Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture: slideshare

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Your Hybrid Classroom: Will You Change Your Paradigm?

I learned a lot today. As I shared in my earlier posts, a recent presentation I shared on Slideshare.net received a great deal of attention. What I'm reflecting on now is how much I was motivated by seeing my own content "go viral." I was so motivated that I uploaded another presentation just a few hours ago title, "Your Hybrid Classroom: Will You Change Your Paradigm?" This is a variation of a presentation I gave recently to a group of hybrid faculty at a near by university.

Here is the embedded presentation. I do hope you enjoy it and that it inspires a few professors to embrace hybrid teaching as an opportunity to change their teaching paradigm.

Your Hybrid Classroom: Will You Change Your Paradigm? social media, 21st century skills, web2.0

View more presentations from Michelle Pacansky-Brock.

Within a few hours of posting the above presentation to Slideshare.net, I received an email from Slideshare informing me that it had been selected to be showcased on their homepage in the "Featured Presentations" area. Wow! Now I just want to share more! I think, as educators, we need to pause and learn from this, as these extrinsic rewards really to motivate one to want to do good work and share it with the world...not such a bad thing, is it?

I took this screenshot because I realize this attention is fleeting (and I needed some kind of proof!):

It's a Virally Fun Day!

Just received this email from Slideshare: "Your presentation, Online Learning in the Social Web, is being talked about on Facebook more than any other document on SlideShare right now. So we've put it on the homepage of SlideShare.net (in the "Hot on Facebook" section).

So cool.