Gandhi's "Seven Blunders of the World" That Lead to Violence ...Plus 6
Activity developed and revised by Steven W. Gilbert, TLT Group.
See: http://www.tltgroup.org/GandhisList.htm
Welcome your suggestions, etc. about how and when to use this Brief Hybrid Workshop and/or the eClip within it.
Pls click on "comments" or "post a comment" just below this posting to leave your suggestions for the TLT Group's Online Professional Development Workshops about educational uses of blogs, wikis, feeds, .... Web 2.0 + Social Networking
See more detail than you probably want or need about how to ensure we receive your comment/suggestion at the very end of this posting in italics.
Thanks,
Steve Gilbert
NOTE: MORE DETAIL THAN YOU PROBABLY WANT OR NEED
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Virginia Tech Tragedy - Resources, Responses - "Learning Cures Sadness" (90 seconds MP3)
1. Request from Sally Gilbert of TLT Group for resources in response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech this week; and
2. "Learning Cures Sadness" - Response from Steve Gilbert
Also see: Link to Web page for FridayLive! special session "Staying Sane - in Insane Times."
Email message from Sally Gilbert:
"We're all struggling to understand what happened at Virginia Tech this week and to do whatever we can to support our friends at Virginia Tech...
"We've started a web page to compile resources to share and which might also be helpful to others. http://www.tltgroup.org/VaTechresources.htm
"If you have something you'd like us to add to the webpage, please send it to Sally Gilbert
sallygilbert@tltgroup.org"
Or add your contribution (comment, question, reference or resource) as a comment to this posting - click on "comments" at the bottom of this posting, below. You do NOT need to have a Blogger account. You are welcome to add your name and contact information if you wish.
Steve Gilbert's response to Sally's request: "Learning Cures Sadness"
Here is one of my favorite quotations - about "Learning Cures Sadness." As one of Merlyn’s responsibilities for raising the boy who is destined to become the king of England, he advises the young King Arthur about coping with frustration and sadness. From T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Berkeley Medallion Edition, July, 1966, page 183.
For audio-narrated QuickTime version click here.
(Click here to download free QuickTime player.) There may be some delay while the file downloads. If nothing happens AFTER the slideshow appears on your screen, find and click on the "play" button beneath the slider control - beneath the slides.
See below for other media options. Here's the text:
"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn.
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn--pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics--why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing.
After that you can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough.'"
2. "Learning Cures Sadness" - Response from Steve Gilbert
Also see: Link to Web page for FridayLive! special session "Staying Sane - in Insane Times."
Email message from Sally Gilbert:
"We're all struggling to understand what happened at Virginia Tech this week and to do whatever we can to support our friends at Virginia Tech...
"We've started a web page to compile resources to share and which might also be helpful to others. http://www.tltgroup.org/VaTechresources.htm
"If you have something you'd like us to add to the webpage, please send it to Sally Gilbert
sallygilbert@tltgroup.org"
Or add your contribution (comment, question, reference or resource) as a comment to this posting - click on "comments" at the bottom of this posting, below. You do NOT need to have a Blogger account. You are welcome to add your name and contact information if you wish.
Steve Gilbert's response to Sally's request: "Learning Cures Sadness"
Here is one of my favorite quotations - about "Learning Cures Sadness." As one of Merlyn’s responsibilities for raising the boy who is destined to become the king of England, he advises the young King Arthur about coping with frustration and sadness. From T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Berkeley Medallion Edition, July, 1966, page 183.
For audio-narrated QuickTime version click here.
(Click here to download free QuickTime player.) There may be some delay while the file downloads. If nothing happens AFTER the slideshow appears on your screen, find and click on the "play" button beneath the slider control - beneath the slides.
See below for other media options. Here's the text:
"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn.
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn--pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics--why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing.
After that you can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough.'"
Choose Among 5 Versions:
These were produced almost automatically via LecShare Pro - which synchronizes MS PowerPoint slides with audio files - and YouTube and iTunes. Full audio is less than 5 minutes.
QuickTime Version (Click here to download free QuickTime player.)
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You may experience some delay while the file downloads - time depends on speed of your Internet connection, etc.
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If you do not see a slider control just beneath the slides, try a full-screen view option in your browser.
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The slider control permits you to start/pause, skip a slide, etc.
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If nothing happens AFTER the slideshow appears on your screen, see if there is another "play" button beneath the slider control. If there is, click on that "play" button to start the slideshow!
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Just right of the slider control a slide title is usually displayed. If you click on that title you should see a list of all slide titles. You can click on ANY of those titles listed. Doing so will re-start the slideshow at the slide with the title you have selected.
YouTube Version (VERY similar to QuickTime version!); runs automatically on the YouTube Web site.
