List of Highest Reg FridayLive! Sessions 2011-12 for Review2012/Plan2013 FREE ONLINE 2pmET Dec 21 tlt.gs/frlv tomorrow

Below is a list of 2011-12 FridayLive! sessions with highest advance registration - in order within each subgroup.  [Click here for titles of our previous sessions from 2011 & 2012 in alphabetic order]

Help us review our free online offerings from 2011-2012 and plan our program for 2013. Make requests and proposals. Volunteer to be Voice of the Chat and other roles we'll be developing. Register free as usual for Dec 21 2pmET: tlt.gs/frlv

If you can't be with us tomorrow, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year! anyway.
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Topics for FridayLive! Sessions with at least 140 advance registrants:

• There's an App for That
• There's an APP for That 2.0
• Social Networking and Higher Ed - Keeping Up
• Online Teaching - Wading into - Jennifer McCrickerd Reports
• Copyright: Kenneth Crews, Columbia University
• Legal Side of the Creative Classroom
• Understanding and Working with Student Resistance to Active Learning

100 to 140 Advance Registrants

• MOOCs Planning for and using 
• Copyright: Cable Green, Creative Commons  ON A THURSDAY! May 24 
• Navigating the Technology Tsunami
• Community Online - Building a Sense of 
• Why do my colleagues keep teaching the same way?
• Online Instructional Resources  Developing a Website: What, Why, How
• Lilly Directors Roundtable
• Online Synchronous Faculty Learning Communities - It Can be Done Successfully! Recommendations and findings from first full-year experience (with physician educators).
• Steven Bell Interview
• Revolution or Evolution: Social Technologies and Pedagogical Change
• Strategies for Overcoming Student Resistance

70 to 100 Advance Registrants

FridayLive! Review2012/Plan2013 Tomorrow 12/21 2pmET FREE ONLINE tlt.gs/frlv

The TLT Group provides weekly free highly-interactive online discussions (voice, slides, chat, videos, ...) almost every Friday during the academic year.  
Help us review our offerings from 2011-2012 and plan our program for 2013.  Make requests and proposals.  Volunteer to be Voice of the Chat and other roles we'll be developing.  Register free as usual for Dec 21 2pmET:  tlt.gs/frlv

If you can't be with us tomorrow, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year! anyway.   
PS:  Please click here to support the (non-profit) TLT Group with a donation as 2012 ends and you decide what you can do financially for the organizations you admire. Why support the TLT Group?
Here's a list of titles of our previous sessions from 2011 & 2012 in alphabetic order:

1. Avoiding the Discussion: SILVER CLOUD
2. Change IS Possible - Despite Politics and Counterimplementation Tactics
3. Change IS Possible! From On-Campus to [More] Online
4. Colleges Doing Creative Things to Stay Alive
5. Community Online - Building a Sense of 
6. Copyright: Cable Green, Creative Commons  ON A THURSDAY! May 24 
7. Copyright: Kenneth Crews, Columbia University
8. Dissecting a Hybrid Workshop PLUS Update on Ender's Test
9. Ender's Game -  Book Discussion

