After reading Natalie Smith’s post on the “Audio-Video Adaptation of Hughes’s ‘The Weary Blues’”, I suddenly remembered that about a year ago, while digitizing a good amount of audio from the James Farmer archive at UMW, I had come across an unmarked tape that had over had over 40 minutes of Langston Hughes reading and [...]
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Langston Hughes’s “Ku Klux Klan”
Published by November 9th, 2008 in insructional technology. 0 CommentsWhat is an instructional technologist?
Published by October 30th, 2008 in insructional technology. 18 CommentsYesterday I was asked by a good friend and mentor the following question: “What’s next?” And it made me stop and think, I guess since I don’t have a Ph.D. and I’m in “IT” I should be thinking about an administrative position, right? I mean you can’t be an instructional technologist forever, right? It’s just [...]
Out of Print: Building a Digital Environment for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
Published by October 24th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, open education, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 1 CommentD’Arcy Norman and I co-presented at the Open Education Conference last year, and I recently had the opportunity to re-watch our talk thanks to the good folks at COSL that both recorded the sessions and put them up on Google video.
The presentation was an important one for me in retrospect, because of its pure and [...]
Syndication-Oriented Architecture, or a Feed Frenzied Framework!
Published by October 2nd, 2008 in Uncategorized and insructional technology. 3 CommentsJon Udell has mentioned the idea of Syndication-Oriented Architecture a couple of times over the the last year of so. One of the things I’ve been trying to spell outabout UMW Blog is how it in many ways is trying to approximate a Syndication-Oriented Architechture using a very hodgepodge collection of plugins and widgets.
What does [...]
The UMW Blogs Story
Published by September 26th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsThe following questions come from an email conversation Shawn Miller and I had about the genesis and guiding logic of UMW Blogs. Shawn is a member of Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology, and the group is interested in hearing more about the ways we are using blogs here at Mary Washington. If all [...]
…I love Tony Hirst! And let there be no confusion, the stuff he is doing at OpenLearn makes me giddy with excitement. Case in point, take a look at the latest developments in the OU Course Spamming saga he and his people have whipped up. I really am lucky to be working when I am, [...]
I <3 Consumerism
Published by August 31st, 2008 in Internet Archive and insructional technology. 1 CommentSpeech, YouTube, and WordPress
Published by August 24th, 2008 in YouTube and insructional technology. 0 CommentsLast semester, Professor John Morello’s “Communication and Political Campaigns” class did something interesting with UMW Blogs. Rather than thinking of the class blog as a semester long activity for writing and reflecting (which is always good), he used it for one specific assignment. The blog provided a space where students could upload, categorize, and receive [...]
Virgil, Blabberize, and 50 Ways to Applaud CogDog
Published by August 24th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, digital storytelling and insructional technology. 1 CommentThis Summer I had the good fortune of working with professor Angela Gosetti-MurrayJohn and the students of her “The Classical Tradition” course. I would like to say I came up with some original and elaborate EdTech scheme to change the world through mediated mean, but I didn’t. However, Angela did by pushing her class [...]
Course Mangement Systems as the Gentrification of EdTech
Published by July 24th, 2008 in films, insructional technology and movies. 22 CommentsImage thanks to Lulu Vision
Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]
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