Experienced open educators, what is one thing you wish someone had told you back when you were first exploring and trying open pedagogy and/or oer?
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Replying to @mburtis
I think for open pedagogy, use a small toolset. You can throw in one new technology and if you're charismatic two. But students do better exploring the creative potential of a couple tools across different problems rather than the perfect tool for each problem.
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Replying to @holden
Such good advice. Less overwhelming for faculty. Less overwhelming for students.
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Replying to @mburtis
I think this was partially something I learned from you & UMW -- like there's ZERO WAY lots of the stuff you did should have been using WordPress in any logically parseable way. But better to kludge something together than force students to learn three different environments.
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And it's more empowering too! Students learn that when they want to solve a thingamabob problem they don't need a thingamabob software environment. They can be creative.
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I put together an entire class once with a teacher where the only tool was a shared pinboard account. The instructor was like "So you know John McCain. Think of my level of tech savvy as John McCain. Maybe less."
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So we talked and we came up with this idea where the students would publish abstracts on various articles and I said, let's do Wordpress, but it was overwhelming. So I showed her
@Pinboard and said do you think your students could blog in this, and she said yes, so we did it.2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
You can talk about other tech! I'm just gratified to hear stories about the site being useful; it is very satisfying to know people find it a help in their lives
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