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Eight takeaways from time spent in tech boot camp

It’s been all of two hours since wrapping up a week-long boot camp designed for faculty to learn about teaching with technology in higher education.  My brain is dead (tired) […] More

Missing Links: AV in Online Learning

Here’s a question: should online courses that lack audiovisual interactions be considered less-than-authentic online experiences? I’m not talking about online courses lacking in the same types of rich learning opportunities […] More

Lunch with Linda J. Castaneda (@lindacq) Thursday, June 6

Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf announced she will host Dr. Linda J. Castaneda on June 6 – from Dr. Wolf: I’m beyond delighted to announce that Linda Castañeda will be visiting campus on Thursday, June 6, […] More

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
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Sandra Sawaya Ponders the Question “What is Technology?

By Sandra Sawaya - January 22, 2013
Some weeks ago in my Literacy and Technology class, Dr. Doug Hartman asked us the following question: “What is technology?” I’ve taken more than my share of ed tech classes so I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and find an answer this question.  As I foraged through the forest of information that has grown from seeds over [...]
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Student Engagement & a Tale of Two Images

By Punya Mishra - January 21, 2013
Gallup recently released a poll on student engagement - and the main finding is that “the longer students stay in school, the less engaged they become.” As the post says: The Gallup Student Poll surveyed nearly 500,000 students in grades five through 12 from more than 1,700 public schools in 37 states in 2012. We found that nearly eight in 10 elementary students [...]
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April Niemela on Digital Tools & the Common Core

By ideaplay - January 21, 2013
April Niemela wrote back in November 2012 on her personal and professional experiences exploring digital tools and their relation to emerging challenges and promises embedded in the Common Core standards now beginning to be felt around the country. April, as a junior high school teacher in Idaho and fellow PhD student in the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology program at Michigan [...]
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Claiming Digital Domains of Their Own

By William Cain - January 19, 2013
One thing I can’t get over – and maybe it’s a phenomenon that entrances most of us when it comes to kids and technology – is how quickly they can see the potential for creativity in the tools they pick up. My wife and I were hosting a couple and their children over for a dinner party. They had just had their second child and my wife [...]
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Deciding what not to do (thoughts from Steve Jobs’ bio)

By Josh Rosenberg - January 9, 2013
The zen-like title of this post comes from Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. I read it over break, after *accidentally* taking a copy from my family.  There is much to learn from this detailed, interesting, rich book, but when someone asked me what I learned, I responded with one thing. What someone decides not to do is important.  To Jobs, what he didn’t [...]
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In TPACK, The Song Does Not Remain the Same

By William Cain - January 8, 2013
I spent the holidays (or part of them at least) thinking of simple metaphors and analogies that would help in conceptualizing the connections and inter-relatedness of content, pedagogy, and technology. I’d like to share one and see what you think. Imagine a particular dance:  the tango. This is a dance normally performed by two people to a specific form or piece of [...]
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Transfer & the Technology of Art

By ideaplay - November 28, 2012
There are a number of sketching apps available for the iPad, some of them quite impressive. I’m looking forward to exploring them in more detail over the holidays – just as soon as I learn to use my finger. Here’s the deal: drawing apps for the iPad are tools that have been designed to function within their own sphere of intended use. [...]
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McDonald’s and the Mobile Grad

By Tracy Russo - November 13, 2012
Taking an online or hybrid class gives great freedom in being able to access learning from anywhere in the world, anytime, anyplace.  Sounds simple, yet in practice this often leads to crazy situations resulting from interactions of people, technology, and access.   As a both an instructional designer for Northwestern Michigan College and a third year EPET MSU doctoral student, [...]
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