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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/21/13
UVa assists in Open Access Publishing I received an email last week from Librarian extraordinaire, Kay Buchanan at UVa, outlining the University’s new Open Access Fund. “This fund is intended to support UVa authors who wish to publish their research in an open … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/14/13
Coursera moves into our turf Coursera has recently announced it will begin offering free professional training and development courses for teachers. These online, and free MOOC style courses will be offered worldwide. The creation of these courses involved seven schools … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/7/13
UVA MOOCs The Curry School of Education at UVA, partnering with Coursera, recently announced a new MOOC for Educators. The six-week course, starting in mid October will focus on early childhood education. The University has offered six MOOCs to date … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 4/23/13
2013 Emerging Technologies Institute The 2013 Emerging Technologies Institute is currently open for enrollments! For the second year, we are offering a series of courses in instructional technology that can be taken for traditional college credit or for non-credit professional development hours that … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 4/16/13
Learning Spaces I am currently working with a student from the VCU Interior Design program to redesign our open computer lab. She brought to my attention this project going on right here in Richmond. It is called the Bryan Innovation Center … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 4/9/13
VCU Online Learning Summit On May 14, VCU is hosting this one-day event that looks like it is going to be really great. You can check out the whole schedule here. I have seen a lot of sessions that will be interesting to folks … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 4/2/13
CTE iPad Pilot Projects Once again the good folks at the CTE are accepting proposals for iPad Pilot Projects. Last year we had multiple proposals accepted, and those projects are going great. The deadline for proposals is April 13th, but you … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 3/26/13
Social Media A number of us had a great conversation with Brandon Pierce from Facebook last week before his presentation. During this conversation the issue of cyber bullying came up, and we began to consider what our pre-service teachers should understand about … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 3/19/13
Digital Humanities I came across some great resources this week concerned with the Digital Humanities. First is Bamboo DiRT, a web site that lists technology tools for research in the Humanities that categorizes the tools by task. This site will be … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 3/12/13
MOOCS vs COAPI First, COAPI stands for Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions. I think you know by now what MOOC stands for. COAPI is “a way for colleges to coordinate and advocate for open-access policies which typically require that all faculty journal publications be … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 3/5/13
Digital Humanities This field becomes more interesting the further I look into it. This week I discovered a Q & A discussion board just for the digital humanities. I also came across an article on quantified history, which seems to be a … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 2/26/13
VCU Online I often get questions about what VCU is doing in terms of online learning. Do we have a separate online learning organization? Are we creating MOOCs like everyone else? Will faculty be required to teach online? The VCU … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 2/19/13
Digital Humanities As I mentioned two weeks ago, the concept of “digital humanities” has been on my mind recently as I am involved in the creation of a course on technology integration in the humanities. I am still in the … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 2/12/13
Technology Frameworks Integrating technology into instruction is always less about the technology and more about the instruction. We have seen great technologies do nothing to improve student outcomes many times because of poor planning and implementation. I was reminded of … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 02/05/13
Digital Humanities I am currently in the process of designing a new course about integrating technology in the humanities, and this week, an article came out, describing how emerging technologies can support not only online learning, but scholarship in the humanities as … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 1/29/13
MOOC story Here is an interesting story about redesigning a typical higher ed course as a MOOC. The participants are transforming the common freshman composition course as a MOOC and will be reporting out during the process with updates. I have … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 1/22/13
Google Migration We will be migrating to Google Apps the beginning of March. Here are some useful links for you to get ready. (1) Training sessions, (2) Apps for VCU web page with getting started guide for faculty and staff. Please look over … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 01/15/13
Open Access Talk Dr. Brian Nosek, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UVA, did a brown bag session at the end of last semester on the changing landscape and future of scholarly communication in the sciences. You can listen … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 12/18/12
Live Polling I’ve always liked the idea of “clickers” in the classroom as a way to gauge student understanding easily. Data-driven teaching if you will. The only downside was acquiring a set of clickers, setting up a set of clickers, … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 12/11/12
MOOCs sell student data The best thing to do is read this article. But in a nutshell, these companies (Coursera, Udacity) which have been selling their services to major Universities to help develop MOOCs are now offering a business model where … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 12/4/12
Knewton Knewton is adaptive learning software. Think of online courses that collect every bit of possible user data (what you click on, how long you look at questions, etc.) and then use this information to provide the best possible learning … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 11/27/12
Unofficial Job-Application Checklist This is an interesting look from The Chronicle of Higher Ed on why managing your digital or online footprint is important. Everything from “googling yourself” often to un-tagging yourself in those pics from your “I just got tenure” … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 11/20/12
Playing nicely with MOOCs In this story, a Vanderbilt faculty member uses MOOCs in his course. The story brings up interesting points such as how he feels about, and how students and peers may view him for, using others’ materials in … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 11/13/12
AERA The sound of happy professors rang out in the halls of Oliver Hall this week as AERA acceptance letters were received. I know many of us had a great time in Vancouver last year, and I thought it would be … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 11/6/12
More new Higher Ed Models Last week we learned about Antioch University using courses from Coursera. This week California community colleges are utilizing online courses offered by other out-of-state Universities. The “MOOC” word is also tossed around in this article. Apparently, … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 10/30/12
