Posted in learning on Aug 26th, 2008 Comments Off
(image from cultural logic)
I am currently taking a course on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and after the first class and doing some readings I am really excited for the class to get going.
I freely admit to being ignorant about souther writers although I have read a few novels by both Faulkner and Morrison. Being […]
Posted in Digital History, learning, Technology on Apr 8th, 2008 Comments Off
One of the articles I read was “Strange Facts in the History Classroom: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wiki(pedia)” by Christopher Miller. Wikipedia has been a hot topic in every academic department since it became a popular resource. I think Miller’s approach to the subject is the most even keeled […]
Posted in 3339, 3340, 3341, 3338, a, learning, post, the, General on Feb 18th, 2008 Comments Off
A too-brief follow-on to the previous post:
I would much rather see learning objects in a container like David Wiley’s course than in any CMS (I refuse to call them LMS’s–just my little gesture of protest) I’ve ever seen, for all the reasons everyone’s pointed out.
That said, I am still not enthusiastic about the “content” and […]
Posted in 3109, 3108, 3107, 3106, 3110, 3111, 3115, 3114, 3113, 3112, 3105, 3104, book, lives, the, learning, and, 2976, 3045, 2986, 2985, General on Feb 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
At last I’ve got the aggregation (or “dashboard”) site up: view it at http://rocksoulprogs08.umwblogs.org. Illness and travel slowed me down, but not most of the students, who are already busily exploring their musical lives, what they’re learning from each other, and what they’re learning from James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin, our first book. We […]
Posted in Life, Studying, Making A Mess, learning, music on Nov 6th, 2007 Comments Off
In an effort to kick start my brain again and create a place to make a glorious mess I’ve decided to dedicate this space to such subversive activities.
Right now I am on a mission to completely overhaul my approach to note-taking, studying, paper writing, etc. Realizing your sophomore year of college that you really never […]
Posted in teaching, meet, fellows, 2007 2008, lastethe, Technology, learning, today, General on Sep 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Those of us who work in technology and faculty development know that there are huge challenges if one wants to move beyond the “low-hanging fruit” (low-hanging? I practically jumped into the harvester’s lap) and get to truly systemic innovation and progress. The UMW Teaching, Learning, and Technology Fellows’ program is our effort to get to […]
Posted in harrisonburg, keynote, speaker, virginia, honored, conference, theme, october, connections, the, learning, environments, social, making, coming, General on Sep 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
I’m honored to be the keynote speaker at this conference, coming up October 4th and 5th in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Conference theme is “Social Learning Environments: Making Connections.” My keynote talk is on “The Digital Imagination.” Here’s the abstract:
For decades, higher education has run faster and faster to keep up with accelerating technological change. We’ve run […]
Posted in teach, learning, although, for i, recursive, understand, self directed, explore, learned, imagine, paradise, twitter, scale, logic, kind, lesson, General on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments Off
I will use Twitter to teach me what I can use Twitter for.
I understand that logic doesn’t scale, and that one cannot explore everything all the time in self-directed recursive learning (although now that I think about it, that’s not a bad way to imagine Paradise). But having learned another lesson from the kind of […]