OCTEL | Mark Johnstone | Activity http://octel.alt.ac.uk/members/markjohnstone/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Johnstone. Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:33:07 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.3.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 432b94bd82dde95b485cbd5b24521d5a Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/5835/#acomment-5842 Tue, 20 May 2014 05:19:04 +0100 Hi Meg.

I always struggle to keep up with these courses too. I try to go too deeply into things and get side tracked. This course really doesn’t require a high level of activity though. Try to make the weekly webinar (it’s a bit late for you though, I know) and do one or two activities. If you have a personal blog that’s a good place to…[Read more]

In reply to - meg colasante posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning I hope you don’t mind me joining this group in Week 3 of #ocTEL… It is the only group so far with both the words ‘design’ and ‘learning’ in […] ]]> b56506f616d0ef0cb5d8d4a41f576f67 Mark Johnstone started the topic Marking Group Worki in the forum Collaborative Learning http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/groups/collaborative-learning/forum/topic/marking-group-worki/ Fri, 16 May 2014 14:39:06 +0100 This conversations started in the chat box during the Week One ocTEL webinar. Inna Kochetkova asked whether anyone had experience using collaborative writing in teaching. That moved to Google Hangouts and then here.

Inna asked,

What I would like to know is how did you mark this collective assignment? Did you mark the end result and everyone in…

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]]> 0 a69e92f92ab3476753a00d88bfe4dc92 Mark Johnstone created the group Collaborative Learning http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/5645/ Fri, 16 May 2014 13:47:11 +0100 0 eafb5d56dfdd291bda9b1ede09972fe8 Mark Johnstone wrote a new post, Approaches to Learning #ocTEL, on the site ocTEL 2014 http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/?p=17825 Thu, 15 May 2014 15:29:42 +0100 Thumbnail
Amazing Mud Skippers are Surface Mavens
This week’s core activity on #ocTEL is to evaluate Marton, Hounsell and Entwistle’s approaches to learning framework in the light of one of a choice of four questions.
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]]> 0 69bd33baec4d47083d949f12d27f0220 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2874/#acomment-5191 Tue, 13 May 2014 03:04:01 +0100 I’ve been experimenting with Twitter, which I follow on my phone, but it is a little too ephemeral for me, too fast moving and disjointed. I do not see much real interaction happening there. I do see it as a good way to distribute things quickly to people you know are folloing it. You can write a blog post and send it to twitter using the #octel…[Read more]

In reply to - guy saward posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning Have just listened to the podcast from yesterday as could not listen in real time. Was interested to hear people talking about best ways to […] ]]> 3ecf959e78275f1d08843ad5389fc1d5 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/3145/#acomment-3655 Sat, 03 May 2014 19:30:55 +0100 I tried using Moodle Workshop but found it very difficult to manage and I did not understand how it was marking students work. Another problem was students missing deadlines – they ALL need to finish one phase before moving on to the next, which meant that we slowly lost participants as the assignment progressed and there was not much that could…[Read more]

In reply to - barbarapg posted an update in the group Language teachers @vbaxter I am sorry to be so badly informed, but what are long-tern SOL residents? I am trying to get more colleagues to use Google docs too. Have you […] ]]> 1bf77dbcc34cacdcf0e653530a8740dc Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/3157/#acomment-3648 Sat, 03 May 2014 19:25:06 +0100 Google Docs gives students reasonable control over who can see what. If you’re working in K-12 you have special constraints. Have you looked at Edmodo. That is designed specially with these restrictions in mind.

In reply to - damon_tokyo posted an update in the group Language teachers @vbaxter @barbarapg Our programme uses Moodle heavily, but mainly to deliver content. We have found some of the functions, as you say, heavy and time […] ]]> f90ec30c2ecd4152bac7c52cc6ecad25 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/3157/#acomment-3647 Sat, 03 May 2014 19:23:31 +0100 Hi Damon,

I’ve found the same thing using Moodle and GoogleDrive. Other teachers at my institution had been using GoogleDrive for several years before I started. I stayed in Moodle for a long time and only discovered GoogleDrive once I started a collaborative writing program. My institution does not use GoogleDocs so students need to create their…[Read more]

In reply to - damon_tokyo posted an update in the group Language teachers @vbaxter @barbarapg Our programme uses Moodle heavily, but mainly to deliver content. We have found some of the functions, as you say, heavy and time […] ]]> 2318762477988c37001594d26e4a38e9 Mark Johnstone posted an update in the group Language teachers: Hi Barbara, Thanks for starting this group. I teach EFL in […] http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/3642/ Sat, 03 May 2014 18:53:58 +0100 Hi Barbara,

Thanks for starting this group. I teach EFL in Saudi Arabia on ground and work as an instructional designer at Clemson University, South Carolina, where I’m working on a couple of teams designing online language and culture programs in Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.

