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Start At The End And Go Backwards To The Beginning




What's the difference between "regular" learning and "jumpstart" learning?

For me, regular learning is starting at a chosen beginning and proceeding to an expected end while "jumpstarting" is starting at an anticipated end and going backwards to the logical beginning of that end.

Jumpstarting is doing what Steven Covey advised in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: it's beginning with the end in mind.

When I started posting resources for this course, LearnHub was just beginning. I came into LearnHub, probably much like you, to experiment a bit. I was looking to see if I could meet some new people thinking in new ways about online learning... and to see how much fun I could have turning UPSIDE DOWN some traditional ideas about instructional design.

I can hardly remember what it felt like back in early March, poking tentatively around, trying not to break things or step on toes, wishing I knew more about HTML as I started putting up lessons, wondering who was out there and if anyone was interested.

Close to 90 days have come and gone and 32 people I would never have met face-to-face are enrolled in "Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career." Literally thousands of people have read and commented on one or more of the lessons in the course without enrolling in the whole course. Many have invited me to join their courses. And I have!

I continue to learn a lot with every new lesson I post. And I'm making friends with people that I can't wait to meet in person, one day soon.

I don't know about you, but I'm finding this teaching-and-learning thing
here at LearnHub utterly engaging, as well as a LOT OF FUN.




CELEBRATION TIME!

I'm thinking it's time to offer you who enrolled in the course (and anyone else reading this lesson who wants to join in, too) a chance to get together LIVE online in a free WiZiQ virtual classroom.

I'd like to use the time to explore 3 questions together:

1. As you've engaged with the course materials, what have you found most valuable? Why?

2. What have you noticed you're doing differently as a result of engaging with the course content and with the other people engaging around it?

3. What have you  taught someone else lately online?

There is terrific variety among the people who have signed up to jumpstart your online teaching careers here at LearnHub! Every one of you has enriched my thinking and I would like for all of us to have a chance to hear each others' voices and stories so we can ground our asynchronous meetings at least ONCE in real time. I'm expecting we'll learn something by meeting in a live forum that we can't learn any other way.


SO, ARE YOU GAME?

Then reserve 60 minutes in your calendar at 1pm PST on Friday, May 30th.

Use this site to find your LOCAL time.




WE'LL MEET IN A FREE WIZIQ VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

If you're not already a member of WiZiQ, to participate, you'll need to sign up for a free membership. It's easy to sign up.

Then, use this link to go straight to the session at 1pm PST on Friday, May 30th.

You'll need a microphone hooked into your computer if you want to speak (and I hope you will). Or, if not, you can use the text chat to share your thoughts. 

I'll have some slides up and a cup of coffee in hand at 1pm PST, on Friday, May 30th.

Meet you there! 

I'm really looking forward to some live learning with you! 

Meri (aka MAWSTOOLS)
tolteca
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tolteca said:

I signed up for the class and have been occupied with other parte of the new and old web. Have fun talking but I am more of an oldfashioned learner by trial and error. I keep jumpstarting over and over in this new web.

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ProfSegal said:

Can it be archived for those of us who are unable to meet online on the 30th?

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