TGIF -- Join the Last 2012 Friday Live

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Thirtieth issue, Volume Five	TLT Group TGIF 12.19.2012
From TLT Group World Headquarters	Check out the TLT website for 2013 events. FridayLive! will be back with a great line up. Members Only Exchange: Social Media/Networking Tools/Resources Members Only Silver Cloud Monthly event. PowerPoint Workshop Online Exploration Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup (sMOOChers)
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog Is your college on the edge, near the edge, or over? What can you/anyone do? TODAY Dec14 2pmET tlt.gs/frlv MOOCs=enemy/soln? "Callooh! Callay!" "Doo-lang.." "oo ee, oo ah ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang" Add more via: #tltgdoolang tlt.gs/blog "doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang" "Da Doo Ron Ron" "Coo coo ca choo" Add to this list? #tltgdoolang tlt.gs/blog
Online Workshops	Members Only Exchange Social Media/Networking Tools/Resources    This session is free for TLT Group Members Fee for others Register here. January 9, 2013 2:00 PM ET January 23, 2013  2:00 PM ET February 13, 2013 2:00 PM ET Higher education faculty and other academic professionals will be introduced to social media/networking tools/resources. 2-3 tools/resources will be demonstrated. No previous experience is needed.   We keep learning about new tools and resources from our members.  This is the first session where those members will be introducing the tools and resources they are currently using. PowerPoint Workshop with Deirdre Bonnycastle. 2/20, 2/27, and 3/6/13.  More information to come Silver Cloud Workshop - look for more information soon.
	Review, Respond and ShapeFridayLive! December 21, 2012  2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.   Presenters: Steve Gilbert and Beth Dailey Register in advance This week join us to review 2012, respond to our events in 2012 and help shape the Spring sessions of FridayLive! We especially want to thank those who have been so helpful to us this year in furthering our scope.  We look forward to having them continue to our future events. The January  FridayLive! schedule is available, check it out: January 11 Mobile App Learning Lounge January 18 Teaching through Students' Physical and Virtual Eyes January 25 Dealing with Disruptive Students
MOOCs Round Two	sMOOChers  Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup Online Exploration January 25, 2013 through March 1, 2013 PLUS FridayLive! report on March 8, 2013. 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern This series of meetings is free to TLT Group Individual Members.$100 for non members.  [Although you are welcome to become an Individual Member for $75 and attend for free.  Check your institution's status here if you have your membership through an institutional subscription.] Our second cohort will participate in a Coursera course: E-learning and Digital Cultures      and meet together to discuss the course content as well as the process Almost weekly online synchronous sessions in the TLT Group's Adobe Connect classroom - Fridays, January 25, February 8 and 22, and March 1, 2013. 1-1:30 PM ET. E-learning and Digital Cultures Jeremy Knox, Sian Bayne, Hamish Macleod, Jen Ross, Christine Sinclair U Edinburgh This course will explore how digital cultures and learning cultures connect, and what this means for e-learning theory and practice. Follow this course at #edcmooc. https://www.coursera.org/course/edc Register both for the MOOC and for this TLT Group cohort
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Is your college on the edge, near the edge, or over? What can you/anyone do? TODAY Dec14 2pmET tlt.gs/frlv MOOCs=enemy/soln?

FREE ONLINE TODAY Friday Dec 14 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv Alice Brown discusses how to tell when a college is heading for trouble, what some colleges have done to successfully avoid going over the edge, and when it is too late.

Don't look up! You might see the "edge" and realize you've already gone over it!

The fiscal edge? [not to be confused with the "fiscal cliff"- I hope most of our colleges and universities will deal more constructively and mutually respectfully than our federal government with these financial crises]

Is your college on the edge, near the edge, or over the edge? What are the symptoms? What conditions make "muddling through" no longer viable?

What can you do? What can anyone do? Who cares? What is better than deserting a [possibly] sinking ship? What kinds of leaders can make a [positive!] difference?

Are MOOCs the solution or the enemy? Will the growing competition among providers of online higher education allow your college to add enough fee-paying online students to get through the next couple of years financially intact? [Getting less likely every day!] If so, is that a sustainable long-term strategy? Is it a desirable long-term strategy? What will your college become? What will faculty become? etc.

In what ways are these issues the same [or different] for

"Callooh! Callay!” ”Doo-lang.." “oo ee, oo ah ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang” Add more via: #tltgdoolang tlt.gs/blog

"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

  He chortled in his joy." 

Tenniel's Jabberwocky

- excerpt from "Jabberwocky" [full text of poem by Lewis Carroll;  background on "Jabberwocky" below.]  
No music, but still memorable...

If Lewis Carroll had been born a century later, could he have been a Chiffon?  One of the Crystals?  Beatles?  Joined Simon & Garfunkle?
Improved on (or been improved by):   
"doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang" "Da Doo Ron Ron" "Coo coo ca choo"?

So,  help me extend this list.  Add your suggestions as comments to this post or send an email  or tweet with hashtag #tltgdoolang

REPEAT FROM YESTERDAY'S BLOG POSTWhy do so many of us recognize ...these powerful but meaningless lyrics...  Whether we like it or not?  ...could they help us understand something about the impact of brevity, music, repetition, social context, and emotional association on learning and communication. Really.

Jabberwocky [1871] & "Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang" [1958]

"doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang" "Da Doo Ron Ron" "Coo coo ca choo" Add to this list? #tltgdoolang tlt.gs/blog

Tenniel illustration for
"The Walrus and the Carpenter"
by master of nonsense syllables, Lewis Carroll!

"doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang" "Da Doo Ron Ron" "Coo coo ca choo"  
Why do so many of us recognize the songs that delivered these powerful but meaningless lyrics - even without hearing the music?   Whether we like it or not?    Other examples?  See below for the sources of the 1st three.

I began collecting these for fun, but I wonder if they could help us understand something about the impact of brevity, music, repetition, social context, and emotional association on learning and communication.  Really.

So,  help me extend this list.  Add your suggestions as comments to this post or send an email to gilbert@tltgroup.org or tweet with hashtag #tltgdoolang  

Here's the background on the first 3, beginning with "doo-lang...":

TGIF -- Three events this week: Wed, Thurs. and Friday

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Twenty ninth issue, Volume Five	TLT Group TGIF 12.11.2012
From TLT Group World Headquarters	When deciding what you can do in 2012 for organizations you admire we hope you will think of the TLT Group. Please click here to support the (non-profit) TLT Group with a donation as 2012 ends. Two NEW member only workshop series will begin in January: Members Only Exchange: Social media/Networking Tools/Reslources Silver Cloud Monthly event.
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog Painfully funny re core standards: Read "Recommended Levels of Insulation" to/with your kids. Clothe the emperor! Experiments w TAs, peer-grading in MOOCs - Coursera - elsewhere? PREP FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv Marcus notes1 "Univs suffering from near-fatal 'cost disease'..is Tech the Answer" HELPFUL PREP FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv 13 Useful Questions re MOOCs frame Marcus' Notes from Stanford "Unconference," HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv Marcus recommends almost 30 recent pubs (comments, analyses) re MOOCs: HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv J. Marcus' Letter to sMOOChers re recent reports/analyses re MOOCs (comments, links) HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv
Online Workshops	NEW for December!!! Members Only Exchange Different Kinds of Roles : Additional roles to improve online/hybrid courses, sessions (This session is free to TLT Group Members $75 Fee to others) December 12, 2012 2:00pm EDT Leaders: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others. Register in advance here.   What's the least an additional person could do to be useful in contributing to the teaching/running of online/hybrid sessions What if the person is a faculty colleague from the same academic department? What if the person is a student serving as "designated scribe"? What if the person is a retiree quite expert in the subject? A retiree from another discipline entirely? An instructional designer? A Grad TA? How much/little authority, responsibility, tasks can/should be shared? Also - an exploration of WHAT ROLES WOULD IMPROVE THE TLT GROUP'S ONLINE SESSIONS? "DELEGATED LEARNER" OR "VOICE OF THE LEARNER", "LEARNER REPRESENTATIVE" OR "MODEL LEARNER" "SURROGATE LEARNER" "VISIBLE LEARNER" "REPRESENTATIVE LEARNER" - Someone who has NOT already learned how to use the tool/resource who goes through the process live, in public, asking questions, showing false starts, willing to reveal mistakes,"all learning is about beginning", keeps the teacher SLOW enough so that others can also be going through the first-time learning experience and actually using the tool/resource at least once with at least some success ... asks questions that others probably want to ask... but are either reluctant or unable (can't get microphone) to ask for themselves. Look for this workshop in 2013: Demysifying Accreditation
	Colleges Doing Creative Things to Stay Alive FridayLive! Dec14 2pm ET Free to all Register in advance
Join our Experiment	Members Only Experiment Learn in Real Time - How to Create a Google Form, Dec 13 2pm ET, Members Only, Register in advance Leaders: Gloria Hofer and Beth Dailey Google Forms can easily be used to collect feedback from participants in an online session. Follow along as Gloria Hofer, Instructional Technology Resource Specialist, at  Santa Clara University teaches Beth Dailey, Designated Learner or Honored Idiot, how to create a Google Form.  This is especially designed for those who have absolutely NO previous experience with this tool).  - Follow along yourself and create your own Google Form survey, etc. - ask questions as we go along live.
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Painfully funny re core standards: Read “Recommended Levels of Insulation" to/with your kids. Clothe the emperor!

It might be time to pay attention to the growing role - and potential unintended consequences - of Common Core Standards. Meanwhile, if you like to read, see "The Common Core’s 70 percent nonfiction standards and the end of reading?" By Alexandra Petri , Updated: December 7, 2012 [Spoiler alert: watch for irony in the article, even in the excerpts below.]  Also see: Clothing the Emperor


"New Common Core standards (which impact 46 out of 50 states) will require that, by graduation in 2014, 70 percent of books studied be nonfiction. Some suggested texts include 'FedViews' by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA’s 'Recommended Levels of Insulation,' and 'Invasive Plant Inventory' by California’s Invasive Plant Council.

