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
what am I thinking?
Good question. I’m wondering why I’m inputting my exercises to both Dailymile and Dailyburn (the web 2.0 application formerly known as Gyminee). Really, I do know the answer to this and the fact that the CyberSalon peeps just switched their quarterly challenge from Dailyburn to Dailymile confirms it. The challenge feature in Dailyburn would only allow folks to input one type of exercising (in this case “running") when folks in the challenge were doing lots of other things (walking, hiking, swimming, biking, etc.).
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| July 07 2009 | CommentsPosted in
Local and Regional Conferences
I’m increasingly finding myself attending local and regional conferences and other “events.” I think there are a variety of reasons for attending these events, including:
1. Supporting local/regional organizations and people—they put on this event because they think it is important enough to do so, and most of the time I agree with them. And although sometimes it’s tiring to attend (you know, after a full week of work)…these folks have been working hard for multiple weeks to put this show together.
2. Cheap professional engagement—by attending …
| November 03 2008 | CommentsPosted in