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The last month has been incredibly busy for me. One of the things that was keeping me busy was working on this video/screencast introducing the Social Media Classroom to the world. And now, just after making this [...]
Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures has released a recent Instructional Technology Survey (PDF download) they conducted on campus, where they asked graduate and undergraduate students who the felt about the various technologies that were being deployed in their courses. The results are interesting, especially the differences of opinion between the undergrads and the [...]
Again, I have taken dramatic pause on this blog. This semester I hoped to start blogging about my Multimedia Projects class, but here we are at the near end of the semester, and not a peep! This is thanks to two issues: one lack of time, and two, lack of bloggable content.
I have been doing [...]
Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful, but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.
Above is a quote attributed to the Shaker furniture makers. My good friend Josh Porter shared it with me along with his feelings about craftsmanship. Last night Josh made a great presentation [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My first introduction to Michael Wesch was through a video posted on YouTube entitled “The Machine is Us/ing Us.” I wasn’t the only person introduced to him that day. What started as a video discussing digital communications with his colleagues, was within a few short days the most talked about video on the Internet, and [...]
In my first reading assignment on “The Adult as Learner,” I’m discovering andragogy. Andragogy is a term that compliments pedagogy. If pedagogy is “the art and science of teaching children,” then andragogy is “the art and science of teaching adults.”
It seems though, that the two terms represent more than simply what their Greek roots translate [...]