Shelley Jetson

This 2007-8 academic year I am co-facilitating a Faculty and Professional Learning Community (FPLC, pronounced fiplick). Biray and I are heading up the “Keeping Up with the Jetsons” new technology FPLC. In general, our goals are to explore new technologies and to participate in a group that is trying to critically incorporate, and assess, using these new technologies. As a part of the playing with new technologies we currently have a group wiki as well as a ...Continued | September 23 2007 | Comments
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WWDD?

I’ve been “successful” as a two-year college faculty member. After five years, I just gotten “tenure” (or out of probation status). I’ve been teaching, researching, and doing institutional and disciplinary service.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t been successful with finishing my doctorate. When I was hired I had just finished my doctoral coursework. Over the past five years I’ve completed my comps, proposed my dissertation topic/project, and collected data. I have been sitting on my data for two years now. I’ve gotten some writing done, but obviously …

...Continued | September 17 2007 | Comments
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LMS Crash, Are you Ready?

This morning I met with our district CIO, Darrel Huish. We talked about a variety of things, include some of his ponderings with how Blackboard ran, or did not run, during the first couple weeks of school. Those of us at Mesa, where we have the Blackboard labeled system formally know as WebCT, just breathed high sighs of relief. However, Darrel had a wonderful point today. Do faculty really have a “back-up plan” if IT goes down. It can (I firmly believe it’s only a question of when)! So how are …

...Continued | September 11 2007 | Comments
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Cyber Salon: Technology and Politics

Last night, the Cyber Salon met at Brunellos, which is now becoming the Village Idiot. Descent food, wine, and beer; good wireless connection, and 20% discount! Veronica and I spent most of the evening talking about things happening in the district. I thought we had some good chats about

• open source (can we do it at a CC w/o cheap computer science grad student labor?),
• podcasting (I claimed that I don’t think most of our colleague’s “get” the syndicated element of it...they just equate podcasting …
  ...Continued | September 11 2007 | Comments
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  First Cyber Salon

  Well, it happened. Six of us met this last Monday to geek out and drink some beer. Of course, as those us who teach with technology know, the technology failed. The wireless connection at Fibbers was extremely week (sorry Laura & Susan). However, those of us who were there had some great discussions about the “net generation” of college students and the reality of our students at the community college. We talked about using wikis and podcasting in the classroom (thanks for great ideas Alisa). Matt shared Plazes …

  ...Continued | August 15 2007 | Comments
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  First Meeting

  It looks like second Mondays is what is going to work best with this group. I admit, I’ll be off to a conference during November gathering; hopefully, by then we’ll be off to a good start and just keep rolling.

  What: First Cyber Salon meeting
  When: Monday, August 13, 4:30ish -->
  Where: Fibber MaGees Pub

  Homework:

  1. be prepared to chat for a few minutes about one or two current techy/geeky projects
  2. email me …

  ...Continued | July 26 2007 | Comments
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  Introducing the Cyber Salon

  I’ve been bouncing around this idea for a while of emulating the salons of the enlightenment and the expat-writers in Paris.  The idea started to grow on me this past January when two colleagues and I hung out in a computer lab together for about an hour. We hadn’t seen one another for quite a while. We sat their talking, catching up and bouncing ideas, while we “worked” on computers. Once we knew what one another was doing for projects or wanted to share something we had just mentioned we would …

  ...Continued | June 28 2007 | Comments
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  Social Bookmarking, my dead horse

  (beware…my frustration leads to the blatantly horrible mixing of metaphors)
  

  I’m beginning to feel like my social bookmarking crusade is turning into the continued beating of a dead horse who sure as hell doesn’t want to drink the damn water. I was a huge fan of Furl for years. And as I got more interested in the “social” aspects of bookmarking, I’ve become a devote delicious user. And it seems like I’m always finding new and cool things (firefox plugins, greasemonkey scripts, etc.) that work with …

  ...Continued | April 03 2007 | Comments
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  MCLI/Ocotillo Jetsons Workshops

  So…I facilitated two “new” technology workshops in our district this semester (2/24 and 3/1). I forgot what I originally wanted to name the workshops; however, because people wanted the name more descriptive, we got: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Social Bookmarking. Since I still think “Keeping up with the Jetsons” rings true; that was the working title in the workshop itself. Overall, I thought we did a good job of trying to cover four technologies in three and half hours. According to the workshop evaluations, …

  ...Continued | March 17 2007 | Comments
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