Welcome to Week 2: Personalization 

We have a lot of exciting announcements for you.  Please read this thoroughly as it has important information. Thanks! 

Our co-facilitators are participating throughout the course (you can learn more about them by clicking on "Meet the Team" on the left menu) .  However, this week Nancy Copeland, Greg Marten, Kara Sevensma, and Andrew Vanden Heuvel are taking lead on facilitating the topic

of Personalization.  You'll see some great information, questions and responses from them in

the Personalization Discussion Forum (in Week/Module 2).  And, most notably, they are

hosting a live Twitter Chat from 7-8PM EST on Thursday, October 17.  If you are

unfamiliar with how to Twitter Chat, you can watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWtiOPe4-I) or read this blog (http://janetfouts.com/how-to-participate-in-a-tweet-chat/).  

Some of you have asked about getting your badges.  The pre- and post-survey badges are

given automatically when you complete the survey.  In addition to providing feedback on

your discussion posts, we are also providing feedback as you work on your other five

badges.  That means it doesn't happen automatically for those badges right after you submit.

We try to grade ASAP so that you can get your badges, but thanks for your patience as you

wait.

Uploading your picture to the roster has been a little bit of a challenge for some of you.

Please see the "General Discussion Forum" on the main course homepage as we have

started a thread on this topic.

Please reserve the "General Discussion Forum" on the main homepage for general

discussion.  Many of you posted your consume or create for "Connected Learning" under

the General forum instead of in the Connected Learning Forum in Week/Module 1.  Each

week has its own discussion forum located in that Module.  For this week, please post your

Personalization comments (consume, create, etc.) under the Week/Module 2 Personalization

discussion forum.  

We're hoping you've had a chance to go in and review everyone's work in the Connected

Learning Discussion Forum.  If not, feel free to do so as you will learn a lot!  Listed below are

things we've learned from week 1.

• Discussions on the forum explored providing students with: a) learning experiences that foster notions of ownership; b) a sense of voice; and c)+ expanded learning communities. "What the Heck is a Teachpreneur?"  seemed to also be a popular article with many participants finding themselves inspired to take this learning to their classrooms.  
• Delicious was a popular tool and we hope you continue to explore how you might use this resource in your classroom. Also, just a reminder, you can follow our Delicious account (http://d.me/k12techcourses) for additional resources and digital tools.   If you have your own Delicious account and want to tag a link you think we will find interesting, please tag it with #k12techteaching
• Many of you are also now following us on Twitter (@k12techcourses) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/educationtech.courses) as well as this Blog (http://k12techcourses.blogspot.com/). We will continue to use these social media outlets to update you on course events.