It’s been rather busy for me here at work. We’re fully underway now to implement blogging in the Seminar for First Year Students. Exciting, yes, but it does mean I’ve been too busy working with blogs to actually blog myself. I’m also in the midst of setting up course shells in Blackboard for the second [...]
Yesterday started with a special presentation by the president of the college. In addition to being the first staff meeting I’ve been at that started with a prayer (I’m not surprised, I did choose to start working at a Catholic college), it was also a very sobering look at our financial situation. Investors are to [...]
By no means is the topic of Instructional Technology limited to the halls of academia. Because this is a topic of culture, the implications of the technological revolution in daily life are far reaching. Recently I found an excellent article on Digital Literacy in The Economist, a news source far removed from the daily life [...]
Educause is an organization dedicated to the intelligent use of technology to promote higher education. This article from one of their recent Educause Review periodicals does a nice job of summing up several aspects of the field at the moment. From the article:
Today’s faculty members face several instructional technology challenges:
The technology-adoption cycle: Under ideal circumstances, [...]
In the world of technology, there are the Digital Natives, and the Digital Immigrants. This is not an entirely fixed division, and is not made for the purposes of discriminating against one group or the other. Like generational gaps (Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc.) there are cultural divides everywhere, and this is just one way [...]
