Jan 29th, 2010
Those with whom I network for learning purposes through Twitter, blogs, Nings, etc. are largely members of an amorphous educational technology community. That community is fond of throwing around terms like “change” and “reform” connected to schools or education and most often the “change” or “reform” is largely related to advances in technology. The gist [...]
Sep 30th, 2009
I’m teaching a course called The Politics of Education to an awesome group of our doctoral students this semester. The wiki/syllabus (a living, breathing document) is located HERE. You can participate and help my students’ (and my own) learning in a couple of ways. First, tagging…anything that you think might be related to what the [...]
There’s a bit of irony that I’m writing this given that Scott McLeod got on my case this morning for having my head in my Blackberry too much. I’m glad he did that. Here’s why… I’m disconcerted that we’re here at Edubloggercon ’09 which is billed as an unconference where conversations happen. The goal is [...]
Jan 9th, 2009
OK, folks, I need your help. Back in February 2008, my wife bought me a Slacker Portable Player for my birthday. It cost $250. Slacker had very recently released the player and I thought it was the perfect device for me since I don’t have many mp3′s, have very few CDs I’d want to rip, [...]
Sep 8th, 2008
For months now, I’ve been trying to figure out how to develop an online community to enhance our programs within the Department of Educational Leadership at VCU. Currently, each course has its own Blackboard space. We also send lots of e-mails to students, though sadly we don’t even have good e-mail groups in our e-mail [...]