Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

How do we support students in a class when we are asking them to learn new technologies?
What I have done: In the past I have primarily done two thinks. First, I build in “learn the technology” assignments. I find that students do not just “play to learn” the technologies unless they are given an assignment, [...]

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The problem: Community college students are over committed (as are their teachers . And when life throws them a loop, they don’t have a lot of extra time or energy to resolve the issue. Last semester I had a student in my face-to-face introduction to cinema class that got a promotion. However, it meant [...]

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I’ve decided that I love having bankers, or people that work for banks, in my classes. They always point out various “security” glitches with the technologies I’m using. A few years back a colleague and I did usability testing on our online courses. After one session the student (a banker) when to log out of [...]

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The fun, yet overwhelming and time consuming, aspect of my R&D gig for Ocotillo is all of the options available to play with Blogs, Social Bookmarking, RSS aggregators, and other “gluing” tools. However, as happens with any type of research, we do take into account our context and resources…ie, what we have access to. For [...]

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This past summer I asked that the college pay for an institutional access to an online workshop. Since it was the end of the fiscal year, an administrator scraped up the money and just asked that I make sure to invite others to the event. I worked with our CTL (Center for Teaching and Learning) [...]

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I took the initial notes for this blog entry in my notepad on 8/14. Yeah…I’ve been that busy. As you’ll see from my blog postings in the next couple of days, I’ve been up to some good stuff; however, it’s just been time filling. I wish I had Alan’s self-discipline blog regularly (heck…write regularly, I’d [...]

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