Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1328/wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic-use-of-his-creation UGH! You can just look at the title of the link to know what the article is about. What bothers me about this is the total disregard for rhetoric. If you think rhetorically, anything can be an appropriate source dependent on the purpose and audience. And…Wikipedia is like any other encyclopedia…the beginning point [...]

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Responding to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4417370.stm
Especially after the bomb attacks in London, the news media has become aware portable technologies are making individuals who are present at events instant journalists. I wonder how this applies to higher education. We are already seeing signs of it with the concerns about cell phones and other pocket technologies being used to [...]

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When I got approved for funding to attend the NMC conference (thanks Alan for leaving a little money hanging around when you left!), I also agreed to somehow document my experiences as a way to give back to the institution (the Maricopa Community College District) in this instance. When attending the online 2006 Technology, Colleges, [...]

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Isn’t this a great line? Someone in the audience at the OKI session I went to made this statement. What I love about this is how it related to theories of learning. If we believe that people learn by making connections to other stuff in their experiences, then we are truly only as good as [...]

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Interactive Posters—This one woman who was talking about student access to planning, designing, and printing large posters for course projects had made her poster interactive by building handouts into the poster itself. I love that idea!
Programs/software/tech tools to try out:

VUE—visual understanding environment (mind mapping): http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/
MediaBASE—multimodal [...]

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Brilliant technology folks have come up with a method to interface (OKI, OSID, and Pachyderm?? Still not quite sure…http://www.okiproject.org/) different repositories, with different coding schemes, to allow faculty and students to access a variety of material when searching. What I find fascinating about this discussion (of what I can follow) is that the reason they [...]

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The first session I attended conference was about the Houston Community College system’s construction of a Teaching with Technology Certificate program (http://www.hccs.edu/system/InsDev/IT/ICRC/technology/certification.htm). Cool Stuff! They have a two tiered program (with a portfolio requirement in the second tier) that has faculty learning both technologies and pedagogy for teaching with technology. Now, I’ll admit, I think [...]

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One of my “gifts” is my social nature! I have no problem walking into a room without knowing anyone and walking out with numerous new friends and colleagues. Although I did have a pile of colleagues who were attending this conference, it was also smashing to meet new people. I loved that I got a [...]

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One of the things I love about this conference is that it keeps me challenged. I’ve learned about technologies, or the applications of technologies, that I’ve never heard of, or imagined. I’ve had wonderful conversations with people who know a whole heck of a lot more about technology than I do. Part of the reason [...]

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My partner in scholarly crime, SKM-C, and I always talk about the need to critically engage, even theorize, the use of technology in teaching (or other scholarly acts). However, we recognize that we rarely see someone move beyond…I did this cool thing while teaching with XXX techno-gadget. And don’t get me wrong, I greatly appreciate [...]

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