ATLAST Tech Explorations
While participating in the ATLAST Tech Explorations I hope to continue building up on the relationships of “teacher geeks” that I’ve made the past three years during ATLAST. Although I may be one of the helpers/facilitators during this journey, I always learn from working with other faculty. I appreciate hearing what/how/why faculty, and students, can and cannot use different technologies. I am especially happy we are starting with Google+; I …
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| August 13 2011 | CommentsPosted in ATLAST
Mistress of the Salon
I’m excited about the hub-bub I’m surrounded by at the current CyberSalon meeting. Not that I haven’t been thrilled with how the group has blossomed over the past...what...four years?! How cool is it that the idea has spread, both within the state and in North Carolina. I think I’m more excited that today’s meeting represents what I originally imagined when I started the group, a bunch of people gathered around with laptops, drinks, and laughs (we miss you CogDog!). Maybe I’m afraid about …
...Continued | March 11 2011 | CommentsPosted in Cyber Salon
Applying for the Google Teacher Academy
I’m happy to announce I was accepted to the Google Teacher Academy in London on July 29th. Google sent out emails of acceptance last Friday; I excitedly squealed via Twitter and Facebook (I think maybe LinkedIn too). One person responded with a congratulations as well as a “I thought that was for K-12 educators.” I’m writing this blog as a longer response to that tweet…
This summer I’m one of the instructors in one of our MCC Study Abroad …
| June 29 2010 | CommentsPosted in Google
Serving on the Campus & District IRB Boards
Three years ago, our district finally outlined a process to set up an Institutional Review Board. They set up the “full-board” as a overall district entity; but, also set up campus boards for both faculty and student projects. As a more active scholar on my campus, I was asked to do the reviewer training through CITI and serve on our campus IRB (called the College Research Review Committee). Basically the college level IRB could approve exempt and …
...Continued | June 26 2010 | CommentsPosted in MCCCD
Writing for EduKid
During the Fall 2009 semester I did a workshop on Facebook for Mesa Life Options (a community outreach component of MCC). Kate Ali’varius, the editor of EduKid, attended. EduKid is a local non-profit publication for school-age children. Kate asked me to write a technology column for the paper. My first column was about Wikipedia and it was published in the December 2009 issue (page 6). My second column, in the May 2010 issue, …
...Continued | June 18 2010 | CommentsPosted in
Mobile Learning Isn’t Just Making Materials Mobile Accessible
Today I went to the doctors. She gave me a prescription and a coupon for it; however, the coupon had to be activated on the web. I pulled into the pharmacy parking lot, left on the radio, grabbed my phone and started surfing. I was able to activate everything on the phone, go into the pharmacy and get the great discount. The website required that I click through a few pages, fill out a form, etc. Although I definitely needed my zoom button, I was able to navigate everything with relative …
...Continued | January 05 2010 | CommentsPosted in
What I Learned this Past Summer (2009)
I gave me brief presentation about what I learned at conferences this past summer. I talked about listening to Bill Cope present at the Computers & Writing Conference. I really liked his presentation about New Learning and immediately ordered the book. Today I had folks discuss the various differences between in education between the modern past, recent times, and new learning. Since I was asked to present because I’m the tech geek, I also worked in some technologies. I constructed the presentation in Prezi, …
...Continued | August 29 2009 | CommentsPosted in MCCCD
MCCCD Faculty Developers Retreat 2009
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| August 28 2009 | CommentsPosted in MCCCD
Facebook Fan Page for the WGtR
I decided to conduct an orchestrated social networking extravaganza for The Wadsworth Guide to Research (the textbook I co-authored; it finally printed last Fall). On August 1, I made a Blogger blog, Wetpaint wiki, Twitter account and a Facebook fan page.
In the first week we got over 70 fans and now, August 23, we have 121 fans. WOW. I admit, that a large number …
| August 23 2009 | CommentsPosted in WGtR
Mentoring & Social Networking
Once I started teaching at a community college, I figured my days as a mentor would be limited. I figured since I would primarily be working with students enrolled in gen ed courses, I would not be needed as a mentor. I should have known better. As a graduate student, some of the most important mentoring I received was from my peers. And one of my same graduate student peers who I considered a mentor was also a colleague peer mentor when I first got hired. After my first couple years …
...Continued | August 15 2009 | CommentsPosted in