"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Emile Zola said, “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” Yet work is not work when joy is evident. . These thoughts came to mind as I watched my Center for Teaching Excellence partner, Bud Deihl, developing his first draft VoiceThread. Each of us in the Center has… Read more Artist at Work
Workshops and articles about Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) or Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are showing up frequently at conferences and blog postings. Wikipedia dates the first use of the term to November 4, 2004 – an eternity in computer years! I am working up a Lunch and Learn session in two weeks on PLEs, so… Read more “Personal” and Yet Not
Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl and I were having coffee this morning and discussing our journey this past year in adopting new technologies. All three of us have gone through some interesting and remarkably similar phases in our adoption of social bookmarking, blogs, and lately – Twitter. In all three cases, we gained an initial understanding… Read more The Situational Adoption Curve
I have posted several times about the power of using RSS feeds to make sense of the vast array of information in the World Wide Web. It appears to me that few faculty recognize (yet) just how transformational it is to move from a “surfer” of the web to one where the web comes to… Read more Aggregation Three Ways
Michele meant it in the nicest way…but I have been thinking about her comment this weekend that I am a delicious “bookmarking fiend!” Some might suggest that I am a bit compulsive or obsessive about using delicious, but perhaps a little reflection on that use will be illustrative. I looked at my delicious bookmarks this… Read more A Bookmarking Fiend
Over in the Bamboo Project this morning, Michele Martin has posted her interview with my colleagues, Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl, and me. Michele did a nice job capturing the highlights of the 24-minute talk, but I thought I would add some reflections of a participant. I “met” Michele through del.icio.us earlier this year. I no… Read more A Delicious Interview
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