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Masters of Our Domain Names: UMW to Pilot Domain of One’s Own

What’s gotten lost in all the attention around the ds106 Kickstarter is the fact that on Friday DTLT sat down with UMW’s Chief Information Office, the inimitable Justin Webb, to work out the details for an initial pilot launch of … Continue reading

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You know what, DTLT is pretty sick right now

The semester has been flying by, here we are in week 10, two-thirds through and I have to say we here at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies are moving at a pretty amazing clip. It’s as if everything … Continue reading

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Cellular Storytelling

UMW Biology professor Steve Gallik has dreamed up a very cool approach for students in his Histology lab to share and comment on what’s under the microscope. Rather than purchasing expensive camera-ready digital microscopes, he worked with the UMW Teaching Center … Continue reading

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Eduglu Revisited: The Syndication Bus 2012

It’s been more than a year since I’ve really thought, no less written about, the syndication bus as it relates to ds106. For any of you who might be new to the idea of the syndication bus, it’s an approach … Continue reading

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DTLT controls the Vertical and the Horizontal

Two weeks ago the DTLT group presented at the Educause Midatlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The panel discussion covered ds106—what else is there? Martha Burtis provided an overview of the course, Tim Owens the technical framework, I featured the … Continue reading

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UMW Blogs: A 2011 Snapshot

Here are the number for UMW Blogs for all of 2011. 1,530,580 Visits 1,049,706 Unique Visitors 3,417,021 Pageviews 2.23 Pages/Visit 00:01:48 Avg. Time on Site The stats never cease to mesmerize me, even though they are plateauing. But if you stop for a second and … Continue reading

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Traffic on UMW Blogs and a few notes

Yesterday was the last day of the Fall semester so I took a quick screenshot of traffic on UMW Blogs in Google Analytics over the last four months, which looks like this: Which made me think, how does this compare … Continue reading

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Who’s afraid of the big bad #sopa?

…I am! And in the latest episode of DTLT Today Boone and Wally Gorges lay out a pretty compelling case why anyone doing anything related to open education online in higher education should be too. Boone and Wally brilliantly talked … Continue reading

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DTLT Today’s 100th Episode

I guess today is a day of milestones, not only has the bava turned six years old today marking my sixth year at UMW, but DTLT Today has cranked out its 100th episode—which is a pretty amazing feat.  When Tim … Continue reading

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The World’s Craziest Educational Videos feat. ds106

I’m not sure the K12 Online Conference is over yet, and I’m also not sure where the discussion for that conference is taking place—anyone? But I did want to go ahead and share the entire 21 minute video we created … Continue reading

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