journal comment

This is probably one of my favorite journal comments from this past week:
Another area that I can comment on is that based on your style of teaching (constructivist?), in this course I feel as though I am learning how to go back and “play, learn, and discover” with technology as opposed to “work and fix” [...]

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practical applications

I got an email this afternoon that thrilled me. She’s in my computer literacy class. Instead of lecturing on file management, I decided to wrap it around a digital photography project that I expected might be outside the comfort zone of most of the class. However, they did a great job! It’s another reminder that [...]

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technophobe no more?

I got this message yesterday from someone in my computer literacy class. She is a self-described technophobe and tends to panic at every little thing with computers, sort of one of those people that always says stuff like “I hate computers” or “I’m too dumb to learn about computers.” This is what she wrote:
Hi debby
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details, details

I am teaching an online graduate class for a university in Seattle. The college uses Blackboard, and I did my best to be a good adjunct and adapt my class to the restrictive environment that BB (or BlandBoard, as a colleague referred to it) involves. Alas, I found that no matter how hard I tried, [...]

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the list

I’ve been playing around with a lot of 2.0 toys lately, trying to wrap my brain around new and interesting ways I could use these in my classes to connect students to each other and to a larger network outside of the classroom. Every time something new comes along I try it out because I [...]

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Expanding Your Horizons 2008

Saturday (March 15th) I had an opportunity to lead a workshop for the local Expanding Your Horizons conference sponsored by the Ridgecrest Women of Math and Science. This amazing conference is open to middle school girls and is designed to encourage girls to pursue non-traditional careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) areas. [...]

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no kidding

“The number one lesson I’ve learned from that work is that there is typically a huge gulf between those who are responsible for acquiring and maintaining computer equipment, and those who are expected to use that technology to teach. It’s one thing to keep computers working, available, and virus-free, and quite another to actually figure [...]

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