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Welcome to the first newsletter in the first week of E-Learning 3.0. It would have been yesterday, but as you may have noticed, I had my hands full at the E21 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in 21st Century Education. You can find one short video from that event below. There will be two more (like I said, I was pretty busy) but if you can't wait, you can view the full 9 hours live streamed.

For our guest this week we have Shelly Blake-Plock, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Yet Analytics on Wednesday at noon eastern - here's the Event Page with the time (in your local time zone) and link to participate. Yet Analytics is among the leaders in developing and implementing E-Learning data solutions, and specifically, xAPI and Learning Record Stores. So you want to view this!

We also have a full slate of other guests. See them all on the new Course Activities page.

This week's task will be centered around getting your own data into the course (I've decided to use the word 'task' rather than 'assignment' - it feels more participatory). There are three parts to this task:
- create a blog of some sort (you can use Blogger, WordPress, Edublogs, or any other service you like, or if you are feeling adventurous, you can install your own version of gRSShopper on Reclaim - I'll be providing video instructions).
- find the RSS feed for your blog - you can use the OERu Feed Finder to do this. Don't worry - you don't even need to log in.
- Enter the RSS Feed URL into the form I will be providing in a day or two (it exists, but it hasn't finished testing yet).

Badges. Yes, there will be badges, but I have to set up the tasks and badge system first. I'll do that as the course proceeds. But here's how it will work:
- You can get one (or more) badge for the task for each of the 9 weeks of the course (the first task is the one above). - if you get at least 6 out of 9 badges, you will be given a course badge.
These will be extremely rare and valuable (and might even be blockchained!) so be sure to do some tasks. You'll need your blog to do the tasks, so you should really do the first task.

That's it for now. More tomorrow! And don't miss the noon event.

Videos

AI in Education Symposium - Introduction Oct 23, 2018 Artificial Intelligence and 21st Century Education in Ottawa, my brief introduction and posing of a problem. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WENb9N2gnpQ

Posts

Please note: these posts were added to the newsletter manually. Apologies if I missed you. I'll catch up next week. Your first assignment in the course (to be posted in a day or two) will be to create and submit your blog or website for harvesting.