Can You Digg It? at Cengage English Event in San Antonio

Cengage, the publisher of The Wadsworth Guide to Research (the textbook Susan & I co-authored), hosted three English Professional Development events during the Spring 2010 semester: Orlando, San Antonio, and Phoenix. These two day events brought together "local" English faculty with Cengage authors (and a few others) who presented about various topics and issues in English, specifically Composition. Susan presented at the Orlando event, while I covered the San Antonio and Phoenix events. (Although I miss Susan terribly, sometimes it is handy to have us on different …

...Continued | February 27 2010 | Comments
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Can You Digg It? Alternate Search Engines & Media Repositories Webinar

I was very excited to start the Can You Digg It? Using Web Applications to Facilitate Research and Writing: Webinar Series this spring at LearnCentral. The first webinar about Alternate Search Engines & Media Repositories was great! We started off with my current favorite poll (done in PollEverywhere) asking participants to "fess up" and admit whether or not they too use Google and read Wikipedia. This poll will definitely be recycled throughout the various Can You Digg It events this spring. I think …

...Continued | February 26 2010 | Comments
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Can you Digg it? at GWCC

Doing a one hour (that turned into 1.5 hour) workshop Can You Digg It? workshop GateWay Community College (GWCC) kicked off the various incarnations of the Can You Digg It? Spring 2010 series. I was excited about the GWCC event because it would give me the opportunity to practice condensing what already wouldn’t fit in 3.5 hours into 90 minutes (which I would be doing twice again for my publisher’s English Composition Events in San Antonio and Phoenix). I love presenting at GWCC; first, they have a …

...Continued | February 25 2010 | Comments
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workshop: Can You Digg It? at 2009 EDUCAUSE

The Can You Digg It?: Incorporating Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube into Multimedia Research Assignments that Susan and I facilitated at EDUCAUSE in November 2009 kicked off a series of Can You Digg It workshops we’re delivering during the Spring 2010 semester.  Like many of my workshops at this point, this one did not develop out of a vacuum. Obviously it emerged from a variety of things; however, the two main precursors were the writing of The Wadsworth Guide to Research and the development of Creating Research …

...Continued | February 24 2010 | Comments
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Committing to Brilliance by Reading RSS Feeds

Since we published a textbook on research, our publishers approached Susan and I about helping them develop a workshop about “cultivating intellectual curiosity.” Of course, I took the “geeky” direction and started suggesting different technologies with RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals being the first three. As we continued to bounce around ideas, I came up with the phrase “Hacking Innovation.” Although I only did the one hours “Committing to Brilliance by Reading RSS Feeds” workshop at the retreat, I developed the draft of the entire ...Continued | January 27 2010 | Comments
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