The Competitive Spirit

In the business world, firms are always attempting to develop a competitive advantage over their competitors. A competitive advantage suggests that a firm is doing something that is distinctive and cannot be duplicated by others. With that as background, I observed two events in the last 24 hours that have me thinking about competitive advantage…and… Read more The Competitive Spirit

Visualizations & Fine Print

Jeff Nugent blogged a fascinating piece today on knowledge representations through tag clouds. It is a subject we had brainstormed before, but in this post, he shared his reactions to a presentation at ELI by George Siemens and Cyprien Lomas on their use of ManyEyes…a web application from IBM that looked exciting and that I… Read more Visualizations & Fine Print

RSS Workshop

I did a brown-bag workshop today for faculty.  I feel that too few faculty take advantage of RSS feeds to inform their teaching and research. It occurred to me that I could impact many more faculty than the few who attend lunch sessions if I upload my presentation to SlideShare, which I did!  I may… Read more RSS Workshop

Hello Flat World!

I have decided to take Michele Martin’s advice and quit lurking and start blogging!   More to come! Britt Britt Watwood, Ed.D. Online Learning Specialist VCU Center for Teaching Excellence bwatwood@vcu.edu http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/734/981 http://del.icio.us/bwatwood