Monthly Archives: February 2008

iPhone As An Official University Device

ACU, Abilene Christian University, has announced that they intend to give iPhones to their incoming freshman students. The university began thinking about the mobile/education convergence on the iPhone/iPod Touch platform in early 2007 and appears to have begun testing the device on campus midway through the year.
Today, along with the announcement of the forthcoming initiative, [...]

Help Me Wrangle the Future in Educational Technology

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
—William Gibson
Imagine you could have any current technology, in it’s current or slightly reworked form, to help you in a in-person classroom setting. The technology would be used by both the facilitator and the learners. It could be used outside of the class’s meetings, or [...]

A Running Start

I had the best of intentions to get this blog up and running in the month prior to my first classes in my Instructional Design program. Instead, I posted one entry all semester. I was not happy with my install, my stylesheets and I didn’t have time to address either. Working full-time and taking two [...]