Teaching Using Tech: Philosophy of Higher Education, Part 2

I’ve been filling out teaching/education-related job application and I was met with this little gem: Please describe your knowledge of pedagogy associated with various instructional modalities, i.e. face-­to-­face, hybrid, and online Having taught students from Kindergarten to eighth grade, freshmen bachelor’s and second career master’s students, the courses I’ve created must be simple to navigate, have numerous interdisciplinary connections and

6 Levels Towards Virtual Worlds

I’ve been thinking about the decades old promises of virtual reality and how my graduate students have responded to their first experiences with Second Life and thought that an info-graphic break down of virtual reality might help us approach the subject with less anxiety or frustration. It really comes down to thinking of the ol’ “right tool for the right

What Do Online Educators Do: Tools of the Trade

Many years ago, when I was describing my job as a tech specialist at my school to an in-law she responded with a dismissive, Oh, so you’re not really a teacher anymore. Wow, talk about taking the air out of my sails. There are so many wrong headed and largely nostalgic notions about what educators do that it’s not too

The BYOD Option & Addressing Gary Stager’s Objections to BYOD

This post is based on a portion of the talk on the mobile-tech invasion of our classrooms that I gave at CUE@macworld2012 this past January. Enjoy. Speakers notes and references following the video.

Removing One Barrier to Learning w/ Posted Calendars

One can never underestimate how important classroom layout is. I think it was back in 1995 when I was student teaching that I met a teacher who taught either 5th or 6th grade in Garden Grove. This was back in the VUE (Video Using Educator) days and a group of us were visiting his classroom to check out how he’d

Ed Tech: Computer Labs versus Classroom Computers

Ed Tech: Computer Labs versus Classroom Computers It’s traditional that the showcase of any school with a halfway decent tech program is their computer lab. Go to any school site and if they want to show off their tech program they will invariably give you the VIP tour of all the great things they’re doing in their computer lab. But