Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

I have to admit, as much as I love the New Media Consortium (nmc), I was a little frustrated with the 2006 regional conference. One of their tracks was on the future of scholarship. As a two year college faculty member, I find that various new media make scholarly activities more doable with a high [...]

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Let’s be honest, the real reason I’ve gotten around to typing up these why/what blurbs has not been for my students (bad Shelley, baaaad Shelley); but, instead, for a group of part-time faculty in a program that is helping to “train” them to teach ENG102 (our second semester FYC course) online. Let me start by [...]

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So, I’m trying to get caught up with some reporting out on conferences from last semester. Blogging about them at least allows me to reflect some and gives me a space to go back to as a reminder. So…the things that stick out from the 2006 conference of the Two-Year College Association (TYCA) branch of [...]

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This post is blatant homework for the Podcasting FPLC. The beauty of Richardson’s book is its length; it’s short and easy to skim. However, that made the Podcasting chapter not very…I’m not sure what to say. I guess it has the basics:

listing of directories to search for educational podcasts,
examples of how to use podcasts in [...]

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Warning—this message is definitely more of a rant
In his book, Richardson spends a little time talking about what Educause, and others, refers to as the Net Generation. Clearly since Richardson is focused on K-12, his audience does fit that category more—at least the middle and upper class school populations. I think many university scholars researching [...]

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I am again responding to Will Richardson’s book…
…Context: I’m on a plane flying to Corpus Christi for a meeting on an executive committee I accidentally got myself elected to. I’m missing one of our podcasting FPLC meetings and we were going to talk about some chapters from the book. I’m also writing these as my [...]

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As if I didn’t already have enough to do (snort!), this academic year I am participating in MCC’s new Faculty & Professional Learning Communities (FPLC—pronounced fip-lick). Now yes, of course no time (dissertation, what dissertation); however, I feel it is important to demo and contribute to building an environment of scholarship on our campus. So…I’m [...]

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Well thanks Alan (http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/27/five/)…I guess I’ve been “tagged” with the five things meme (http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/006087.html). So, what are five unknown things about me:
1. I once won best jr. handler at a St. Bernard national specialty. So yes, I guess if I really wanted to I could have become a dog show handler (think Best in Show, [...]

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I firmly believe that some of my best ideas come from the fact that I do too much at once, multitask, etc., and “wires-cross.” In the act of crossing something funky emerges. So now that I’m starting to think/plan for wedding stuff, of course the geek has taken charge. So, last week I learned about [...]

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First, let me start by saying “thank you” to Alisa for sharing her “I read every morning” list of RSS feeds. I was wondering how she always heard about the fun, cool, hip new tools before me!
But yesterday lifehacker blogged about Crossloop (http://www.crossloop.com/download.html) as a small, easy, app to use to reach through and remotely [...]

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