A bit about me
Welcome to my blog! I am interested in educational technology, instructional design, online teaching and learning, and everything in between. By day I am an instructional designer of online college...
View ArticleAndragogy vs. Pedagogy
From Malcolm Knowles: Apostle of Andragogy the greatest danger to the survival of civilization today is not atomic warfare, not environmental pollution, not the population explosion, not the depletion...
View ArticleHow long before Prezi is the standard?
On the free stuff for educators front – Victory! Prezi is this cool new software that takes the linear nature out of presentations, and makes them more like a big graphic organizer or related scene,...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Obsolete the Social Promotion Debate
In an education system that truly uses differentiated instruction, the issue of social promotion would become almost irrelevant. Every teacher knows that in a 1st grade classroom of 30 students, there...
View ArticleVideo Bio Screencast
Click image to open video in a new window. This video is a brief (60 second) bio about my current positions in education as well as my passions in this area. It was recorded using the free version of...
View ArticleOne Time in Computer Class…
Do you ever cringe at the thought of how you or your classmates terrorized a teacher growing up? Here is a podcast about a funny thing that happened with technology, though my teacher didn’t think it...
View ArticleMy First MOOC
Today I signed up for my first MOOC using Coursera. The course is called “Model Thinking” and is taught by Scott E. Page from University of Michigan. The Welcome message says, “In this free, online...
View ArticlePinterest Use in Education
In a February 2012 blog post for iddblog.org, I admitted my guilty pleasure of “pinning,” and asked: Does Pinterest Have a Place in Education? One year later, this amazing infographic on the use of...
View ArticleFirst MOOC Quiz – Aced it!
Today I took the first quiz in “Model Thinking,” the massive open online course (MOOC) I enrolled in using Coursera. The quizzes are set up to allow three attempts, and only the highest score is...
View ArticleMOOC Entry to Mainstream Gets Closer
I’m not sure if Clayton Christensen would agree, but it’s looking like MOOCs are the latest disruptive innovation in education. They’re cheap and currently only serving the fringes of the educational...
View ArticleA bit about me
Welcome to my blog! I am interested in educational technology, instructional design, online teaching and learning, and everything in between. By day I am an instructional designer of online college...
View ArticleA bit about me
Welcome to my blog! I am interested in educational technology, instructional design, online teaching and learning, and everything in between. By day I am an instructional designer of online college...
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