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Category Archives: Blogging as a Teaching and Research Tool
Students Still Blogging
It’s little more than a week past graduation, but two of my senior seminar students have recently posted on their respective blogs. Both posts were quite thoughtful and reflective. The first was from my star blogger of the semester. At … Continue reading
2007 UMW Faculty Academy
A couple of weeks ago, I previewed the upcoming Faculty Academy. I want to let people know that the conference publicity and Call for Papers is out.
A little comic relief for late in the academic year
If you need a little chuckle to lighten your mood as we get near the end of the term, you might like to check out this blog post from a student in my international finance seminar. (I’ll be blogging more … Continue reading
Stray thoughts
What does it mean when students read and even comment on faculty blogs? Doesn’t that show a different, even higher level of engagement when students essentially participate in a faculty discussion?
Liftoff in the Seminar?
Today we conducted the third in our series of tech tools sessions, this one introducing students to flickr. After getting students registered, we (and by “we” I mean Martha and Jerry) showed the students how to locate photos tagged with … Continue reading
Comment on Martha’s Getting Past the Blog Block: Part 2
Martha’s been blogging about writer’s block with respect to her blog. Here is my comment on her second installment: First off, I have nothing to say that you don’t already know. But let me ignore that point. The way to … Continue reading
Course Design Process for U2.0?
I had an amazing experience yesterday, a “consultation†with Gardner and his staff of IT Specialists: Jerry, Martha, Andy, Jim and Patrick. Also present was Charlotte Houtchens, one of our reference librarians. The purpose of the consultation was to think … Continue reading
Will Richardson’s Book
I just finished reading Will Richardson’s book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. As you might expect, it’s an excellent entry-level primer for incorporating Web 2.0 tools into the classroom, including both why you would want … Continue reading
Technology as a Liberal Art
I recently came across this excellent article by Laura Blankenship published in Inside Higher Education. The article starts as a defense of technology in the liberal arts, but goes far beyond that to make another case for University 2.0. As … Continue reading
Another Sign that Blogging is Going Mainstream
Today’s Washington Post has an article on blogging as an educational tool. It’s not too bad an article, even though it puts a bit more emphasis than I would prefer on the “personal journal place to complain to one’s peers … Continue reading