...I like reading. I love reading. ...And it’s all because, as a child, my parents took the time to read me 'Recommended Levels of Insulation.'"

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Experiments w TAs, peer-grading in MOOCs - Coursera - elsewhere? PREP FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv

Excerpts below from "Coursera looks to harness the free labor of its devotees...Wielding 'Power Users'" by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed, November 29, 2012

"..experiments in various MOOCs that seek to deputize certain students into the company’s instructional model. Professors have begun recruiting “community TAs” (teaching assistants) from its class rolls based on a combination of academic performance and activity in online discussion forums. 'This has been piloted out only in a couple classes so far, and we're still working on figuring out what works best before rolling this out more broadly,' says Andrew Ng, one of the co-founders of Coursera.
"The company is still feeling out what should qualify students to be TAs and what sort of administrative privileges they should get. The models have differed across courses, says Caporale-Berkowitz, but the most promising so far has been in a course on Probabilistic Graphic Models, taught by Daphne Koller, one of Coursera’s co-founders. That course has been held twice; the second time around, Koller selected 18 high-performing participants from the previous iteration who had also been active on the forums and appointed them community TAs.
In addition to an icon next to their posts in the discussion forums identifying them as TAs (as well as flags on discussion threads to which they have made contributions), those 18 students also had an exclusive channel to Coursera’s administrative team.
"The idea is to give these power users 'the sense that they’re contributing and helping build this with us,' says Caporale-Berkowitz. And there could be more perks in the future, he says. The company could grant TAs special certificates of achievement indicating that they have learned the content well enough to help teach it. As for courses with a peer-grading component, feedback from users who have 'shown proficiency in grading the way the professor might have graded' may get extra weight, says Caporale-Berkowitz."

More...

Marcus notes1 “Univs suffering from near-fatal 'cost disease'..is Tech the Answer” HELPFUL PREP FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv

Below find Jane Marcus' notes from Bowen's Lecture 1: "Universities suffering from near-fatal 'cost disease'... the current higher education model is untenable." The Productivity Problem in Higher Education, from  Tanner Lecture series "The 'Cost Disease' in Higher Education: Is Technology the Answer?"  

These notes are helpful prep for "MOOCs Reconsidered"  TLT Group's weekly online FridayLive! session 2pm ET, Dec 7, 2012. Free ONLINE reg: tlt.gs/frlv   Pls join us.
3rd open discussion with sMOOChers about our shared experience in the MOOC Current/Future State of Higher Education, and our recommendations, insights, concerns based on work with other MOOCs.

Bowen described education, especially higher education, as a “labor intensive industry” which, like the performing arts, doesn’t allow productivity gains where productivity is the ratio of outputs to the inputs used to produce them.

More notes...

13 Useful Questions re MOOCs frame Marcus’ Notes from Stanford “Unconference,” HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv

Pls join "MOOCs Reconsidered" in TLT Group's weekly online FridayLive! session 2pm ET, Dec 7, 2012.   Free ONLINE reg: tlt.gs/frlv   
3rd open discussion with sMOOChers about our shared experience in the MOOC Current/Future State of Higher Education, and our recommendations, insights, concerns based on work with other MOOCs.

Jane Marcus’ notes from Stanford IT community's  second annual Unconference, a day-long event geared toward building community among Stanford’s IT professionals. Notes are in the form of comments in response to 13 helpful questions when considering the future of MOOCs.  The event is sponsored by schools, departments, and administrative units across the University. 

The day began with a panel discussion about new developments in educational technology. Moderated by Bill Clebsch, Stanford’s Associate Vice President for IT Services, the panel included:

• John Mitchell, Vice Provost for Online Learning, Professor of Computer Science
• Rob Reich, Director of the Program on Ethics in Society, Associate Professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, of Education and of Philosophy
• Garth Saloner, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Yoav Shoham, Professor of Computer Science

The panelists, all involved in various Stanford learning experiments, offered their takes on many of the issues and concepts addressed in the Tanner series. A summary of their remarks follows as comments in response to 13 good questions:

1.  How revolutionary will online learning be?

- feels like we are at the tipping point

- potential to democratize education

2.  What shouldn’t change?

Marcus recommends almost 30 recent pubs (comments, analyses) re MOOCs: HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv

Pls join "MOOCs Reconsidered" in TLT Group's weekly online FridayLive! session 2pm ET, Dec 7, 2012.   Free ONLINE reg: tlt.gs/frlv   
3rd open discussion with sMOOChers about our shared experience in the MOOC Current/Future State of Higher Education, and our recommendations, insights, concerns based on work with other MOOCs.

