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Daily Create: The Color of Black and White, Lego Edition 0

Daily Create: The Color of Black and White, Lego Edition

So the assignment here was: “Transform your most colorful recent photo into on that is black and white, yet manages to not lose any of its intensity. Link to the original so we can...

Quite possibly the most amazing nature video ever made. 0

Quite possibly the most amazing nature video ever made.

Folks, this is breathtaking. It reminds me the times I interacted with an octopus, almost swam into a man-o-war while night snorkeling, saw the spawning of the glow worms in Bermuda and witnessed the...

Everything I need to know in life I learned at Games in Education 2013 5

Everything I need to know in life I learned at Games in Education 2013

With some serendipity and luck earlier this week, forces aligned for me to attend Games In Education 2013, a multi-day conference focusing on the intersection of games and learning. What helped was that it...

Beautiful, Interactive Maps for the Classroom (Now with GIS Analysis!) 1

Beautiful, Interactive Maps for the Classroom (Now with GIS Analysis!)

Well, it’s a week since I left the ESRI Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS (T3G) Conference held at ESRI in Redlands, CA. After a week of being completely distracted by another amazing conference, I now...

ELI 2013 Analytics: Learning From Our Connections 1

ELI 2013 Analytics: Learning From Our Connections

In this post I am using Twitter analytics to learn about the major themes, discussions, and resources which emerged at the Educause Learning Initiative Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, Feb. 4-6, 2013. First...

A Crowdsourced Essay on MOOCs and Higher Education Pedagogies 0

A Crowdsourced Essay on MOOCs and Higher Education Pedagogies

Note: This essay was created as a crowdsourced Google Doc as part of the Monday assignment for #MOOCMOOC. I found it worthwhile reading. I also wanted to get an initial post up for #MOOCMOOC...

#ETMOOC Hub Is Like Duct Tape For Our New Year’s Creations 0

#ETMOOC Hub Is Like Duct Tape For Our New Year’s Creations

Well it’s officially official. If this works I have my brand spankin’ new WordPress website alexchaucer.com category moocs/etmooc/feed linked into the #ETMOOC hub. I’m looking forward to getting started. I am MOOC curious Instructional...