"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I have waited a couple of days to post about the “relaunching” of Delicious … primarily because I had such a visceral reaction to it… as the image to the left illustrates. The old Delicious was my gateway drug into Web 2.0. Through Delicious, I began in 2007 to connect with colleagues (dare I say… Read more Paradigm Shifting Again
The Fall semester wrapped up mid-December with my departure for two weeks to visit family in New England, so I never really had the opportunity to reflect on my first use of blogging as a mode for instruction and class communication. Three grandkids have a way of prioritizing your time! Now that I have returned… Read more Is Networked Learning Doomed in Virginia K-12?
On Thursday afternoons for the past few weeks, I have been joining Jeff Nugent‘s graduate class in VCU‘s Preparing Future Faculty program. This class of twenty-four bright masters and doctoral students probe concepts at the intersection of teaching, learning and technology, and through the process, keep a learning journal in the form of a blog. … Read more Shift in Access Equals Shift in Power
As a final assignment in the online course I team-taught with Lynda Gillespie, we had our students reflect on the journey they took over the 14 weeks of class. Our course is Educational Technology for School Leaders, a graduate course in the Ed Leadership masters at VCU. We were fortunate in this class to have… Read more End of Semester Reflections
This week, we launched a project that has been in development for the past five months. The past few years have seen significant growth in the development of online learning in both K-12 and higher education settings. With an estimated four million college students taking at least one online course this year, and forty-four states… Read more Faculty Resource Guide for Online Teaching
I have not posted for quite a while, with the primary reason being an upgrade of my old body. My colleague Jeff Nugent termed my pending knee replacement as an upgrade to Knee 2.0, which seemed very appropriate. So a little over two weeks ago, the good team at West End Orthopaedic retooled me with… Read more Knee 2.0
Image via CrunchBase It has been an interesting week for me in Facebook. I have reconnected with several colleagues that I had lost touch with in the past few years. Facebook to me is great for connecting with family and friends, but as with any social networking application, a host of questions arise concerning possible… Read more The Friends Question
I am sure that I will not be the only one blogging today about President Obama’s Inauguration speech. Bud Deihl and I walked over to the student commons and watched it with several hundred students and staff. Our new President crafted a wonderful speech with both hope and purpose in mind, founded on the idea… Read more Hope and Purpose
Swimming in my PLE this weekend and it felt a little like the Dow Jones Stock Index…up one minute, down the next. I am an optimist by nature and believe that as the web grows even more ubiquitous, faculty by and large will look for ways to integrate it into their classroom. There are certainly… Read more The Rollercoaster Ride of Faculty Development
I had the privilege of facilitating a panel discussion today during one of our Brown Bag luncheons in which Terry Carter and Jon Becker joined me to discuss new opportunities for academic publishing. All three of us blog, and we shared how we each use blogs in education. Our podcast is located here. Give a… Read more Blogging Panel Discussion