Mission Amy is a blog I follow for inspiration. It makes me want to do things. It makes me feel like moving, taking action. One of Amy’s questions to her community of readers was the following? What are your Do’s, Don’ts and Duhs? Here is the result she compiled and the present she gave back […]
Tag Archives: motivation
Planning Instruction – Don’t Forget the Basic Principles
Still on the topic on how to stomp our classes, this video from Dr. David Merrill is a reminder of what we really need to have effective instruction. With three basic principles, we can stomp it, but sometimes it seems we just forget it… I’m taking a very nice course on Instructional Design with professor […]
Drive – Self-directedness, Mastery and Purpose
I’ve just reached Daniel’s Pink book Drive toolkit, more like a catalyst to fuel our own drives. To wrap up the idea of the book, I can’t imagine a better way than relating it with my own context. I was thinking of my drive to exercise, for example. For many years, I’ve been exercising, on […]
Bazaar Type of Learning – A Directory to Get Started
Creative Commons License by langwitches We’re always in the search for effectiveness matched to an increase of learners’ motivation. Without losing the pedagogical purpose perspective, we can find wonderful online tools that will make our classes more enticing to learning, fun, and highly motivational. These tools can be adapted to fit our educational settings and […]
Still on Drive
Daniel Pink states “Greatness and nearsightedeness are incompatible”. He was making a point that in many cases, a carrots and sticks system leads to a short-sighted view of the world. People start focusing more on the rewards than in a broader sense of reality. You are into that addictive cycle of getting something back than […]
Our Drives
I´ve just started reading Daniel Pink´s latest book, now better than ever with the wonderful little gadget my dear friend Dennis Oliver gave me. During my 45-minute workout I can easily flip pages in my Kindle. Never has it been so pleasant to exercise in two such good companies, the book and my new digital […]
Edublogging with Passion
A friend of mine in Italy, Seth Dickens, has kindly asked me to talk a bit about edublogging. We had planned for an interview, but due to technical issues, we went for a recording. Edublogging… How many times have I written about it, gave tips, presented, and tried to inspire others? Fact is the ones […]