Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

My rants and raves about being a dedicated scholar and technophile in the community college setting.

Entries from May 2006

Retreating from…

May 21st, 2006 · Comments Off

This weekend I am attending a retreat that concludes my year of participating in a SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) research fellowship. Of course I have yet to finish my final report for the project (whew…I don’t have to present until Monday afternoon) and therefore I should have carpooled here so I could have [...]

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Podcasting

May 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

As I have desperately tried to get everything done before the end of the semester (grades are due tomorrow), I’ve also been bombarded with announcements for “opportunities” next academic year. Eek! Can you all let me finish this academic year first?
Anyhow, it looks like I might apply to join a learning community on our campus [...]

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Tags: Techno-Culture

Confidence vs. “Better than thou”

May 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Last night I had my writing group workshop a monograph I was working on for an online publication (I’ll post more details once I know it’s been accepted). In the piece I was discussing what types of support faculty need to work with newer technologies. While talking the group mentioned a few spots where I [...]

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Tags: Techno-Culture