that they can do these things in privacy. Though why we're forcing students and faculty to do learning behind closed doors is beyond me.

If I was teaching a class, I would have my syllabus online. I would set up a class area in Facebook, and discussion would take place in an open forum. Projects might take place on a wiki. Assignments would be submitted on blogs, and each student in the class would 'blogroll' each other. Any information that needed to be private (grades, personal maters, etc.), would take place via e-mail. Tests would be open book because it's more important that my students are thinking, than memorizing.

I personally feel that an institution doesn't even need an LMS any more. All of the technology is not only out there, but students already know how to use it, and are using it!