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Category Archives: Blogging as a Teaching and Research Tool
More Vision for the UMW Teaching Center
Our institution will soon embark on a strategic planning initiative. What common mission binds us together as a faculty at UMW? I would say that our mission is to provide quality liberal and professional education at a public university price. … Continue reading
Insights on Fanny & Freddie
This post interests me on several levels: the connected nature of media today; contemporary economic issues, specifically the difficulties being faced by Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac due to the mortgage market meltdown; and the issue of the market system … Continue reading
Second Assignment for this Week’s TLT Fellows Meeting
The second thing we were asked to do for this week’s meeting was to identify a couple of bloggers from our disciplines. I can recommend four blogs: 1. Grasping Reality With Both Hands: Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal – Very high … Continue reading
TLT Fellows Projects
I have the privilege this year of participating on our school’s Teaching and Learning Technology Fellows program, a faculty development program for instructors interested in incorporating instructional technology into their teaching. Participants meet weekly for a semester and explore IT … Continue reading
Lanny Arvan on Plagiarism
Lanny Arvan has a very thoughtful recent post on plagiarism in blogging. You can find it here.
Is it a presentation or a paper? No, it’s a WordPress blog.
I just finished a presentation on teaching with social software at the Developments in Economics Education Conference held at Cambridge University. I actually drafted a paper for this conference, something I hadn’t managed for the last several presentations I had … Continue reading
My Blogging Practices
Martha’s last post raised some very interesting questions about blogging practice. Here are my responses (in italics): Generally, are you an impetuous blogger? Or do you mull over an idea or post for hours, days, weeks before hand? Do you … Continue reading
Is this what (some) students feel about blogging?
I had an another insight at the faculty academy last month. In courses where I ask students to blog, I always set up a class blog for myself. I feel like it’s the right thing to do to model what … Continue reading
Questions about blogging pedagogy
One of the things I noticed at this year’s faculty academy was number of thoughtful questions about blogging as pedagogy that came up. Here is a list of the ones I remember: * How can we catalyze the process of … Continue reading
The Power of Context
Last week, I finally got around to reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, a fascinating argument for how institutional change comes about (or not). Gladwell identifies three rules for effective change: The Law of the Few, The Stickiness Factor, and … Continue reading