"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Over the past month or so, we have taken our students in GRAD 602 on a carefully scaffolded journey through web technology to support teaching and learning. With Jeff Nugent and our graduate fellow, David McLeod, we have laid out how the web is impacting the landscape of learning, suggested the use of Chickering and… Read more From Aggregation to Curation
As many of you know, Jeff Nugent and I teach a graduate course in the Preparing Future Faculty program called GRAD-602: Teaching, Learning and Technology. Our 24 PhD candidates and post-docs spend the first 6 weeks exploring different potential technologies, such as blogs, Twitter, Diigo, and other networked applications. Most of them are familiar with… Read more Toe Dipping in Technology
Next week, I am doing a workshop on “How Not To Kill with Powerpoint” at VCU. In this workshop, I draw heavily from Garr Reynolds‘ Presentation Zen, which is now out in its second edition. So I found this recent Slideshare preso from Rashmi Sinha to be interesting: SlideShare Zeitgeist 2011 View more presentations from… Read more Powerpoint as Default