K-12 Schools are Using and Reinforcing Technology in Growing Numbers

Two years ago, I watched a video produced by a high school class from somewhere east of here. What stuck with me the most was when the students said they needed to ramp down (technologically) when the got to school. Of course none of us has to look very far to confirm that statement. But [...]

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Connecting to the Net Generation Learner (Part 2 of a Series from an Adventurous Baby Boomer)

[This is the second installment of a series of posts, which will document my own process in giving my fall course a total makeover. I teach Operations Management, an upper division course in the College of Management. This is my first face-to-face course in several years; I've taught exclusively online for the past 5 years. I will attempt to [...]

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Web 2.0 in Action with Michael Wesch

I’m an avid follower of Michael Wesch. You may know of him, most notably from his You Tube videos. I’ve been watching quiety for over a year now, and am ready to go full throttle modeling much of my net gen fall course experiment after his “stuff.”
Now we all have access to what he is [...]

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Connecting to the Net Generation Learner (Part 1 of a Series from an Adventurous Baby Boomer)

 
[This is a first post of a several-post series, which will document my own process and reflections of teaching a face-to-face course, for the first time in several years. I will be attempting to re-engineer my course delivery to make use of learner-centered tools, many considered included in the world of Web 2.0. It will [...]

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Best Explanation of a PLE

 
Just yesterday, an individual named Phil Ice posted a comment on a Sloan-C wiki, which I think repesents the best explanation of what a true PLE (personal learning environment) would or could be. He thinks it may be 2-3 years before anyone truly gets there.
PLEs will be an perpetual topic of this blog, as I continue to scan the Web for [...]

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Course Management Systems and Personal Learning Environments

 
Diagram above by Scott Wilson, http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/images/b/ba/Wilson_future_PLE.jpg
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I’m keeping a watchful eye on what direction the CMS (aka LMS, IMS) is heading. Those of us trying to look through the Magic 8 ball are prophecizing a significantly different role for the CMS in the not too distant future. What is likely to happen is that it will stand alongside other [...]

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