Jane Marcus’ recommendations of recent publications (comments, analyses) re MOOCs, preparatory for online discussion 12/7/2012 - numbering is only for reference and does not indicate priority or ranking of these resources:

1. The Year of the MOOC - New York Times
2. MOOC Brigade: Who Is Taking Massive Open Online Courses, And Why? -TIME
3. MOOC Brigade: Will Massive, Open Online Courses Revolutionize Higher Education? - TIME
4. Taking The Next Step in Online Education With Credit Equivalency - FORBES
5. Elite schools’ popular online courses have scaled up delivery, but can they scale up credit? – Washington Post
6. A shakeup of higher education – Boston Globe
7. New frontier for scaling up online classes: credit – Associated Press
8. Online-education trend expands – USA Today
9. Warming Up to MOOC’s – Chronicle of Higher Education
10. Good MOOC’s, Bad MOOC’s – Chronicle of Higher Education
11. What Are 'MOOC's and Why Are Education Leaders Interested in Them? – Huffington Post
12. MOOC Provider edX Partners with Community Colleges to Improve Workforce Readiness – Forbes
13. Massive Open Online Courses a learning revolution – South China Morning Post
14. Gates Will Fund $1.4 Million Research Project to Study MOOC-powered Courses at U of Maryland – Huffington Post
15. MOOC Skeptisicm Persists Among University Presidents Despite Massive Growth of Online Courses in 2012 – Huffington Post
16. The Big Three, at a Glance - New York Times
17. A Class Where Opening Minds, Not Earning Credits, Is the Point – New York Times
18. College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All – New York Times
19. MOOC Brigade: Can Online Courses Keep Students from Cheating? - TIME
20. How In-Person Meetups Are Fixing The Problem With MOOCs - Edudemic
21. Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - New York Times
22. If You’ve Got the Skills, She’s Got the Job - New York Times
23. Professor Keith Devlin on Teaching His First MOOC – Technapex
24. Got MOOC? – Huffington Post
25. To MOOC or Not to MOOC? – Inside HigherEd
26. MOOChing your way through remedial courses – University of Wisconsin/Raquet
27. Can schools survive in the age of the web? - BBC
28. Faculty Senate grapples with the possibilities and challenges of online learning - Stanford Report

J. Marcus’ Letter to sMOOChers re recent reports/analyses re MOOCs (comments, links) HELPFUL PREP FOR FRLV 12/7 2pmET #TLTGfrlv

"The 'Cost Disease' in Higher Education: Is Technology the Answer?" Summary of this Stanford lecture series and other helpful resources included as text or links below.  Provided by Jane Marcus as contribution to and in response to sMOOChers recent activities.
[sMOOChers = Smart Massive Open Online Courses Higher Education Research Subgroup  #tltgSMOOCHERS ]
Pls join "MOOCs Reconsidered" in TLT Group's FridayLive!
2pm ET, Dec 7, 2012.   Free ONLINE reg: tlt.gs/frlv   
3rd open discussion with sMOOChers about our shared experience in the MOOC Current/Future State of Higher Education, and our recommendations, insights, concerns based on work with other MOOCs.

Links to resources mentioned in Marcus' Letter (text below)

• "Online technologies are shaking up the Farm's classrooms—and the University's worldview. Higher education may never be the same," by Theresa Johnston, Stanford for All, September/October 2012 
• Tanner Lecture series 

•  "The 'Cost Disease' in Higher Education: Is Technology the Answer?" article upon which Prof. Bowen based his remarks

• Lecture 1: "Universities suffering from near-fatal 'cost disease'... the current higher education model is untenable." The Productivity Problem in Higher Education, Stanford Report, October 12, 2012

• Lecture 2: "At Stanford, scholars debate the promises, pitfalls of online learning," - Prospects for an Online Fix: Can we Harness Technology in the Service of our Aspirations? Stanford Report, October 15, 2012

• Unconference, a day-long event geared toward building community among Stanford’s IT professionals. 
• Education’s Digital Future

Jane Marcus' Letter to the sMOOChers*: