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Teaching Carnival

Monday, April 20th, 2009

This week I am hosting the Teaching Carnival.
This weeks Teaching Carnival theme: The Future of Education.
Alex Halavis suggests that the future of education lies outside the walls of the university. After all, what are students paying for? an administrative function that they can perform themselves? Personally I am not that keen on ad supported textbooks [...]


Facebook Changing the Terms of Service

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

For those who are not on twitter and following the recent meme about changing TOS, you should start by reading this post and the subsequent follow-up.
To be fair to Facebook part of the momentum here is a general sense of angst about who owns what when it is stored in “the cloud” or on “social [...]


iPhone Apps for Academic Types

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

So, I got this email the other day. You know the type, one from a not all together legitimate website, saying “Hey Link to My Post” your readers might want the information. The post purported to be a list of the top 50 iPhone applications for educators. The only problem is that some of the [...]


Back from the Election Time Suck

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Now that the election is over, and my digital politics class will require less time, hopefully I can return to blogging here more. So to start here is a list of things I have been collecting over the last few weeks that just got placed in the “to blog about” pile. (Incidentally, if the local [...]


Ironic Pedagogy

Friday, September 19th, 2008

File this under bad pedagogy and irony, a bit like teaching a statistics class but not letting the students use any numbers.


Digital Literacy Presentation

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

For those who requested it, here is the information and links to the talk I recently gave to the Texas Community College Teacher’s Association.
Approaching Digital Literacy: Creating a Networked Culture on Campus (Texas Community College Teachers Association 2008). (You can download the high quality Quicktime Movie or the lower quality mp4.) Below are the references [...]


Wikipedia Victory

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”


Blogs for Course Management

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Last week I had a request to detail how I use blogs as a course management tool, as a way to subvert and improve on the horrible ones most Universities encourage (sometimes force) faculty to use (yes I am talking about WebCT and Blackboard).
So, I am preparing said post, but in the meantime for those [...]


So You Want to Microblog (Twitter) With Your Students?

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

So over the past couple of months I have been writing here about my use of Twitter in the classroom. The first post garnered some much interest that I ended up writing a follow-up one. In both cases though I wrote primarily around the specific ways I used Twitter, or my [...]


Some Useful, Some Not, Things for You

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Here is a list of things I have been collecting as of late, which may or may not be of interest to those in academia . . .

I frequently make the argument that blogs are one of the most useful “tech tools” in education. In fact I now run a class blog for each of [...]