There are plenty of days when I teach about how you would expect: powerpoint, lecturing, asking periodic questions, peppering in some (corny) humor to keep students’ attention, etc. I take pride in my powerpoints: they rarely have much text, they are very illustration-heavy, they have numbered pages for easy reference. Also, they’re not actually powerpoint … Read moreOld-school
I’ve spent much of this blog so far focusing on technical decisions. In this post, I want to delve more deeply in my more philosophical/theoretical decisions. These decisions in practical terms end up being entwined with technology, but it has been my goal to be conscious of the implications of decisions as I have made … Read more…and now Deep Thoughts, by Andi Smith
I think I’m FINALLY starting to understand the different components of WordPress and how to best use them. Here is where I freely admit that I started messing around with WP looooooong before I knew what I was doing. After all, isn’t that the point of blogging software? You can just jump right in, no … Read moreCaptain Obvious to the Rescue! (Plugin edition)
Weller’s ideas regarding the integration of research on the web are pretty attractive. Who wouldn’t want unpaid but knowledgeable volunteers to help you resolve problems, find mistakes, test your ideas? Unfortunately, I think his rose-colored glasses are a bit too much. In our present state of data-richness, where you can find information about almost anything, … Read more40 acres and a mule
In my second post on this blog, I bemoaned the plethora of options for Every. Single. Decision. that needs to be made in developing a website. Case in point: For my latest post, I decided that having a poll would be fun and would encourage quick feedback. So I went about figuring out how to … Read more42*
I’m going with a mostly b&w layout for my site right now, and thought the research page could use a little pop of color and maybe some levity. I made some sketches in Paper to represent my study areas. Is it too cheesy? Please vote below. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the … Read moreThumbs up or down?
My main goal in participating in DoOO is to improve my web portfolio. My courses are already all on my site, and I think the interface is pretty functional. However, until yesterday, the portfolio part of my website was lacking. All I had was an About page with a paragraph of text and a picture, … Read moreDoing Something with my Web Portfolio
This is only sorta-kinda related, but I’ve recently started trying to organize my email. A couple of weeks ago, I had about 22,000 emails in three inboxes. I am a neat freak by nature, so I decided to try for InboxZero. In a nutshell, the point of InboxZero is to take control of your email … Read moreA Sisyphean task: InboxZero
So far I’m enjoying The Digital Scholar, and it’s making me think about the place technology has in teaching now, where we’re going, and what we can learn from other fields/industries. However, I call shenanigans on Weller’s book/music analogy. Honestly, I think this alarmist and defeatist approach is counterproductive. Teaching isn’t like publishing or music. … Read moreNot dead yet!