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Your Story as a Streamlined Mishmash

Scanning the latest apps in the App Store over the weekend, I came across this statement: Today’s storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies […] More

Maria Konnikova Thinks Blogging Can Save Your Dissertation

Maria Konnikova wrote an insightful piece in Scientific American back in April that rings true to our hearts. For those who haven’t read her SA blog, Konnikova is a doctoral […] More

Endless rewriting: What great academic advising looks like

Helen Hazen, is the author of 1983 book, Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination. In a recent article in The American Scholar titled “Endless Rewriting” she recounts the way the book […] More

ideaplay.org - Google Glass Updates

It’s been two weeks since ideaplay.org got word from Google that our application to become Glass Explorers had been accepted. In the meantime, there’s been a flurry of excitement, anticipation, […] More

Watching TV may improve your teaching!

TV show producers and advertisers have spent a lot of time and money perfecting a system maximizing the user’s experience, and good instructional design can easily capitalize on this organization.  […] More

The Darkest Hour is Just Before Proposal Defense

As I’m nearing the end of my first year as a tenure-track faculty member, it’s pretty clear to me that the risk I took when I quit a secure government […] More

10 Tips for Doctoral Failure

Tara Brabazon, professor of media studies at the University of Brighton, has an essay in the Times Higher Education, titled How not to write a PhD thesis, providing her top ten tips for doctoral […] More

EPET @ SITE 2013

To showcase the MSU EPET experience at this year’s SITE conference in New Orleans, I put together this video highlighting main events from our stay there.  Happy viewing! MSU EPET […] More

Of dissertations, books, surviving grad school and beyond

Introduction (by Punya Mishra) Stephen Vassallo was a doctoral student in our program and is currently faculty member at American University in Washington DC. He was my advisee but intelligently […] More

Reflections on Attending my First Conference (SITE)

I attended my first conference this week, for the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) in New Orleans, LA. It was great, and like many great experiences, I […] More

1. Apply backside to chair; 2. write

By Penny Thompson - October 10, 2010
Having recently jumped through the flaming hoop that is the comprehensive exam (and landed on my feet on the other side, albeit with some painful blistering burns!), I’m thinking about how to navigate this last phase of my program somewhat gracefully. I’m starting by putting some thought into the writing process and reading some of the many books about how to actually get the dissertation [...]
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The Crime of Education

By Lawrence Bruce - October 7, 2010
As a U.S. History teacher I strive to produce lessons and procure content that stirs my students to feel history as much as possible. Historical empathy is not an easy thing to conjure up. For help I have often turned to Howard Zinn and his “Voices from a People’s History of the United States” and other sources that provide a voice for those whom were cast aside in the history books to make room for presidents and senators. While looking ahead to the consequences of the American Industrial Revolution, I came across a timeless reflection on the social roots of poverty and it got me thinking about the appropriation of technology today.
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Moving On

By fahnoe - October 4, 2010
For quite some time I have wanted to move away from the phrase “21st Century Skills”. When this phrase was used back in 2003 during a strategic planning time, people locked into the words and concept because it was progressive and sounded so new and advanced. It seemed to capture the essence of the spending on technology and the need for integration. It drooled of [...]
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The Ethics of a Digital Life

By aprilniemela - September 30, 2010
The attack came out of no where. I had just slipped out of the Thieves’ Guild intent upon securing the Gem of Flawlessness, when I tripped right into a caltrop. I was trapped, and the assassin hacked away at me without remorse. I struggled to fight back, wielding a sword and double-wielding a dagger, but he was bigger, stronger, more [...]
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iPad=iLove

By Andrea Zellner - September 26, 2010
The iPad is really an amazing device.  I’ll admit to my initial skepticism (really? a giant ipod touch?), but since becoming intimately involved with one, I can also admit that I am in love. I find the whole phenomenon of the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad to be really interesting.  What is it that makes me love them so? Is it the sleek design? The [...]
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Camtasia Relay? A new option for institution screen casting!

By Sean M Leahy - September 21, 2010
Have you ever wondered if there was a fast and easy way to capture a screen?  Have you ever been to a lecture or presentation and thought “wouldn’t it be great to have this recorded”?  Well now you can…with Techsmith’s Camtasia Relay.  What makes Relay different than say Camtasia Studio or other competing products like ScreenFlow?  Camtasia Relay is a lightweight application [...]
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shadows

I know nothing.

By Andy Saltarelli - September 9, 2010
I recently attended a talk by a very skilled, influential, and seasoned leader who, “in a dark night of the leader’s soul”, asked the question: Do I really know anything about leadership?  His wasn’t a false humility, but genuine, albeit temporary, paralysis.  Many of my doctoral cohorts and I seem to also be walking through a “dark night” of [...]
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Peer Review at a Crossroads?

By M. Schira Hagerman - August 26, 2010
Interesting article by Patricia Cohen of the NY Times on how even the process of academic peer review is being shaped by the affordances of the Internet. Thought it was worth posting. What do you think?
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