Reactions to Change and New Technologies.

I’ve been struck by some connections, or similar lines of thought, as I’ve read many of the recent posts from the members of EC&I 831.  Shawn Loepky mentioned that we often hear comments from some of our colleagues about today’s students being quite different from students of the past.

We hear comments like, “Have you noticed [...]

Meme: Passion Quilt

Shaun Loeppky passed this my way, via Connie Cossar, via Dean Shareski .  Here are the rules:
[1] * Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr CreativeCommons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.
[2] * Title your blog [...]

‘Blogging of Thoughts in Progress… Animoto, Voicethread.

I have some reservations, or at least hesitations towards ‘blogging about thoughts that are still in progress – things that I am still discovering, or learning.  Often I feel that if I don’t have a well developed thought, or if I don’t have a great success story to share, then I don’t feel comfortable posting.  [...]

Tuesday Feb 26th – Presenter Dean Shareski

Last night’s Eluminate presentation by Dean Shareski was by far the most worth-while of all of our sessions this far in the course.  I don’t say that to discredit any of the other presenters, only to mention that Dean made some really excellent points that really hit home for me. 
I found the discussion about [...]

Creative Commons in the Classroom.

I stumbled upon information about Creative Commons licenses while researching a non-profit organization called LibriVox that provides free audiobooks from the public domain.  I didn’t immediately see the connection to the classroom.  However, it has since become very clear to me that any time I encourage students to create or post anything that they have [...]

Customized my WordPress Weblogs.

Well it took many hours of frustration, but I was finally able to customize the my WordPress weblog to do what I need it to do.  I have two weblog sites hosted here on wordpress.  This one is my Educational Technology weblog, and the other is my teaching web space.  I have been frustrated that [...]

E.C.& I. 831 Major Digital Project Underway.

My major digital project is starting to take form as I am now beginning to find meaning and many uses for some of the technologies that we have discussed thus far in the course.   I have set up a WordPress blog for the courses that I am currently teaching.  This weblog is intended to serve [...]

Video Sharing as a Classroom Tool.

Check out the video page of this weblog (Understanding the New Web).  This is a space I’ve created to collect videos that I’ve used, or will likely view with my classes.  I teach Visual Art, Computer Science, English, and some other computer couses like Information Processing.  Most of the videos in this space are for [...]

Blogging as a Classroom Tool.

Thanks to those who gave feedback to my last post.  There were some great points made that have sparked much thought.  I was also glad to hear that others had similar views as they got starting with blogging, searching for useful blogs, and reading blogs. 
 I’ve read a bit of discussion about using blogs to publish [...]