I'm so glad I get to do things like take classes in elearning and make a website and create computer artifacts for my online ePortfolio! Following are some reflections of my e-learning experience. I love this stuff! I get to write about education in color and with design and pictures! Thanks to UW-Stout and all the folks who supported me to get here! photo credit: Ruth Virginia Barton original artwork #gratitude #blog

Week of February 20, 2015 I’m really excited to be doing my eportfolio. This is the fun of pressing buttons and seeing results on the screen. And what’s more, they’re in color! I feel like my whole life has led up to this certification and this whole course has led up to this project. I’m thankful for all the kind words and support of my teachers, Sara Turansky and Paul Mugan. Their compassion has been evident in their teaching and communication styles. They have modeled

This week through the readings I learned a lot more about how cyberlearning is fostering inquiry-based, creative, and, yes, brain-based learning! It’s supporting curiosity, critical thinking, problem-solving, lifelong, and what is now called deeper learning (which just means higher-order thinking, to my mind). It’s learning by creating and doing. Very exciting! I see my precious brain-based learning as having infused online learning to the nth degree! In short, online le

The whole world fits on my computer screen now with Google Earth Pro! I visited my favorite place, Eastern Long Island, where I grew up. I went to my favorite beach and looked out at the waves. I recognized that most recognizable house there on the dunes. I followed the road from Main Beach into town and saw the tops of buildings and other places I've spent a lot of time in - the movies, the library, Town Pond. Talk about the World Wide Web making the whole world smaller!

Ooh, what a relief it is! I took full advantage of this week’s break from the really strenuous work and thoroughly enjoyed it. I also really enjoyed the readings and writings about accessible design. I have had friends and relatives who are blind or deaf or on the spectrum or ill and have had my own issues, so I can really relate to the compassion inherent in this study. It makes the accessibility of online learning really accessible. I absolutely loved Daniel’s response

​"Accessible Design" is a term I discovered on WebAIM.org (http://webaim.org/resources/ designers/); it seems a beautifully elegant term, does it not? Combining universal designwith accessibility (which I believe mean the same thing, please correct me if I'm wrong), accessible design just rolls off the tongue. It also sounds very like the subject we seem to be studying and, so, linguistically harmonious. Basically, we're talking about designing online programs that are ac