Category Archives: experimenting

Am I a Community-Based Learning Network Specialist?

I find myself coming back to this question a lot as the semester has come to a speedy close. Having a bit of time to reflect on some of the work we accomplished at UMW this semester, I keep on … Continue reading

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But where’s the teaching and learning?

On Friday I had the pleasure to present with Matt Gold and Mikhail Gershovich at the 2007 CUNY IT conference on the possibilities for Open Source tools in the classroom. This was a particularly fun presentation because we all go … Continue reading

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If you build it, they will come …

While I hated the film Field of Dreams (almost as much as I hate the acting persona of Kevin Costner), I will shamelessly utilize an oft abused quote from that film. After speaking with Amanda McCuskey (a sophomore at UMW, … Continue reading

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Here’s the Scoop …

Tim O’Donnell, a speech professor here at UMW, has designed (with Ross Smith at Wake Forst University) a really cool tool that enables each of their classes to interact (more precisely, debate) online. The class site is called arguendo.com, and … Continue reading

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Augmentation, baby!

I, and everyone else in DTLT (and quite possibly the greater DC area), have been hearing a lot about augmenting the learning process from Gardner as of late. And while his enthusiasms are by no means lost on me, sometimes … Continue reading

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Blogs: the look of the future?

Matthew Levine’s article “In Search of the Holy Grail” on A List Apart offers a straight-forward way to incorporate a three column layout for web designers with lean code, minimal CSS, and a consistent code order, heretofore a sloppy and … Continue reading

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