"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Those on Twitter are already aware, but a few days ago, I posted: I have been teaching for 26 years since retiring from the Navy, and today is the last day of my last class. #EDU6323 was a good way to finish, with great students past and present. Next adventure is kicking Stage 4 metastatic… Read more New Chapter
This week, I once again started the Northeastern University class EDU-6323: Technology as a Medium for Learning. I have taught this course twice a year since 2015 … and like the technology we cover, it continues to evolve. I have swapped out Michelle Miller’s (2014) book Minds Online to the newer Jim Lang Second Edition… Read more Defining Technology For Learning
Jim Lang is out with his Second Edition to Small Teaching. Anyone who follows me knows that I have liked this series, blogging about the First Edition here and the companion book that Flower Darby and Jim wrote on Small Teaching Online here. I first met Jim Lang at a local brainstorming session in Boston… Read more Small Teaching Revisited
Last week, Jane Hart published her latest Top Tools list. This was the 15th annual list compiled by Jane, and a bit of a surprise. She noted, “2021 was the YEAR OF DISRUPTION! There were a substantial number of new tools nominated this year so the main list has now been extended to 300 tools to accommodate them, and… Read more Tool Reflections
Next week, I will once again teach the doctoral course ILD-831 for Creighton University – Technology and Leadership. I enjoy this course because it pushes me as both a technology advocate and also as a advocate for people-centric leadership. To experience a bit of the digital world in which these doctoral students now or will… Read more A Flashlight versus a North Star
Tomorrow, I once again will be teaching the Northeastern course EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning. This course has gone through a number of changes since I first taught it in 2015. At it’s core is the GRAD-602 course that Jeff Nugent and I taught back at VCU in the last decade. I… Read more The Blogs I Read Now
With the exception of 2012, I have participated every year in Jane Hart’s call asking what the top ten digital tools are that I use. For the 15th Annual Survey, my top ten tools are listed below. My choices this year reflect both the common themes I have used for quite a few years in… Read more My Top Tools for 2021
Northeastern University where I teach in the Masters of eLearning and Instructional Design has begun awarding badges to acknowledge specific skills or knowledge gained through the university’s credit-bearing, curriculum-based experiences. In a recent Forbes article, Tom Vander Ark noted that badges offered a better credential of learning, and that the pandemic had accelerated this shift… Read more New Badge for My Course
I just saw an insightful tweet from Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI): The events of the past week, culminating in the horrific insurrection of the pro-Trump mob on the U.S. Capital, have been in my thoughts as I prepared to once again teach my Creighton doctoral course on Technology and Leadership. To click this class off,… Read more Optimism and Pessimism in a Bipolar World
Like many of you, I have been reading blog posts that summarized last year and looked forward to the new year. “New Year Resolutions” are always kind of interesting, particularly since so few are kept! So I found Laura Blankenship’s post interesting, as she looked at the word “resolutions” itself – which flows from the… Read more Verbs