"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Facebook…it came up last week at UMW’s Faculty Academy, and has kept the blogosphere buzzing. Most of the posts I have read have been negative about Facebook. Rob Cottingham in Canada noted (and I love the dog cartoon): This hasn’t been a good past few weeks for Facebook. Growing concerns over what Facebook’s deliberately doing… Read more Yes or No on Facebook
Yesterday, I posted about my reflections after attending the first day of University of Mary Washington‘s Faculty Academy 2010. I will finish up with some reflections on the second day here. The first morning session on day two had two presentations. Raul Chavez and Lisa Ames discussed their use of a Ning social network they… Read more Reflections on Faculty Academy 2010 – Part Two
. For the third year in a row, I had the opportunity to attend the University of Mary Washington‘s annual Faculty Academy with my colleagues Jeff Nugent and Bud Deihl. This was the fifteenth year in which UMW faculty have shared their creative ways of using technology in teaching and learning. It has been interesting… Read more Reflections on Faculty Academy 2010 – Part One
As many of you know, we have spend the past few months preparing for our summer institute. Each summer, our Center for Teaching Excellence runs an intensive week-long institute on teaching with technology. Our theme this summer is teaching online, and in concert with our Provost, we are funding twenty faculty to work with us… Read more Mixed Signals about Online Teaching
I admit it. I have not been blogging much lately. There are excuses. To a large degree, I have been wrapped up in other work, so my connections to networked learning have been primarily through Twitter. We have been gearing up for our week-long summer institute, which this year focuses on online learning. I have… Read more Blogging Confession