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  • Moving forward

    Well, as you may have noticed the posting here has fallen through the floor, though I’ve been sure to update my picture of the week. This has got me thinking about what the future of this blog might be. I was thinking about shuttering it, but then I thought about all that I’m learning now…

  • Novelty is the best teacher

    I’d say this is proof that novelty teaches (yeah, I know I’m behind on this meme… but what can you do?). I guess the trick is – you have to make sure that even the novelty has novelty. You might have to do some really boring presentations now and again if all you ever do…

  • Student Perceptions – a report from Memorial

    You can download the entire report here, but I’ll quickly put up the main findings. To be an effective face to face instructor, students were looking for an instructor who is: Respectful Knowledgeable Approachable Engaging Communicative Organized Responsive Professional Humorous For distance education streams students looked for instructors who are: Respectful Responsive Knowledgeable Approachable Communicative…

  • Changes with 2.8

    Last week, in addition to the noise around Facebook, there was also another vanity URL oriented geek event. WordPress 2.8 was released and it was the first time since 2.7 that a full .X upgrade was available to users over the new automated update system. In typical WordPress fashion, everything generally went smooth (one install…

  • Don Tapscott on millenials as information streamers

    The lecture is becoming defunct… it’s a bad model of pedagogy – [the empty vessel idea] is a bad way of learning, we need a more sophiticated model… a hyperlinked stream of information is where we are going. Donald’s book, Growing Up Digital has certainly ruffled a few feathers and a couple weeks ago he…