Tag: MOOC Reflections

Google Maps and Google Earth MOOC – lots of new things to learn!

This is fun! I am finishing up the first week of Google’s Maps and Earth MOOC. Here is the link to the map I am working on for the Week 1 assignment: Vinegar Hill Cafe – the HEART of Charlottesville This map highlights the Vinegar Hill Cafe in the Jefferson School City Center and shows…

June 17, 2013
MOOC Experiences – my storytelling approach using WordPress and Twitter

I will continue to use WordPress and Twitter as my chosen social media tools for reflecting on my MOOC learning. I have enjoyed my experiences as a MOOC student in several courses, and I am looking forward to those to come. It was apparent to me from the beginning, however, that

May 28, 2013
Week 10 – Know Thyself | An end but also a beginning

Thank you, Professor Green and all those at UVa who worked so hard to produce this superb MOOC! This is my final post for this course, but just the beginning of the newest “me” …

May 13, 2013
Week 9 – Know Thyself | Maybe dementia has no “self” to steal

Today I am fine, and I will enjoy this moment! If we have no “selves” to lose, perhaps living in the present rather than dwelling on the past

May 6, 2013
Week 8 – Know Thyself | My Scores | Different lives or different persons?

Sometimes it seems to me that I have been a very different different person at different times. — Or have I just lived several different lives? There is much food for thought in the lectures for this week! I do have memory links

April 28, 2013
Week 7 – Know Thyself | OF COURSE chocolate is good for you

I have to admit that I love chocolate! As Professor Green was talking about confirmation bias, I kept thinking of my friends’ jokes about my knack of finding all available reports of health benefits for things that I especially like – especially chocolate.

April 19, 2013