Tag Archives: instructional technology

Chuck Norris Taught Me Everything I Need to Know about Bear Fighting

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Reverend

Soon I will be taking an epic journey to Svalbard, Norway to fight Polar Bears, which promises to be the bava’s greatest challenge yet. But thankfully the internet has training videos for such death defying presentations. I kinda feel like … Continue reading →

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Instructional Technology Council 2010 Annual Conference

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Reverend

The ITC 2010 annual conference was a revelation for me, and in many ways exactly what I needed to re-light my fire for instructional technology. I first heard of the conference last year when I saw that the Briyans were … Continue reading →

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Rorschach’s EdTech Journal, 2-15-10

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Reverend
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Rorschach’s EdTech Journal 2-10-10

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Reverend

There is a new edtech superhero, and he’s watching every one of you!

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We are expendable

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Reverend

“We’re not computers, Sebastian, we’re physical” Audio Sample from Blade Runner I’m not sure I would call Blade Runner one of my favorite movies, because I really don’t think of it in that way. In fact, I don’t really even … Continue reading →

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5 Reasons I don’t like ITunesU

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Reverend

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 →

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The Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories or, a chat with Brian Lamb

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Reverend

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 →

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Me, We

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Reverend

I’m not always so good at sharing my presentation materials because a lot of what I do is improvised at the moment.  I rarely, if ever, have a prepared talk about a specific topic, but develop a conceit around which … Continue reading →

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Just another hole-in-the-wall

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Reverend

Image credit: omphale44‘s “Puerto Rico- Old San Juan Fortress Wall” I’m on the plane back from three days in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I figured I’d try and capture it before it slips away—something which unfortunately happened with … Continue reading →

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Train wreck

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Reverend

For all of you out there who deeply question the “system” model, and the idea of hosting this stuff for an institution and making it work on a larger scale. Today I agree with you,  for we’ve had nothing but … Continue reading →

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