My StrengthsQuest Results

During the Spring 2010 week of accountability, we had the New Faculty Experience group participate in a StrengthsQuest professional development day. Prior to the day, we all had to take the StrengthsQuest assessment to get our top five strengths. The following are my top five areas with my quick reflections on examples of how I fit the category:

• INPUT: People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information. I …
  ...Continued | June 20 2010 | Comments
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  Researching about Mobile Learning

  I was awarded a grant for this past summer to do so (secondary) researching, reading, thinking, and dialoging about mobile learning (specifically with mobile devices). I was supposed to be writing stuff up as I went; ah, well…
  Since I’m officially back to school this week, I’ve got to kick into the reporting out phase. I admit, it’s playing a little catch up as well; however, the work gets done! This morning I was hanging up laundry and listening to Slacker Radio on my Blackberry Storm. …

  ...Continued | August 27 2009 | Comments
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  In Praise of Twitter

  Getting purple tipped hair in SL to match purple streaked hair in RL $300ishL,
  Getting purple boots to match purple tipped hair $300ishL,
  Shopping in SL with good friends in RL who live on different sides of the US...priceless!

  pic of Kix and I (Puppytoes) bald in Second Life
  
  After today, my Follow Cost in Twitter is definitely going to go up! As of today, my follow cost is 2.27 …

  ...Continued | November 05 2008 | Comments
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  Peer Review and Radiohead

  I know what the hell do peer review, or scholarship in general, have to do with Radiohead? But come on, isn’t “you give us what you think it is worth” the ultimate form of review?

  Carlson @ TechHerding asks a good question about what would happen to technical training if it were to happen via the Radiohead model. I also think …

  ...Continued | January 02 2008 | Comments
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  Audio and Visual Journals

  While I’ve tried to get myself blogging more often (I’ve got a backlog of blog posts from a conference this past weekend...coming to you sometime this weekend), I’m also testing out other “journaling” methods related to the various projects I’ve got going. First, I’ve been trying to play with simple podcasting, using Gabcast, as a way to journal my activities for our new technology Faculty and Professional Learning FPLC. 

  I had this brainstorm the other night as I was crazily putting together a …

  ...Continued | October 18 2007 | Comments
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  Visible vs. Invisible Work

  For those readers who do not already know, I’ve shifted jobs this academic year. Mesa’s instructional technologist decided she missed the classroom and transferred to a full-time teaching position in the Math department at Scottsdale CC. (Donna...I wish you the happiest!) So, I’m “playing Donna” as I’ve been telling people. I am acting as Mesa’s instructional technologist during the next academic year while we do a full-search for a replacement. Since I’ve started working in this position last July, I’ve realized two things:
  1.I have more patience with my …

  ...Continued | September 11 2007 | Comments
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  The Content is in the Replies

  I know I’m not the only grad student to have realized that occasionally the footnotes of any given text where infinitely more important than the actual text in the document. I think I’ve already harped that blogs will be an important part of scholarship in the 21st century. However, after reading the newspaper posting about one of my colleagues and the Inside Higher Education posting about “The Professor’s Ten Commandments,” I think that like footnotes in some articles, …

  ...Continued | September 11 2007 | Comments
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  Living up to the Title, A Confession

  Just a month or so ago I was discussing with a good geeky friend and colleague, CogDog, about the need for setting up alter egos to test technologies on the internet. Whereas I know this is a good thing, it would construct another layer of usernames and passwords to filter through as I’m playing with new technologies. And then, I can’t really envite some of my trusted friends and colleagues to the sandbox to play with these new technologies unless they have, and I know, they “testing alter egos” …

  ...Continued | September 04 2007 | Comments
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  Let’s make skinny the fashion for scholarship

  Reading Saikat Majumdar’s (2007) opinion piece “The Fetish of Fullness” (College English, 69(6), 642-654), relatively soon after reading Jakob Nielsen’s (2007) “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings” has returned me to thinking about scholarship in the 21st century. Earlier this summer, I blogged about the practicality of conducting SoTL research (and heck, research in general as a two-year college faculty member). I claimed that we should acknowledge that legitimate scholarship might emerge in short bursts based on the context, …

  ...Continued | July 26 2007 | Comments
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  The Practicality of SoTL

  I love the serendipity of reading, reviewing, thinking, etc. For a while I’ve been thinking about a different type of scholarship that I feel I’ve been doing. It is something that emerges out of my context as a researcher at the community college. Although I am invested in doing serious critical research, I am in an environment that focuses on the practice of teaching. Research is both above and beyond my direct responsibilities, teaching, and is really only appreciated if it is directly related to and useful towards my teaching.

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  ...Continued | July 07 2007 | Comments
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