I’m interested in finding out how colleagues are using ICT in…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dcb3e82ab0cf0b64c4359736b63df4d Mark Johnstone joined the group Language teachers http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/3641/ Sat, 03 May 2014 18:50:38 +0100 0 5df318db8ec8b3971425181ff0ff95c8 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2336/#acomment-3613 Sat, 03 May 2014 18:00:42 +0100 Hi Alicia,

Thanks a lot. This is very useful to me, especially the Michigan resources. I’m sure teachers will be interested in Scribble. We are also using BB Collaborate and this is one of the tools instructors were interested in using for synchronous sessions.

One of the problems I struggle with, personally, is curriculum for language courses.…[Read more]

In reply to - Alicia Vallero posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning Hi! I’m a Spanish teacher at Bond University in the Gold Coast, Australia. I have been using different types of technology in my classes with […] ]]> 35e9d1e7ab76c9c81309e5032b9f64f7 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2876/#acomment-2900 Thu, 01 May 2014 18:26:45 +0100 Welcome Juilie! Nice to see you here.

In reply to - Julie Tardy joined the group Design for Open Learning ]]> 0c327e6bdb85da292d1dbe9caabf3353 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/1288/#acomment-2899 Thu, 01 May 2014 18:23:44 +0100 Hey Guy,

I’m interested in the distinction between open resources and open curricula. What kind of outcomes do you think could be linked to an open curriculum? I’m a language teacher so our outcomes can be quite wobbly at times. While some colleagues insist on drawing lines in the sand – they are also the ones that complain most about students.

In reply to - Mark Johnstone started the topic How do you design for open learning? in the forum Design for Open Learning Today on linked in I found a post by someone talking about learning design. He was thinking about the […] ]]> 4538450c0170bc2c21b0421f8c6fd423 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2336/#acomment-2897 Thu, 01 May 2014 18:20:25 +0100 Hi Alicia. Can you tell us something about how you are using tech in your language classes? Are these online or on ground? I’m on a design team working on online courses aimed at three lesser taught languages: Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. I’d love to hear about what you’re doing.

In reply to - Alicia Vallero posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning Hi! I’m a Spanish teacher at Bond University in the Gold Coast, Australia. I have been using different types of technology in my classes with […] ]]> fdc7f468623f0637f8e51b9ab2ce29b8 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2874/#acomment-2896 Thu, 01 May 2014 18:18:24 +0100 I use FB with a couple of closed groups but don’t like it very much. It’s a handy platform if you know who you’re dealing with, but it’s a little over exposed. I’m new to G+ and exploring that now on this MOOC. Twitter is still a mystery to me.

In reply to - guy saward posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning Have just listened to the podcast from yesterday as could not listen in real time. Was interested to hear people talking about best ways to […] ]]> 0dd277ed6213435e753498c7f6844ee8 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2767/#acomment-2895 Thu, 01 May 2014 18:15:33 +0100 I’ve participated on a few unstructured MOOCs and I think I’m starting to understand them better now. I enjoyed the OLDS Mooc last year (Open University). That was all over the place but also quite goal driven. I felt a lot of pressure to keep up. Rhizo14 this year was completely the opposite. Also unstructured but no pressure at all. It wandered…[Read more]

In reply to - guy saward posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning Interested to see the way group formation is going, and interested to see balance between self-organisation and tutor-led groupings. Seems to […] ]]> e0753fe936ea0a8cddd47eb5683cb437 Mark Johnstone earned a week 0 badge: Webinar Badge: Tune in or watch the weekly recording of each week's webinar […] http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2232/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:24:28 +0100 week-0-webinarTune in or watch the weekly recording of each week’s webinar to achieve the this badge. To receive this badge click on the badge link and enter the code given during the webinar in the submission box.