HTML Version
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To see all of the controls and options you might need to scroll down or you may need Full Screen view from your browser.
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You can and must control movement from one slide to the next or previous.
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To hear the audio for a slide, click on "play".
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This version may be the most useful for those who are dependent on using screen reader software.
MP3 Version
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Audio only. Useful for creating podcasts.
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You may experience some delay while the file downloads - time depends on speed of your Internet connection, etc.
MS Word Version
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No audio
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Suitable for printing - pictures of each slide.
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Includes "lecture notes" - if any - embedded within PowerPoint slides by leader/presenter
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Intended for reference or for writing notes while listening/watching some other version. Can write notes online via MS Word (or browser editing software?) or can print and write notes by hand.
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Note that the images of each slide that appear in the Word document are pictures. They cannot be edited in the same ways that PowerPoint slides or Word text documents can be edited. Distributing only this version may ensure that any user will include citations, copyright info that appears on original slides and not change any slides - avoids potential for distortion or misrepresentation.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
FridayLive! Google Docs & Spreadsheets [5 min. audio attached; slides also avail]
Join us for FridayLive! Demo/Discussion of Educational Uses of Google Docs & Spreadsheets 2pm EST Friday, March 9, 2007. For free-but-required advance registration,
click here.
For more info, including several alternative versions of the 5-minute intro/prep workshop, and some additional resources and guidelines for using Google Docs,
click here.
Recommendation: Try Google Docs!! Watch/listen/use the 5-minute intro [preparatory] workshop created by Cindy Russell esp. for this event!
Why bother? Easy to use. Reliable, accessible. Good for joint planning, collaborative work. Many potential educational uses - esp. well-suited for student collaborative projects.
The following lists of features are intended to help you decide how to use this free resource most effectively. Please suggest additional items for these lists of Advantages, Educational Uses, or Disadvantages by clicking on "comments" or "post a comment" just below this posting.
Advantages: Free and relatively easy Web-based tool for creating and collaboratively editing documents online. Resulting documents are similar to wikis, blogs, but easier to edit and share, publish or hide. With Google Docs, previous versions of the document are always accessible and it is easy to see who made which changes. However, the most easily visible version is the aggregation of all previous changes, completely hiding the process by which it was developed. First time users can be assured that they do not need to worry about making mistakes - no matter what they do, the favorite contributions of each collaborator are always still accessible and can be retrieved and displayed elsewhere or re-integrated into the document. It is relatively painless to establish the online account required for active participation. There seems to be no inappropriate use of the info that must be given to obtain the account. Google's financial success makes it likely that documents created by using this service will not disappear and neither will the service.
Educational uses: Many. Especially nice for student teams in which someone is likely to worry that his/her contributions will not be matched by comparable work done by each team member. At any time, anyone who has permission, can easily view previous versions and see who has made which contributions.
Disadvantages: This tool keeps improving but some functions still work with unpredictable delays. The results of some kinds of attempts to change formatting can also be difficult to predict. Many people who begin working on a Google Docs document for the very first time find it a little more challenging than ideal to understand and follow the directions that are automatically sent as part of an invitation to become a "collaborator" on a Google Docs document. Establishing another online account - with user name and password - is required for active participation.
NOTE: MORE DETAIL THAN YOU PROBABLY WANT OR NEED ABOUT ADDING A COMMENT
To be sure we receive your comment, click on one of the options below the box in which you entered your comment. Then type in the letters that you see in the weird script in the most obvious place - the "word verification" box. THEN CLICK ON "LOG IN AND PUBLISH" - DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE "LOG-IN" PART. You do NOT need to have a Blogger account to leave a comment. If you wish to comment anonymously, click in the circle to the left of that option. If you want to avoid getting a Blogger account, but want to indicate who you are, add your name and contact info WITHIN your "comment" and then choose the "anonymous" option.
For more info, including several alternative versions of the 5-minute intro/prep workshop, and some additional resources and guidelines for using Google Docs,
click here.
Recommendation: Try Google Docs!! Watch/listen/use the 5-minute intro [preparatory] workshop created by Cindy Russell esp. for this event!
Why bother? Easy to use. Reliable, accessible. Good for joint planning, collaborative work. Many potential educational uses - esp. well-suited for student collaborative projects.
The following lists of features are intended to help you decide how to use this free resource most effectively. Please suggest additional items for these lists of Advantages, Educational Uses, or Disadvantages by clicking on "comments" or "post a comment" just below this posting.
