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Daniel Christian added 2 blog posts
October 31
Daniel Christian commented on Reid Cornwell's blog post 'Unpaid Advertising'
Reid -- If you were referring to one of my recent postings, you're mistaken. I don't mean to promote any particular person or company. Rather, the idea of customized, personalized learning is what I was trying to get at. If we can do this with mus...
September 18
Daniel Christian added a blog post
September 10
Tadeusz Lemańczyk commented on Daniel Christian's blog post 'Watch out! The Disruptive Impact of Technology'
Thanks a lot! As a matter of fact it's not only a blog ( http://fedcba.ning.com/profiles/blog/list ) but above all it's one ( http://fedcba.ning.com/forum ) of the WWW discussion forums {by the way, degenerated (I don't know why) by James Morrison...
August 17
Daniel Christian commented on Daniel Christian's blog post 'Watch out! The Disruptive Impact of Technology'
Thanks Tadeusz -- and I subscribed to your blog. The world is shrinking quickly, and I like this idea of having students collaborate across the world.
August 17
Tadeusz Lemańczyk commented on Daniel Christian's blog post 'Watch out! The Disruptive Impact of Technology'
I love that disruption {Multilingual Studies at a Distance. Students and Academics of All Countries, Unite! :-) [ http://fedcba.ning.com/ ]}!
August 14
Daniel Christian added a blog post
I gave a presentation the other day to various teachers throughout K-8. I thought that I'd share it with anyone who might be interested in helping their school, school district, college, university, --- or any organization really -- see how disrup...
August 14
Daniel Christian commented on Steve Knode's blog post 'The "Shift Index"'
Thanks Steve -- I just subscribed to your EIT Newsletter. Thanks for your work in this area.
August 4
Daniel Christian commented on Steve Knode's blog post 'The "Shift Index"'
One more follow-up comment: If an organization doesn't have a visionary on its decision-making board, it will sink quickly from here on out. Visionaries who understand the disruptive impact of technology need to have a seat at the table.
July 29
Daniel Christian commented on Steve Knode's blog post 'The "Shift Index"'
Thanks for this posting Steve! I have been involved with introducing technologies for years -- at Fortune 500 companies as well as in the world of higher education. Wherever I go, I find incredible forces of inertia out there. Many people are very...
July 29
Janet Fortune commented on Daniel Christian's blog post 'The dangers of the status quo'
Your (long!) discussion/plan reveals more about your interests than awareness of student needs or knowledge of the disciplines. Specifically, two comments - you say content should be offered in many media etc so that students can choose what suits...
July 19
Daniel Christian added 2 blog posts
July 16
Daniel Christian commented on Steve Knode's blog post 'Disruptive Technology'
Thanks Steve for this posting -- I was fortunate to find this blog today. I work in higher education. You mentioned the word "disruptive"...and what is unnerving to me is that I don't see the required alarm in most of our institutions of higher e...
July 15
Daniel Christian added a photo to the album 'Specializing'
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July 15
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Daniel Christian added 2 blog posts
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Profile Information

What are your current professional responsibilities?
Multimedia Specialist at Calvin College
Manage the Teaching & Learning Digital Studio
Manage the Smart Classroom Projects
Do you have a personal Web site? If so, what is the URL?
http://www.calvin.edu/~dsc8/
Why are you interested in joining Innovate-Ideagora?
I appreciate the discussions re: integrating technology into the classrooms.
What do you think are the most pressing issues/challenges in using technology to enhance the educational process?
Higher education is vastly underestimating the disruptive impacts of technology. Major change is on the way. The tidal waves are already hitting the beaches, with more to come by year end.

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If this catches on...

For those of us working in higher education (and perhaps K-12 as well):

We are most definitely in a game-changing environment. Looking at the beta version of odijoo.com...if this type of infrastructure/paradigm were successful and we play this out into the future a bit...it's mind-blowing! Syndicated online courses...matching up buyers and sellers of courses via online-based exchanges...creating a platform for distributing one's -- or… Continue

Posted on October 31, 2009 at 4:31pm —

Daniel Christian

Creating a learning ecosystem

A new model of teaching & learning: Let's offer our students a personalized, customized, learning ecosystem

Education is moving towards providing much more customized, personalized learning environments – environments whereby the student selects and utilizes their preferred means of learning. Students will need to be able to continually know where to go to get information in the future. This idea aims at helping them in their never-ending quest for obtaining effective, lifelong, lear… Continue

Posted on October 31, 2009 at 4:00pm —

Daniel Christian

A thought along the lines of 1:1 and Personalized Learning Environments...

Posted on September 10, 2009 at 11:30am —

Daniel Christian

Watch out! The Disruptive Impact of Technology

The other day, I gave a presentation entitled "Watch out! The Disruptive Impact of Technology" to various teachers throughout K-8 here in the Grand Rapids, MI area. I thought that I'd share it with anyone who might be interested in helping their school, school district, college, university, --- or any organization really -- see how disruptive technology can be. The title comes from the… Continue

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Daniel Christian

The dangers of the status quo



As I stated on my website back on 4/16/09, in regards to the following article:

GM Has To Ditch Its Dealers -- from The Big Money by Matthew DeBord
Reuters i… Continue

Posted on July 16, 2009 at 4:15pm — 1 Comment

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At 10:38am on July 30, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Daniel,

With your work in Technology and Multimedia for Calvin College, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording you might find of interest.

At 9:05am on July 18, 2009, Denise Easton said…
Dear Daniel,

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and say welcome -- I see that you have jumped right in and are sharing what you are doing.

Ideagora's success will come form the creative energy of it's members. Please take a few minutes to send out invitations to join us by using the invite tab. Share Ideagora with your associates, other networks or listservs. Our goal is to emerge as an adaptative marketplace for projects and solutions.

I look forward to connecting and collaborating with you.

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