I’m just returning from the 6th AAEEBL Conference in Boston. As usual, it’s a wonderful time with what seems to be a growing family of educators — so many of us know each other, and have been struggling through similar…
Here is the second in my NLI Spring Workshop series. This time we’re focusing on ePortfolios, using the model developed by the C2L FIPSIE-funded grant (http://c2l.mcnrc.org) in which Virginia Tech played a key role. The idea is that ePortfolios, properly integrated…
This is the presentation I’m using for my first NLI session of the Spring 2015 semester. This presentation shows how ATEL comes to be formed from the intersection of active and engaged learning with student-centered technologies. You should be able…
For the NMS this semester, just read Kay and Goldberg’s (1977) “Personal Dynamic Media,” which was more or less a product review for their proposed and in-the-works “Dynabook.” It had its interesting aspects: seeing that in 1977 the concept of…
Reading selections from Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect” piece for the New Media Seminar. It’s interesting to read this with several different lenses. Two that struck me quickly were the Technologist and the Rhetorician lenses. The technological thinking here in terms…
For the New Media Symposium this semester, I just read Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” (1945), but before I go to comment on that, I’d like to make a comment about ideas floating around in the clouds-in-my-head from Murray’s…