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Years ago at my previous school, I taught a digital storytelling class in which students had to explore narrative using a variety of digital tools.
July 15, 2025
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Martha's Portfolio
Martha’s Bio
I am director of the Open CoLab. I'm particularly interested in transparent pedagogy, non-traditional assessment, student agency, and the teaching of digital identity and citizenship.
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Opening up DF Modules
I would like to brainstorm the possibility of letting any participant in the Davis Grant create a DF module about a teaching, learning, or instructional
July 11, 2025
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June 13, 2025
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Martha’s Reflection on Today’s Orientation
I really wish I had checked all of the links on the Orientation home page. ?
September 10, 2022
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Martha's Highlights
I love Kim’s reflection on ego in this piece and the role it plays in our work as teachers.
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Stop Five: Exploring Your Portfolio
This page is your personal workspace in Design Forward. Whenever you complete an activity in a module, it will be posted here. In addition, you can add portfolio items at any time. At the bottom of the page, you will see a gray bar with options to add images, files, videos, text reflections, or workbook pages.
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Take some time to explore the options in your portfolio; you don’t need to add anything at this time. When you’re done click the “Back to the Map” button.
At the end of this stop in the Orientation journey, you will have
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Brad suggests we think about a “cyborg” approach to using online spaces for teaching. What if instead of online vs f2f, we consider when we use each in any class? This is reminiscent of some of how the CoLab talked about making modality choices during the height of Covid, but it also brings me back to the early (halcyon?) days of my career when it felt like there were lots of conversations about this very thing!