Welcome to the new view of the GEDI Scholar course site!
In the spirit of demonstrating a variety of ways to use technology tools to spark student collaboration and engagement, we wanted to show you how easy it is to embed a free tool into Scholar. Previously, we asked you to use the "Forums" tool for collegial eConversation, and now we invite you to use the course blogger tool to generate collegial dialogue, announcements, posting of links, and so forth.
This blogger tool is one in the Google suite, so you should have (or will receive) an email invite to participate via your gmail. We are using this tool to create an open course blog. (This is a different use of a blog tool than Dr. C talked about in seminar, and we'll chat about the different intent and purpose.) All of you will be authors (once you accept your gmail invitation), and that allows you to both post and comment as much and as often as you would like.
You'll note that over on the right are some widgets. The first is a "Seminar Announcements" text box. Adam and I will use that to remind you of any important last minute "stuff" for seminar, etc. We have also brought in RSS feeds from several things you may already read, or if not, might want to think about perusing.
This entire section on this left side will be for all of us to eEngage and eConverse with each other. It becomes an ongoing, archived conversation, so you can always go back to a previous post, even if it has disappeared from view. If a colleague posts something, please feel free to have an ongoing conversation via the "comments" tool. And, any time you wish to start another strand of conversation, just create a post, and do so. The purpose of the course blog is to foster engagement beyond the seminar meetings. So, whether you want to pick up on and expand a conversation that occurred in seminar, start a new conversation, or post announcements and info for your colleagues, this is where you can do that. Active engagement is encouraged and smiled upon and we all benefit when we tap into our collective, interdisciplinary wisdom, so step right up and jump into the course blog conversation!
By way of example for posting additional links that some of your colleagues might find useful, here is the link to the Chronicle of Higher Education article, "Let's Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity," that is located as a PDF in the Resource folder for this week. This non-PDF version gives you access to the commentary the article generated. (You should be able to view it, thanks to our library subscription, via VT-wireless.)
See you in seminar!
Shelli & Adam
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