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Vanessa 03:35 on 01/10/2014 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Certificate, Coursera ( 12 ), MOOC ( 21 ), Site Dance ( 4 )

## MOOC Certificates Interesting twist for Site Dance…
MOOC Certificates

Interesting twist for Site Dance II MOOC: Certificates ONLY for Signature Track. Regular Track: no virtual paper for you!
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Vanessa 09:07 on 27/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Certificate, MOOC ( 21 ), PBR ( 8 )

Meanwhile if anyone remembers that old PBR…
Meanwhile if anyone remembers that old “PBR” MOOC, the peeps over on the FB group are determined to get the certificates promised in the syllabus and for some reason, the instructors seem adamant that certificates not be given:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1397802437119883/1432171353682991/?notif_t=group_comment_reply

Christa Forster, Vanessa Blaylock, and Hugh are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Hugh 10:00 on 27/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
  
  I’m not in that loop. I bailed out of FB and into Diaspora. Something similar but more flexible and open source. And oh yeah, user owned so Markie Zee doesn’t have his mitts on my stuff. Do the instructors give a reason for not wanting to give the certs seems curious? I can’t really see the cert being a deal breaker in a job interview though so it seems like a little bit of a waste of energy. But people will often stand on principle before they stand on their own two feet.
  - Vanessa Blaylock 10:05 on 27/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
    
    Agreed Hugh. It’s not worth making a fuss. Yet weird that the MOOC that asked for more work than any I’ve taken doesn’t want to pass out certs. The instructors apparently claim they never offered one, but the FB group has pointed to the promise in the syllabus.
    
    I originally liked the vision of Diaspora. But love or hate FB, it’s biggest strength is that it’s the new “Phone Book” with almost everybody in it. There aren’t a lot of peeps (that I know of) to share stuff with on Diaspora.
- Hugh 10:16 on 27/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
  
  All true. I just feel ikkey every time I use it and I have this messiah complex. If I join they will follow. So far I only know one person there. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a collaborative project there?
  - Vanessa Blaylock 10:25 on 28/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
    
    Yes Hugh, there are SOOOO many platforms out there! For any activity you like there are numerous Proprietary, and numerous Open choices. Just to take blogging as an example, you could get an account at a proprietary site like Tumblr or Medium or Blogger, or use Open software like WordPress or Open Blog or Ghost. Or many others!
    
    It’s an obscenity of riches! Perhaps all the choice / confusion is even a piece of why so many mostly use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and that’s it. “FTY” IS “The Internet” for many. I was shocked to hear that many people can go a whole week without ever using Google Search, since I, like so many others, use it so many times every day.
    
    It doesn’t have to be an oversimplified binary thing, but when I’m choosing which Feudal Lord to pledge my allegiance to, I choose Google. They’re still proprietary, and they definitely make choices I don’t like, but when it’s Google vs anybody else, Google’s perspective almost always suits me better than the other peeps.
    
    With FB vs G, for example, Facebook really wants to be The New AOL. They’d love it if you never left their walled garden. It’s not quite that simplistic, and they do provide lots of hooks in and out, but I still find some truth in that perspective. By contrast, Google really wants you to surf the complete Information Superhighway, they just want to be the gas station on all the on-ramps. As a blogger, the Google perspex suits me a whole lot better than the FB.
    - Christa Forster 11:22 on 28/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
      
      Great metaphor there at the end, Van. Love this discussion!
Vanessa 11:43 on 25/01/2014 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Certificate, MOOC ( 21 ), PBR ( 8 )

Did anybody ever get an Email Certificate Or…
Did anybody ever get an Email? Certificate? Or any other sort of acknowledgement that you actually completed the PBR course?

Vanessa Blaylock and Molly Ross are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Molly Ross 13:39 on 25/01/2014 Permalink | Reply
  
  No. PBR just sort of faded away.
- Vanessa Blaylock 16:18 on 07/02/2014 Permalink | Reply
  
  There’s a discussion thread on the Facebook PBR Student Group. Apparently some people have contacted our faculty about certificates and gotten the response that we should prove that we were ever promised certificates!? The classmates appear to be in touch with someone at NovoED other than the course faculty who is “working on it.”
Vanessa 20:20 on 17/12/2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Certificate, Coursera ( 12 ), Site Dance ( 4 )

Site Dance Certificate from Coursera

Aww, lookie, virtual papyrus from my teacher! 😀

Vanessa, Ciara, and Christa Forster are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Christa Forster 20:27 on 17/12/2013 Permalink | Reply
  
  congrats, Van! 🙂
  - Vanessa 20:50 on 17/12/2013 Permalink | Reply
    
    of course we do it for love & knowledge, not virtual papyrus, but if you’re into such extrinsic motivators, one nice thing about the Coursera papyrus is that they’re connected to LinkedIn, so you can add them to your LI Profile.
- Ciara 20:31 on 17/12/2013 Permalink | Reply
  
  Lovely! Congratulations, Vanessa!