New iPad mini I imagine most of you, by now, have heard about the new iPad mini. It was announced last week, and it is an iPad, but 2 inches smaller. This allows you to hold it in one hand. It … Continue reading
The Tech Newsletter 10/23/12
Minnesota cracks down on free education So, by the time I got to this crazy story, common sense had already set in, and it was resolved. But I thought I would include it here anyway as an example of the bumps we … Continue reading
TheTech Tuesday Newsletter 10/16/12
Big Things in Ed Tech I had someone ask me last week, via email, what I thought the big ideas in Ed Tech were right now. I thought you guys might be interested in my response as well, so here … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 10/9/12
edX What I like about “5 ways that edX could change education“, is how it looks at MOOCs for what they are right now; experiments. They can utilize crowd-sourcing in interesting ways. They can provide an enormous amount of valuable data on learning. … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 10/2/12
The Crisis in Higher Ed This is a good article on everything going on right now with online learning. This article points out the parallel relationship between the hype around online learning now to the hype around correspondence courses that came … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 9/25/12
AERA considers the future This week many of us recieved this email from Bill Tierney, current president of AERA. In it, he discusses the evolution of academic scholarship and the key challenges that lie ahead for AERA. You may or may … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 9/18/12
Cloud Storage Options (a request) I had a request from a reader to shine some light on the many options available for cloud-based storage. I currently utilize two different products for two different reasons. First is Dropbox, which I mentioned in my … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 9/11/12
K12 Technology in our area Many of our graduates go on to teach in local school divisions. Two weeks ago, the Richmond Times Dispatch ran a story describing the funds, and foci on technology in some of areas largest school divisions. … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 9/4/12
The Flipped Classroom A colleague of mine at UVA is doing his dissertation on this topic and I know from looking at the click results of this newsletter, this is a topic many of you are also interested in. The … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 8/28/12
Technology doesn’t motivate students This is a very short article that is well written. Some may not agree with his position, but I think it makes a lot of sense. His argument is that technology, by itself, does not really motivate … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 8/21/12
MOOC Problems MOOCs had a rough time in the press this week. First, dozens of incidents of plagiarism were reported in Coursera’s free online courses, which is interesting because these are free courses that carry no credit. Then, Udacity cancelled a free … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 8/14/12
Connected Educator Month That’s right. The US Department of Education kicked off Connected Educator Month this month. As a School of Education, it is important for all of us to understand what this means, what role social media plays in this idea, … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 8/7/12
Clicker Training I believe clickers (classroom response technologies) are a useful instructional technology. They can provide data about student comprehension to a face-to-face teacher instantly, engage students in interactive activities, and allow normally shy students the chance to participate. VCU has recently … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 7/31/12
Good MOOCs, Bad MOOCs This article does a decent job examining how MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) started out, the underlying frameworks behind them, and what they are now turning into. With all of the attention they are getting, and with every prestigious … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 7/24/12
More on UVA It’s like watching a weekly Showtime series. Lately, every week I run across another article on UVA and their online courses/ MOOCs drama. Aside from just being entertaining though, we are given a glimpse into how another … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 7/17/12
UVA comes out swinging I said I would stop reporting on the whole MOOC phenomenon as all you need to know is everyone is doing it. However, UVA is one of our neighbors and many of us have ties there. … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 7/10/12
MOOCs, online learning and UVA So while I was away last week on vacation it seems as though the craziness at UVA has subsided. Anyone who followed this story saw that online learning seemed to have a small role in this made-for-tv … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 6/26/12
ShareMyLesson.com There are many online places for teachers to find lesson plans, and now The American Federation of Teachers has created their own with ShareMyLesson.com. I like the crowd-sourcing mentality of this site, they allow teachers to vote for the lessons, thereby promoting … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 6/19/12
Peer2Peer University So while this organization is in line with the whole new-online-higher-ed-alternative-licensure-mooc-open-access group, they seem to offer a little something different. Peer2Peer University offers a model where students can really teach other students. In a way, they push the … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 06/12/12
Social Media Guidelines A couple of articles came across my desk this week in regard to social media guidelines for K12 teachers, and I think as a School of Education it is important for us to be knowledgeable about the … Continue reading
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The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 6/6/12
Voice Thread Many of the Emerging Technology Institute classes are approaching the half-way point, and I have learned so much from dropping into many of these classes (they are all open access) and learning about new tools. One of the … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/29/12
Pinterest Surprisingly, I don’t engage in every shiny new social media gadget that comes along, such as Pinterest. However, when a site gains this much traction, I feel it is valuable to share. So what is Pinterest? It is like a virtual pin … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/22/12
Emerging Technologies Institute As most of you already know, we started our Emerging Technologies Institute classes last week. The courses are being taught on open access platforms, which means anyone can come in and see what we are doing. If you are … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/15/12
iPad Apps So I started sharing some of my favorite apps with you guys earlier in the year (such as Evernote and Dropbox), I then moved into sharing some web sites that categorize apps for easier searching. It really was only a matter of … Continue reading
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1 instructor, 2760 students There is an instructor at Va. Tech named John Boyer who does this. I think I might have mentioned him in another weekly newsletter as he also gets famous Nobel Prize winners (Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 5/1/12
App Inventor I know a lot of us are using iPhones and iPads, and I mentioned a few weeks ago some possible solutions for making your own apps. But there is another mobile operating system out there, it’s called android, … Continue reading
The Tech Tuesday Newsletter 4/24/12
iPad Apps It’s funny really, I thought when I started this newsletter I would once in awhile talk about an iPad app I thought was good. But as it turns out there are so many good ones, what is more … Continue reading