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Planning for the Fall
While I haven’t blogged much this summer, here is a list of things that I’ve thought about, and that have informed my planning for the Fall 2007 semester. • Start with a plan – It’s important to start the semester … Continue reading
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More on Technological Proficiency
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the difficulty of defining what colleagues at UMW called “Technological Proficiency”. Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to the ELI Fall Focus Session in Boulder, CO. The theme of the focus session is Being … Continue reading
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Is College Supposed to Be Education or Training?
This is a question I’ve blogged about before, here, here and here for example. I know we say college is supposed to be education (or Real School), but more often than one might like if you look at what actually … Continue reading
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First Year Advising Curriculum?
I’ve been ‘working’ on a project this summer. Great concept: but not enough follow through. As a last ditch attempt to make some progress, I thought I’d appeal to the Brian Lamb–Alan Levine school of inspiration and ask for help … Continue reading
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More on Student Metacognition and Motivation
My latest favorite blogger is Lanny Arvan. (Thanks Martha!) Aside from being a fallen economist turned instructional technologist, he’s a fascinating and deep blogger. One of his (relatively) recent posts struck a chord as it related to my interest in … Continue reading
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Want a Second Opinion in Your Course Lectures?
Some time ago I blogged about self-directed college learning using the BBC’s In Our Time podcast series. Brian Lamb reports that you can go a step further with Openculture: Stanford Courses Available as Free Podcasts. How cool is that? At … Continue reading
New Media Final Projects Session: A Comment
Jeff recently blogged on the final project in Gardner’s New Media course. Gardner’s discussion is here. Talk about taking it to another level–wow! I’m sorry I missed it. Jeff talked about the energy generated by this project, both for the … Continue reading
Is Technological Proficiency a Skill, or Something Bigger?
This summer I’ve been involved in our school’s efforts to revise our general education requirements. In the course of our discussions we raised the question of what constitutes technological proficiency appropriate to a liberal education in the early 21st century. … Continue reading
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Response to Gardner
It’s taken me a week or so to reflect on Gardner’s post. As I suspected, like a fine wine the post improved with age—or at least my understanding of it did. Mike Caulfield started the thread: [O]ne of the paradoxes … Continue reading
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Our 2007 ELI Presentation (finally!)
I know this is kid stuff for many of you, but I’ve never done it before, which is part of the reason I’ve managed to procrastinate for so long. Here at long last are the audio and the powerpoint (below) … Continue reading
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