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I need examples I can replicate please
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010I recently attended a regional conference on Mobile Learning in higher education and came away with some conflicting emotions.
First, it was a little curious that the two presentations and mLearning panelists were exclusively from large private institutions. Don’t misunderstand me, I have nothing but respect for the institutions that shared their mLearning projects, which, by the way, were pretty impressive. [...]
Academic Affairs Technology Plan at Keene State College
Thursday, December 18th, 2008After laboring over the academic affairs technology plan for over a year, through many iterations, we’re finally done. Or at least done until its annual review.
Have a peek. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not about technology. Really, it’s not. It’s about learning, teaching, and work.
Go on, have a look.
Keene State College Academic [...]
Answering the “so what”
Thursday, November 27th, 2008I’ve never fully embraced the “digital natives/digital immigrants” label of Marc Prensky but I’ve used it often to describe the differences between young, tech savvy students and the their older less plugged-in teachers. It was an easy label to adopt because, on the surface, it made sense. Walk across a college campus and you see [...]
We’re turning the ship
Friday, July 11th, 2008I just left a 2-hour meeting with a group committed to shaping the mission and vision for academic technology. It’s very encouraging because we’re all pretty much on the same page and believe that we need to communicate our values about teaching and learning before we begin to have conversations about applications, hardware, enterprise systems, [...]
Annual reports on my mind
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Wow, it’s July….JULY…already! It’s time for reflection and annual reports.
So much has happened at KSC that it’s hard to take a fair inventory of the changes that have happened over the year. Listing them hardly seems interesting. Singling out one, two, or even five events subtly means that something left out is somehow less significant. [...]
411 on academic technology
Friday, April 11th, 2008So today was the day that the ATSC (academic technology steering committee) held an information forum on the college’s Academic Technology Vision that Mike Caulfield (http://mikecaulfield.com), Irene Herold, and I drafted last fall. The idea is that the document will help inform requests, initiatives, and plans involving academic technology so that they align [...]
Tapping the Environment
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I just returned from sleuthing in search of examples of student multimedia projects with an academic purpose. It’s amazing to think that I thought first to use Google to find examples, (and I did find some good ones!), when stellar examples were right here under foot!
Tracy Mendham teaches English at Keene State and is well [...]