Hangout on Air: Diversity in Groups, a Cross-Cultural Connected Learning Experience

I'd like to extend a warm invitation to you to view a Hangout on Air I will be moderating tomorrow -- I think you will love it! 

I will be facilitating a conversation with Jaimie Hoffman, Lecturer and Instructional Technologist at CSU Channel Islands in California, and Mario Perez, of Asia Pacific University in Beppu City, Oita, Japan.  Jaimie and Mario will be discussing an innovative teaching experiment they collaborated on together that brought together Jaimie's students in California with Mario's students in Japan to learn about diversity in groups.  Jaimie and Mario selected VoiceThread as the tool to facilitate the active learning experience for their students.

Jaimie has written a fabulous reflection about the project (including lessons learned) on the VoiceThread blog. Check it out!

Then join us tomorrow at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern for the Hangout on Air. 

• Click here to view live HoA on Wed, 2/25 at 4pm PT (the Q&A feature is enabled so feel free to submit your questions during our conversation!)
• View the archive of the HOA on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/Xap0vpanrZg

Getting Started with "Connected Courses"

I'm putting my best learner foot forward and attempting to engage in an open online course that is filled with EdTech rockstars and exploring the dazzling topic of learning in the open web through peer interactions.  The course is called Connected Courses (#CCourses) and includes all of these amazing people as facilitators.

I'm making this post to be able to connect my blog to the syndication feed for the course.  Want to join in?  Sign up today (yes, it's free and open to all who have an interest in joining together to explore the possibilities of connected learning in the open web.  The class officially begins on September 15th. The first unit will explore:

What is, or should be, the future of higher education?  What do we stand to lose or gain in pursuing the possibilities opened up by the Web?  What are the underlying logics and effects of different approaches to teaching with technology/online?