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Category Archives: experimenting
20 Examples from UMW Blogs (Part 2)
Go here to see part one of this series. Jesse Fillerup’s Fredericskburg’s Musician Marketplace This course blog for the History of American Music experiments on several levels, and I think it hearkens back to an off-handed comment Brian Lamb made … Continue reading
20 Examples from UMW Blogs (Part 1)
Mike Bogle sent a tweet last week asking for some examples of educational blogging on UMW Blogs. I didn’t respond, and he probably thought I was ignoring him, but the bava never ignores, rather it absorbs. And given that one … Continue reading
What I like about Duke
Image credit: Duke Yearlook’s “General Library” Seeing Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology’s (CIT) Showcase emerge in my twitter stream today (hashtag #cit2010) made me nostalgic for my time there last year. And when I injected my two cents into the … Continue reading
Seton Hill’s iPad Fail
I really liked Tom Scheinfeldt’s post “iPads and irResponsibility” because it points out the worst kind of conspicuous consumption to garner both attention and students. I mean the freaking homepage of the university redirects to the iPad project page—shameless, even … Continue reading
Cr3d1t
Hey Downes and Cogdog, I invented neighborhood screencast google streetview blogging damn it! You two will never be the bava. NEVER!!! There is a new god of instructional technology, and I am he!!!!! Give credit where credit is due, I … Continue reading
BuddyPress Groups as Courses at the College of Wooster
I was looking at the posts on WPMu Development for Education earlier this morning, and I came across this post from The College of Wooster’s (or should I saw WOOT!ster’s) WPMu/BuddyPress install Voices. The post was about new themes added … Continue reading
MapLib
George Meadows from the Education department here at UMW just turned Martha and I on to MapLib. It’s a tool that basically allows you to add web-based images to the site and lay the Google Maps interface on top of … Continue reading
5 Reasons I don’t like ITunesU
Looks like UMW is getting ITunesU. And while I’ve had nothing to do with the decision process, and I really don’t think it is going to make any significant difference in our environment, I would like to lay out a … Continue reading
The Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories or, a chat with Brian Lamb
Barry Dahl recently blogged the following video he took at the WCET of Brian Lamb chatting about Learning Object Repositories, which provides an excellent overview of the logic of EdTech circa 2001. The idea of educational repositories for content as … Continue reading
The Future of WPMu
There has been a lot of discussion about the future of WPMu with the coming merge of WPMu and WP, and I understand there are concerns and issues all around. I’m not in the business of selling WPMu, so my … Continue reading