About
Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy is the personal and professional blogging space of Dr. Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. I created this space in early 2004 as I pondered the educational uses of blogging and podcasting. This space is a growing collection of personal reflections and resources related to teaching and learning, democratic media, critical media literacy, digital citizenship, openness, and social justice.
Welcome to this space, and I hope that you find my posts useful. I can be reached through a number of social tools (e.g., Skype, Facebook, IM), or via email at couros [at] gmail [dot] com.
Check out A2 in this week’s Sheaf. I wrote a piece on your presentation, and I’d be interested in hearing what you think. I hope I got the thrust of it. http://www.thesheaf.com
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[...] joined the second Elluminate session on Thursday morning (Australian time). Alec Couros’ presentation provided an excellent addition to the discussion about course design and gave me an [...]
Hi Alec,
Your kids are lovely! The lil’ one looks just like my daughter. She’s always sucking her thumb!
Nice blog!
Warm Wishes,
Jagdeep
[...] Jump to Comments Yesterday, Alec Couros was chatting about sense of wholeness. Late last night, I was blogging with Christina about [...]
[...] Open Course for Educators & Administrators: “Dr. Alec Couros is teaching a graduate course this fall titled Social Media & Open Education. Anyone can [...]
[...] is an open access graduate course from the Faculty of Education, University of Regina by Dr. Alec Couros. Although this courses is for credit, there is also an opportunity for participation from [...]
[...] Alec Couros put together a solid list of 90+Videos for Technology and Media Literacy, although he always is tweaking and adding. I use #11 (no, you have to go look for the title) in every one of my classes and it is one of the most powerful videos I have shown. It also demonstrates why screencasting can outdistance powerpoint. In addition, I find myself reviewing his Mashups, Stop Motion, Animation and Short Film section for my film class. [...]
[...] list of videos that someone has a clear purpose to gather and list. My favorite is the list that Alec Couros put together, 90+Videos for Technology and Media Literacy, although he always is tweaking so it [...]
[...] list of videos that someone has a clear purpose to gather and list. My favorite is the list that Alec Couros put together, 90+Videos for Technology and Media Literacy, although he always is tweaking so it [...]
[...] this semester is EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education from the University of Regina with Dr. Alec Couros that meets only every Tuesday evening (8-10pm CST). I first learned about this course through a few [...]
[...] I’m Back… I’m on my Rock. Posted on September 25, 2009 by ryanflood This blog space, which I once called my Ed. Tech Weblog, is about to become active again. Originally this space was created and used to blog and reflect about experiences that I have lived through my graduate studies in education technology. More specifically, the blog was created as part of my involvement with a network of educators that were studying together in E.C. & I. 831 with Dr. Alec Couros. [...]
[...] on my experiences in the University of Regina course eci831 (Social Media and Open Education) with Dr. Alec Couros. The music stings at the beginning and end are from Blind_Lemon_Jefferson_One_Dime_Blues (public [...]
[...] the list of presenters is our very own Alec Couros and Dean Shareski presenting “(Re)Imaging Social Media & Technology in Teacher [...]
[...] Last Thursday, I got the opportunity to go into Alec Couros ECMP 355 class and speak to his students about my experiences with using interactive white boards in [...]
Hi Alec
Fellow twitter(er). Alec althought i seldomly post I am follow our twitter group consistently. See your idea of open journal so looking forward to google finding and reposting. Would love to contribute. I will follow updates.
cheers
Alex, I was at your presentations at TRU this past weekend. Thank you for the many things i have learned. Excellent presentations, in my view. Could you send me the link to your class that started with the “horror” based movie clip. We are going to utilize this sort of idea (create a short clip) to begin a curriculum workshop at the end of the month,
hope this is not an unreasonable request,
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[...] keynote will be Alec Couros, Ph.D., who is an influential scholar and advocate of openness in distributed learning [...]
[...] keynote will be Alec Couros, Ph.D., who is an influential scholar and advocate of openness in distributed learning [...]
[...] Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, will serve as our co-director of Community Development with Robin Ellis this year. He will also be serving as a co-Community Leader for the ADVIS and Canadian cohorts. He is a kind, open teacher who shares freely with the rest of us. And, as Carey Pohanka said the first time she met him, “OMG he smells so good!” [...]
[...] Dr. Alec Couros , from the University of Regina, is the faculty who facilitated this open, online graduate course and I participated as a non-credit student during the Fall 2009. Although this course did not go towards any specific degree requirements for my Ph.D. program, it did influence my practice with social media as a learner, researcher, and educator. Along with other students (credit & non-credit), I was introduced to a myriad of #edtech topics, online resources, pioneers in the #edtech field (See ARCHIVED Fall 2009), and, of course, it helped build my personal learning network. [...]
[...] keynote will be Alec Couros, Ph.D., who is an influential scholar and advocate of openness in distributed learning [...]
[...] Couros, A. (n.d.). About. [Blog about section]. Retrieved from http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/about. [...]
[...] of our professors – Alec Couros – had been researching how social media can be used in the context of education for years. We [...]
[...] Bower replied almost immediately, suggested that I talk to Alec Couros who gave me a link to a great example of one of his pre-service teacher’s portfolio’s [...]
[...] Down the Walls: Towards a Model of Open Pedagogy» Alec Couros est un joyeux luron du Canada qui utilise la pédagogie ouverte à la Faculté d’Éducation [...]
[...] read lots of other blogs, many of which are mentioned in Silvia’s posts (e.g. Alec Couros, Dean Shareski, Linda Yollis, Jenny Luca, Rod Lucier, Kathleen Morris, Kim Cofino, Clarence [...]
[...] slower. Also, after following posts and musings from Alec Couros on ‘Open Technology’ (http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/about) and starting to read “Brandwashed” by Martin Lindstrom [...]
[...] INSTRUCTOR The instructor for the refresher is the fabulous Alec Couros. Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. You can find him on twitter @courosa or online at http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/about [...]