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Tag Archives: teaching and learning
Instructional Technology is not Information Technology
Wow! Luke Waltzer just nailed a strategic plan outlining the future of instructional technology at CUNY. Honest, fair, and to the point, an amazing post about why instructional technology needs to be taken ever more seriously as an integral part … Continue reading
Blogfesores 2009: “Sharing is the Nature of Creation”
Mario Accepting a well-deservd award for being the OG Blogfesor Image credit: Grisrodrig’s “Mario Nuñez and Cristina Pomales” It seems like I was at Blogfesores 2009 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico two months ago, but it has only been a little … Continue reading
UMW Blogs featured in EDUCAUSE’s 7 Things for PLEs
Yesterday I noticed (thanks to tweets from Jeff McClurken and Martha Burtis) that EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About Personal Learning Environments” features the University of Mary Washington as one of the schools experimenting and fostering PLEs on a … Continue reading
Blogfesores 2009: Contenido Abierto!
It’s a great honor to have been invited to talk at the Third Congress of Blogfesores in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, this Friday, May 8th. I’ve been following the work of a number of people in Puerto Rico for a while … Continue reading
University of Virginia and WPMu? Wahoo!
In September of 2007 Steve Stedman invited Patrick and I to UVA to talk about the work we were doing with WPMu and UMW Blogs. It was somewhat difficult to get folks to meet with us, and we really didn’t … Continue reading
Young Gun for Hire: A DTLT Graduate
In less than a week’s time Serena Epstein will be graduating from UMW, and will therefore no longer be working for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. And even though we fight like cats and dogs, it pains me … Continue reading
Mozilla Open Education course
(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and … Continue reading
UMW Blogs ain’t no open PR ploy, we’re the real deal Holyfield!
I was talking with professor Marjorie Och recently about her Venice Exhibit, and when we went to the site I noticed the Firestats meter said there were well over 5,000 unique visitors and more than 11,000 pages served. Why this … Continue reading
Get a real job, hippies!
Image credit: Hippies de Valdivia (Chile) by leo.prie.to Tired of singing the same old song about teaching, learning, and technology to an apathetic audience? Want to liberate yourself from those degrading improv gigs in the campus commons to anyone who … Continue reading
A domain of one’s own
It was recently announced by Mary Washington’s new president that the next academic year (2009/2010) will be “The Year of the Digital Campus” at UMW. While I think we are uniquely positioned to make the most of this idea, I … Continue reading