Well, this is cool. Embedding someone’s Tweet in your site. Yet another visual way to link to web content and highlight it for your readers. What would you do with it? How would you suggest that students use it? Citing… Read More ›
communication
a PSA on 21st century typing
Have you run across those people who learned how to type in the dark ages of the 20th century and are still typing two spaces after a period in both their documents and their online text? Or worse–are you one… Read More ›
mobile devices in the classroom still gets a rise
Oh, darn. I took the devil’s advocate position in a Facebook thread on how to write/enforce a poorly written cell phone policy, and I think I angered a few frustrated faculty friends. That’s how this post began, but I have… Read More ›
the SoundCloud app in education
I’m playing around a little here by embedding a SoundCloud track–not one of my own, because I haven’t made any yet. Most of us think of SoundCloud as an app for distributing music, but it is just as useful for… Read More ›
do this or do that
One thing I liked about the CourseSites MOOC “Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success,” generally referred to as the Bonk Open Course, after the instructor Dr. Curtis Bonk, was the way coursework was given in terms of options…. Read More ›
semester waves of energy
Here’s what I said (modified) in the walled blog in the CourseSites MOOC today. Thought I would let it out into the open air: Been reading about motivating online students this week–lots of good stuff first in the Dennen &… Read More ›
I like Blackboard
Enough about introverts, already. I’m coming out and saying it: I like Blackboard, the much maligned learning management system that is the big dog in the market. I can’t claim to understand its business practices, but I think it works… Read More ›
introverts, education, and technology (finale)
Last year, Philip Bump wrote in The Atlantic that our “always-on” culture is a “Golden Age for introverts.” You are not surprised because it fits with your stereotype of the anti-social introvert locked away in the dark staring at a… Read More ›
introverts, education, and technology (part 2)
Bummer that the TED video doesn’t fit well in the cover post of this blog’s theme, so I’m writing part 2 sooner than I wanted to move it off the front page. My first concern about not only accepting that… Read More ›
introverts, education, and technology (part 1)
Introverts are talking about themselves recently and I’m wondering how our knowledge about introverts should affect educational and working practices to accommodate the thinking environment that works best for them. Here’s Susan Cain and her popular talk on “The Power… Read More ›
YouTube’s new look and your Channel
YouTube has a new look–a trend of a number of the big sites recently–and since it is owned by Google, not surprising to see the overhaul. The new look of your Channel page is sleeker and more contemporary in style;… Read More ›
your course tools: bundled or unbundled?
I returned from EDUCAUSE 2011 a few weeks ago with some ideas swimming around in my head, waiting to form. I attended only sessions in the teaching and learning track–or were they calling it a domain?–and at the end, I… Read More ›
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