Scattershot: Collected Parenthetical Asides and Other Non-Linear Things
Parenthetical Aside #1: (This place has me thinking. A lot. My new life as an Instructional Designer has made it abundantly clear that something about the internet has changed. I’ve known this for some...
View ArticleWhat Are Faculty Really Afraid Of?
In making the transition from a solely face-to-face teacher to an online educator, I’ve had to uncover and address some of my own biases toward what “online education” looks like… and I’ve realized...
View ArticleHow to Be Your Own IT Support
Being your own IT Support staff means being willing to solve your own problems AND knowing where to look. 1. First of all, when in doubt, Google it! Teach yourself and your students how to use Google...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Author
In 1967 Roland Barthes announced the “The Death of the Author.” His assertion was that all authors are collage artists, merely stitching together previous utterances, whether from speech overheard or...
View ArticleI Am Not a Gadget: An Appeal for the End of Anonymity in Online Education
I’m currently preparing for a faculty training session (iTeach) meant to help faculty integrate technology into their teaching in meaningful ways. I’m enjoying the process of planning the curriculum...
View ArticleWhy I Dislike Google+
Originally this post was called “How To Automatically Share Google+ Posts on Twitter and Facebook.” Except, as it turns out, you can’t do this. At least not in a way that I’ve figured out yet. I was...
View ArticleA Review of a Review of a Book I Haven’t Yet Read
I work with a shockingly bright group of Instructional Designers, a team of 12 professionals from crazily diverse backgrounds. I often refer to them as the X-Men even though it’s kind of a misnomer...
View ArticleThings I Discovered About eLearning from Writing for a Food Blog
In a conversation with Bill Moyers, the scholar Joseph Campbell said that “if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the...
View Article“Testing Day”
This Twilight Zone episode (“Testing Day”) is another example of dehumanized educational practices. Truth serum? Not to mention the fact that the smart kids are disposed of… but doesn’t this reflect...
View ArticleMobile in the Classroom in Starship Troopers.
I love the tablets the students are using in this scene in Starship Troopers. It’s also interesting to see that the traditional arrangement of the classroom has remained and is only augmented by the...
View ArticleTechniques for Innovation
Last Fall, during our inaugural launch of the CITE Fellows program, our Instructional Design Team was faced with a difficult challenge: how can we pair CITE faculty with Designers to work on innovative...
View ArticleColor Value
To understand color value, think how a color changes as either more and more white paint is added versus more and more black. In the digital realm, value change can only operate on a slider along a...
View ArticleI Am Not a Gadget: An Appeal for the End of Anonymity in Online Education
I’m currently preparing for a faculty training session (iTeach) meant to help faculty integrate technology into their teaching in meaningful ways. I’m enjoying the process of planning the curriculum...
View ArticleWhy I Dislike Google+
Originally this post was called “How To Automatically Share Google+ Posts on Twitter and Facebook.” Except, as it turns out, you can’t do this. At least not in a way that I’ve figured out yet. I...
View ArticleA Review of a Review of a Book I Haven’t Yet Read
I work with a shockingly bright group of Instructional Designers, a team of 12 professionals from crazily diverse backgrounds. I often refer to them as the X-Men even though it’s kind of a misnomer...
View ArticleThings I Discovered About eCampus from Writing for a Food Blog
In a conversation with Bill Moyers, the scholar Joseph Campbell said that “if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the...
View Article“Testing Day”
This Twilight Zone episode (“Testing Day”) is another example of dehumanized educational practices. Truth serum? Not to mention the fact that the smart kids are disposed of… but doesn’t this reflect...
View ArticleMobile in the Classroom in Starship Troopers.
I love the tablets the students are using in this scene in Starship Troopers. It’s also interesting to see that the traditional arrangement of the classroom has remained and is only augmented by the...
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