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Information Fluency&

Personal Learning Environments

Prompt 1For the class you are working on during this iTeach and/or a class you have taught online in the past:

•How do you facilitate contributions from students?

•How do you facilitate contributions between students?

•How do you facilitate your students' engagement with their communities outside of class, with friends, peers, and/or the world?

Prompt 2For yourself as an instructor, learner and/or enthusiast/hobbyist:

Collect – Where/How do you store, note, remember, and gather information such as: resources, photos, videos, and links?

Connect – Where/how do you interact with fellow faculty, solve problems with the assistance of peers, communicate with students, ask questions of the hive mind, and receive help/pity/mercy?

Reflect - Where do you evaluate, analyze, contemplate, consider, process, work out ideas, and propose thoughts?

Share - How do you share stories, results, papers, products, discoveries?

Alec Couros (http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/)

Jared Stein (http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/)

Jeremy Hiebert’s (http://headspacejblog.blogspot.com/)

D’Arcy Norman (http://www.darcynorman.net/)