"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
A post this week by Wes Fryer caught my eye. He said: “I tire of dealing with folks who continue to not only cling to, but vigorously defend the anachronistic, 19th century teaching model of “asynchronous, non-interactive” face-to-face learning.” He had a draft matrix of teaching processes that specified activities as synchronous versus asynchronous and… Read more Blended Opportunities
Back on February 14th while I was heading down to eLearning 2008, Will Richardson made an interesting blog post entitled, “What Do We Know About Our Kid’s Future, Really?“. I commented and have followed the ensuing conversation, which now is up to 73 comments. In our office, we have been using wordclouds to look at… Read more Our Kids Future(s)
…and that is not all bad! One month ago, I did a “brown-bag” session here at VCU to introduce faculty and staff to the concept of RSS Feeds and Google Reader. I did a second session for some faculty on our medical campus. All told, I had about 15 people attend between the two campuses.… Read more Unintended Audiences
Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl and I were having coffee yesterday and an amazing conversation developed. We were reflecting on our own journey of discovery about the Web 2.0 world. In the past year, we have all started social networking (meeting some wonderful colleagues at College 2.0). This led to social bookmarking and international sharing of… Read more Thick and Chunky Instruction…
. Been digging out back in my office in Richmond, so did not get to this yesterday. I wanted to summarize two other sessions that I attended at the ITC eLearning 2008 conference earlier in the week. . . . Putting Our Stake in the Ground: Baldrige and Distance Learning Xeturah Woodley, Distance Learning Director,… Read more Final Wrap-Up: eLearning 2008
These are the slides that I presented at the ITC eLearning 2008 conference Monday. Delicious E L08 View another webinar from Britt Watwood . While you can listen to a narration of the above slides, you might find interesting a neat web application that Barry Dahl used during my presentation to “capture” what was happening. Check out… Read more My Presentation at eLearning 2008
I am back in Richmond from the ITC eLearning 2008 conference. Spent yesterday traveling (and losing my cellphone in a Florida IHOP … whole ‘nother story!!!) So wanted to post a few blog posts about Monday’s sessions. The keynote speaker Monday was Patrica McGee, Associate Professor of IT and Program Coordinator for Adult and Higher… Read more The Gold Standard for eLearning
Day three of the Instructional Technology Council’s eLearning 2008 conference, and we had a good keynote from Patricial McGee this morning. I did my presentation on Social Bookmarking, and attended a session on applying the Baldrige Quality Award to distance learning. I’ll blog more about those later. However, it was the Awards Ceremony at lunch… Read more Why I Do Online…
Hello again from the Instructional Technology Council’s eLearning 2008 Conference. It was a full day today and I have already blogged about Myk Garn’s keynote this morning…which set the pace for an instructive day. The first presentation I attended was “fun” but fell flat for reasons I will discuss below. The other three were insightful… Read more Three Stellar Presentations and One Dud
It is day two at the ITC eLearning 2008 conference, and this morning we heard a very engaging presentation by Myk Garn, Associate Vice President for eLearning/Executive Director of the Kentucky Virtual Campus. Myk started the session by noting that conferences in general are filled with presentations on “best practices” but most learning occurs from… Read more Worst Practices