Advantages: Free and relatively easy Web-based tool for creating and collaboratively editing documents online. Resulting documents are similar to wikis, blogs, but easier to edit and share, publish or hide. With Google Docs, previous versions of the document are always accessible and it is easy to see who made which changes. However, the most easily visible version is the aggregation of all previous changes, completely hiding the process by which it was developed. First time users can be assured that they do not need to worry about making mistakes - no matter what they do, the favorite contributions of each collaborator are always still accessible and can be retrieved and displayed elsewhere or re-integrated into the document. It is relatively painless to establish the online account required for active participation. There seems to be no inappropriate use of the info that must be given to obtain the account. Google's financial success makes it likely that documents created by using this service will not disappear and neither will the service.
Educational uses: Many. Especially nice for student teams in which someone is likely to worry that his/her contributions will not be matched by comparable work done by each team member. At any time, anyone who has permission, can easily view previous versions and see who has made which contributions.
Disadvantages: This tool keeps improving but some functions still work with unpredictable delays. The results of some kinds of attempts to change formatting can also be difficult to predict. Many people who begin working on a Google Docs document for the very first time find it a little more challenging than ideal to understand and follow the directions that are automatically sent as part of an invitation to become a "collaborator" on a Google Docs document. Establishing another online account - with user name and password - is required for active participation.
NOTE: MORE DETAIL THAN YOU PROBABLY WANT OR NEED ABOUT ADDING A COMMENT
To be sure we receive your comment, click on one of the options below the box in which you entered your comment. Then type in the letters that you see in the weird script in the most obvious place - the "word verification" box. THEN CLICK ON "LOG IN AND PUBLISH" - DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE "LOG-IN" PART. You do NOT need to have a Blogger account to leave a comment. If you wish to comment anonymously, click in the circle to the left of that option. If you want to avoid getting a Blogger account, but want to indicate who you are, add your name and contact info WITHIN your "comment" and then choose the "anonymous" option.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
TEST [preview] Info about NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative
Fred Winter of NEH introduces several technology-related funding programs. Click here for MP3 file of interview 2/28/2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
Imagine Adding Face-to-Face to Online Educ. - Thought Experiment
Exciting "thought experiment":
Suppose all higher education were conducted online.
Now imagine how and why you would ADD face-to-face meetings.
- In what ways could you improve online education by creating new hybrid or blended options?
- What strategies would you recommend to teachers,students in this new combined environment?
- How could you best take advantage of both synchronous and asynchronous interaction?
- What different media might you use?
- In what ways would you encourage, support, or prevent students from multi-tasking?
- How does the concept of "band-width" influence your choices?
This activity was suggested by Doug Eder, Director of Univ. Evaluation, Arizona State Univ. during a telephone conference call 1/30/2007 involving about a dozen experts in various aspects of faculty and professional development for college teaching and learning.
Listen to Eder describe this idea informally via MP3 .
Image Maps - 2 Instructional Examples [MP3 Audio 40 secs]
Two samples of instructional use of image maps from John Prusch of Excelsior College:
1. For a course in phonetics, several linked Web pages enable the learner to HEAR sounds associated with phonetic symbols in a variety of configurations:
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/
linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html
2. A Page from the Babylonian Talmud: "Click on any portion of the …image, …[for] when and where the text was composed, its contents and purposes, …"
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudPage.html
Prusch comments: "Image maps are an under utilized but quick and easy tool to use in teaching. They provide a simple means for explaining, illustrating, or annotating difficult concepts, processes, and examples not only with text but also with images, video, and sound recordings." MP3 Audio Version
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
"Time is the only thing we have" Chickering on Balance, Intentionality [approx. 1 minute]
How Chickering tries to balance personal, family, professional commitments and self-nourishment by being very intentional about his own time. Response to one of opening questions on 1/30/2007.
MP3 File
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and widely used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
MP3 File
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and widely used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Chickering on Wonderful Wife, Marriage - 1/30/2007 [3 Mins. MP3]
A wonderful personal, family, and professional relationship! Chickering's closing response to "New Year's Resolution" questions on 1/30/2007. Value of working hard together on a marriage of 50+ years!
MP3 File
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
MP3 File
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
Cherish Failure... Chickering Response [30 Secs. MP3]
Cherish failure, be wary of success, suggests Art Chickering in response to "New Year's Resolution" questions on 1/30/2007.
MP3:
http://archive.tltgroup.org/2007/NewYearsResolutions
/ChickeringCherishFailure20070130.mp3
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
MP3:
http://archive.tltgroup.org/2007/NewYearsResolutions
/ChickeringCherishFailure20070130.mp3
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
Personal/Professional Perspective: Chickering Resists Dichotomy [Approx 1 minute MP3]
Art Chickering resists the dichotomy of personal & professional life. He also responds to "New Year's Resolution" questions on 1/30/2007 by citing Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, last stanza:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
Full text of poem (as of 1/30/2007) available at:
http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
Full text of poem (as of 1/30/2007) available at:
http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm
Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President, Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education... and many other important publications.
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