Category: Teaching
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Innovate Online – Are we there yet?
This is an interesting article, and seemingly as relevant to my new position in Science as it is with the position that I’m leaving here in Education, Sharon Kopyc as an article that seems to hit the nail on the head. I think that it should be obvious that students are using technology to to…
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When your gadgets blog
This was put out a few weeks ago, but I’ve just now got around to it. The Escapist writes about how there is a system that allows Xbox 360s to have a “voice”. In the article, the author, Mur Lafferty mentions that this is possibly a slippery slope to give machines voices. I don’t know…
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IT vs IT
Following along what I was thinking about last night with regards to IT vs IT, I began to see that for many, the line is very blurry. It’s much like the whole hybrid learning environment thing. Sharing acronyms certainly doesn’t help matters any, and when the individuals within the respective fields can often offer at…
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Blended vs Hybrid Learning – What do we really mean?
This is something that we’ve joked around with a bit in the office. What really are we talking about when we say blended learning or hybrid learning? With all those freaking letters after our names, why are we collectively using synonyms to describe two very different learning environment? If we truly want each other to…
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Cheap Video Production
I’ve mentioned this before, but there are more and more companies out there offering what amount to disposable video cameras. The most recent of these, Pure Digital (noted in my previous post as well), offers a camera that will record to flash memory. And at around $200 it could be a very cheap way for…