Tag: Technology Integration
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Wii little Nike
One of the things that I hope to be able to do this year, after surgery a year ago and Bug arriving in February was to be able to run a half marathon and to get back to my “wedding weight”. I’m just shy of both goals today. With a little luck with the weather,…
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Flu proofing your course
This afternoon I was tasked with coming up with a Faculty plan for dealing with the impending threat of flu. After much searching, I came up with the follow chunk of codified common sense: Planning Ahead Consider using eClass to store your course materials (or Moodle if you are teaching in Computing Science), use online…
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Young teachers, no technology… ’cause that isn’t content.
Over lunch today, two of my friends who are both young teachers (one in Edmonton and one in Calgary) and I met for lunch. The conversation came around to teaching different courses and both said that they wouldn’t take their kids into the computer labs, or even teach using the computers until well into the…
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Portugal’s Technology Integration
Huffington Post is not usually a place where I would normally look for a edtech story, but somehow I came across this one by Don Tapscott. Tapscott points out that Portugal was suffering in 2005 until the government decided to make sure that students had access to the ‘net. The kicker to the success of…
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If it ain’t personal, it isn’t professional
If you don’t use tech, per se, in your daily life, at all levels, and you’re not comfortable with it, then it’s unlikely that you’re going to be as speedy (to embrace) technology,” noted Dr. ToddRothenhaus, senior vice president and chief information officer of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second-largest provider in Massachusetts. “If you’re…