]]> 0 0c94ad6e7ac93e3a941eaf71d6410368 Mark Johnstone posted an update in the group Design for Open Learning: Today's webinar was an interesting experience in open […] http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/2003/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:48:18 +0100 Today’s webinar was an interesting experience in open course design. It looks like there is a very wide range of people participating in this course with a lot of different types of skills.

Did anyone else participate in that? What did you think?

]]> 1 ce4f911f4e5038ffa54d71f50d996119 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4901 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:10:10 +0100 A agree. The notion that you can force people to do “what’s good for them” is patronizing and condescending. Even when a mark is awarded for work done, it is possible to accommodate different types of interaction “for assessment” – if someone wants the mark. The compulsory thing comes from instructionist thinking: the teacher has the answers and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c26794d63e5ff06afd99798d0bf4a80 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4385 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:02:19 +0100 Hey Maha,

No tech is not central. Tech is a rock and a stick once you tie the stick to the rock. It’s a tool that you can use and improvise. What tools do is open new opportunities. It’s interesting to see how people “misbehave” with them, turn them to their own devices. I think of twitter as pretty low tech. Most people have this and you can use…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a305e451c66ea1e0f887396da105a91 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4374 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:51:40 +0100 Hello Rosalind,

Health care professionals must be no strangers to technology. I noticed you said “appropriate method to deliver information that is meaningful to learners and educators”… the keyword here is “deliver”. This says quite a lot.

What is meaningful to each of us emerges from who we are and what we aspire to do. It’s so hard to say,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e02273824978cb2d58dc6c6b3cafe816 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4332 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:42:18 +0100 Well Graham, you can start out with something that makes sense to you, and with minimal expectations. If your students have phones, they can use twitter to answer a little question for you in class and go from there. All you need is a twitter account and a hashtag. Make up the #hashtag on the fly #mycourse or something. Give it ten minutes and see…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca9035984d226e8616788161280c97d5 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4317 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:37:22 +0100 I think this is phpBB – no favorites.

]]> 0 e7698071dc1ef8582be98e53ed49dab9 Mark Johnstone replied to the topic in the forum http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/forums/topic/activity-0-1-big-and-little-questions/#post-4313 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:35:04 +0100 In my institution students don’t lack IT skills as much as teachers to. Today, one colleague was demanding that all classrooms be provided with paper dictionaries.. and thesauri no less.. because she was appalled at students looking up words on their phones. “When they look on their phones, they only see ONE word” she said, “but when they look in…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3863d7f87dc76eab50eee236fcee3e2 Mark Johnstone wrote a new post, #ocTEL Big and Little Questions, on the site ocTEL 2014 http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/?p=6176 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:14:27 +0100 ThumbnailThis is our first “assignment” in ocTEL. Simon Hawksey asks us to

reflect on your work experience and ambitions for developing your teaching.

Can you identify the most important question about TEL that matters […]

]]> 0 03d4895a022164328f44ddf25e4af069 Mark Johnstone posted a new activity comment http://octel.alt.ac.uk/activity/p/1288/#acomment-1378 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:47:33 +0100 Yeah. It’s billed as an “open course” but who knows what people think that means.

MOOC means “massively open” but no one seems to agree about what “open” means. Last month I participated on Bruno LaTour’s “mooc” on scientific humanities on the French platform, FUN. That was a walled course in many ways… you couldn’t even get onto it if you…[Read more]

In reply to - Mark Johnstone started the topic How do you design for open learning? in the forum Design for Open Learning Today on linked in I found a post by someone talking about learning design. He was thinking about the […] ]]> 08c55d12981637f6dd75c46b283bc5e5 Mark Johnstone started the topic How do you design for open learning? in the forum Design for Open Learning http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/groups/design-for-open-learning/forum/topic/how-do-you-design-for-open-learning/ Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:02:28 +0100 Today on linked in I found a post by someone talking about learning design. He was thinking about the open web and incorporating it into his course and said that he preferred to force users to stay on his course and finish it as he’d intended.

He explained that he worked in corporate training – AKA compliance learning.

I work in an institutional…[Read more]

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