Open Learning Communities
ACTIVITY:
Your students are completing a community project where they are asked to solve a community problem by presenting their idea to the city town council.
You are considering ways that students can document evidence of their learning and thinking so that others can see the process behind their project . Your school district has an ePortfolio software tool, but the students want to share their learning with the public.
Questions:
- After skimming through some of the open activities on #CLMOOC and #DS106, what could your class do to connect with others globally to learn more about your community?
- How would you create a Global Community project?
An open, collaborative, knowledge building learning and sharing experience
Digital Storytelling (also affectionately known as ds106) is an open, online course that happens at various times throughout the year at the University of Mary Washington… but you can join in whenever you like and leave whenever you need. This course is free to anyone who wants to take it, and the only requirements are a real computer, a hardy internet connection, preferably a domain of your own and some commodity web hosting, and all the creativity you can muster.
In August-December 2013, we ran an experimental open version of ds106 where… THERE WAS NO TEACHER! What? How is that possible? Learn more about the idea for Headless ds106 and how it planned out including an unexpected group collaboration for the story of GIFACHROME.