How to Upgrade Yourself
Last week’s soapbox blog asked everyone to upgrade their use of technology. Now let’s get to the more practical advice–how to upgrade. There are…
Higher Ed and Technology: Academics at Chapman
Measuring Learning
This YouTube video created by EDUCAUSE has me thinking that after hundreds and even thousands of years, we still don’t have a grasp on…
Are you ready to be Googled?
No matter what your current career stage–on the job market, or are applying to present at a conference, or publishing a new monograph–you will…
Calming the Anxious Student
This semester has been a tough one for my students. We had illness, car accidents, senior capstone stress, and the typical spring fever–all of…
That time I failed
Yesterday I was talking about final grades with my students. It’s that time in the semester that I tend to lose the interest of…
The Future of Learning
As I referenced in a recent blog post, self-determined learners with the motivation, drive, and resources can teach themselves amazing things online. (See the…
Working with Wikipedia
As instructors, we know that our students consult Wikipedia when they want to learn the basics of a topic. And while this practice can…
The Self
This blog was inspired by two young boys. The first, an 8 year old, really wanted a cheeseburger, so he went to YouTube and…
6 Tips for Student Blogging
WordPress offers many possibilities for faculty who wish for their students to be completing writing or multimedia assignments in an open online platform. However,…
Choosing the right teaching method
Prior to the Information Age, teachers were expected to stand at a podium and expound upon topics that were otherwise out of reach to…
Building a Better Blog Rubric
One of the greatest challenges of giving online writing assignments to students is insuring that it’s clear how they will be evaluated for these…
How do you pack your TPACK?
TPACK, meaning Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge, is an acronym brought to us by Mishra and Koehler’s (2006; 2009) studies on instructors’ abilities to combine their…