"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Many have been bemoaning the final loss of the Martian Opportunity Rover, which lost contact last June and was officially declared dead this past week after 15 years roving the Martian landscape. One could say that we lost Opportunity…but it really is a story of what we gained. It was designed for a three month… Read more Opportunity Lost
…and I obviously mean the song…not the firearm (or arming of teachers!)! I have always been a fan of 38 Special…and this song played today on my Pandora stream as I was driving across town. (…and yes, I pulled over to take this picture so as to not violate the law!) Cool lyrics that have… Read more 38 Special Pedagogy
I have been reading P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking’s new book LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Tuesday evening, I was able to attend a talk that Emerson Brooking gave at the Robertson School of Media and Culture at VCU. They recorded the talk, and I will add that at the bottom of this… Read more Social Media as Unreality
In my post last Saturday on eLearning Myths a Decade Later, Sue Waters in Australia asked a good question: While I first taught online at the University of Nebraska in 1995 (pre-LMS’s), I have been teaching continuously online since 2001. So I thought I would look back 18 years and 8 years, and compare my… Read more Changes in Two Decades of Online Teaching
In the 2019 Edublog challenge, yesterday we were to update an old post. I am catching up today, but I thought it might be interesting to go back and look at a post I did almost 11 years ago…in my first month of blogging. I posted “eLearning Myths” on February 16, 2008 while I was… Read more eLearning Myths a Decade Later
This past week, we started the Winter term of Northeastern’s EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning. I have twenty-some students from a mix of K12, higher ed, health education, and corporate training in this Masters level course. In addition to work in our course LMS, we also are tweeting to the hashtag #EDU6323.… Read more Working the Future in EdTech
Today is the start of my Northeastern class EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning. It also provided an interesting lesson in edtech! I spent several weeks in December setting up the course, which I have taught before…shifting some readings, condensing a week on video and adding a week on AR/VR, and re-recording my… Read more Thanks Wayback
Back in 2014, I did a 30-day blog challenge with Enoch Hale that was pretty intense…but barrels of fun! Five days a week for 6 weeks, Enoch and I posted around the prompt: “I want to pose an open challenge: Post an out-of-the-box question about teaching and learning each day for 30 days.” While fun,… Read more A Reasonable Challenge
Last week, my Merrimack students were each exploring a different digital tool and reporting on it in their blogs. You can find their blogs here. Some I was familiar with, like Trell0, Flipboard, Slack and Canvas. Others were new to me, including Genially, Adobe Spark, and Google Keep. Between the posts and the comments, we… Read more Interesting Week on Digital Tools
Last year, I was asked to develop a new course for a new Certificate in Catholic School Leadership. My course is the middle course in a three-course program, and the pilot group started my course this week. Given that the course focuses on technology, communication, and school improvement, I decided to have my students blog… Read more New Class New Perspectives
