CogDog, throw a girl a bone!
While flying to various professional events, I can either be extremely productive (grading, or like this past Wednesday night, I read both the 2010 Horizon Report and The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009) or not (like this past Sunday when I finished Blood Magic and piled through most of Unknown). This is a reflection about the results of being productive yet unconnected. So last Wednesday I’m flying to San Antonio to an English Professional Development event being hosted by my publisher, Cengage. I …
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| February 23 2010 | CommentsPosted in Reading
Encouraging Digital Media
I’m trying to more systematically work in the reading, reflecting, and sometimes responding (if it’s an online text with a response space) to various scholarly texts. You know, keeping up with the profession. Of course, trying to follow multiple disciplines is difficult, but it keeps me out of trouble (kinda sorta). Today I read Debra Journet’s (2007) “Inventing myself in multimodality: Encouraging senior faculty to use digital media” (Computers and Composition, 24, 107-120). Obviously this will be something that will be extremely useful in wrapping up the dissertation! I really liked …
...Continued | July 25 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
Inherent Value?
< rant > IMHO, this article was a waste of publication. Well duh that podcasting doesn’t have inherent pedagogical value and that the context (teacher, environment, students, etc.) and how/why it is implemented impact its pedagogical value. I guess I’m just surprise that people out there still believe any technology has inherent pedagogical value. Whereas I’m the first to agree that technologies do have ideological baggage from their initial purpose (i.e.Windows GUI environment privileges a WASP middle class, etc. perspective that understands traditional “office” metaphors); however, I also believe …
...Continued | July 11 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
Requiring Change
As a part of my desire to get more engaged in our various scholarly discussion, I posted a discussion response to a colleague’s posting about wikis in the Kairos Praxis wiki. In this posting I wrote about a topic that was really triggered in my mind in various discussions at the 2007 Computers and Writing conference. The problem: what is the difference between how learn a new technology when it is required, versus being optional? In other words, I’m starting to cringe whenever I hear “my students learned …
...Continued | June 27 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
The Net Generation—Richardson part 3
Warning—this message is definitely more of a rant In his book, Richardson spends a little time talking about what Educause, and others, refers to as the Net Generation. Clearly since Richardson is focused on K-12, his audience does fit that category more—at least the middle and upper class school populations. I think many university scholars researching and writing on this subject, again check out Educause’s yearly report on the techyness of college students, also make grandiose statements about the tech savvyness of incoming college students.Folks…drop by …
...Continued | January 26 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
Ethics-Richardson Part II
I am again responding to Will Richardson‘s book… …Context: I’m on a plane flying to Corpus Christi for a meeting on an executive committee I accidentally got myself elected to. I’m missing one of our podcasting FPLC meetings and we were going to talk about some chapters from the book. I’m also writing these as my contribution to the discussion…Again, chapter one grabbed me when Richardson started talking about the safety of using these tools. It’s finally gotten me to reflect on the ethics of teaching with these …
...Continued | January 26 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
Techs as Civic Duty
Teaching with Web2.0 (read/write web) Techs as Civic Duty—Richardson part 1 As if I didn’t already have enough to do (snort!), this academic year I am participating in MCC’s new Faculty & Professional Learning Communities (FPLC—pronounced fip-lick). Now yes, of course no time (dissertation, what dissertation); however, I feel it is important to demo and contribute to building an environment of scholarship on our campus. So…I’m participating in the one technology focused one, podcasting!Anyhow…all that to say I just finished reading the intro/chapter 1, podcasting chater, and conclusion/final chapter of …
...Continued | January 26 2007 | CommentsPosted in Reading
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