This morning, I’m doing a quick scoping of the teaching and learning resources related to using Podcasts as an assessment tool in the Higher Education classroom. The intended outcome of this environmental scan is to see what the evidence suggests as best practice for designing and facilitating Podcasting assignments. My sources are varied, from Blog […]
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TLI Presentation: Microblogging in the Classroom
Microblogging in the Classroom on Prezi
Future Directions in Educational Development
As you may or may not know, I’m in the middle of looking for a job. One of those positions is an Educational Developer at the University of Guelph. In preparation for the interview, I was asked to prepare a 15 minute talk on “The Future of Educational Development in Higher Education” (a topic that […]
Wither Place and the Liveliness of Higher Education?
photo credit: MattSh ~ Roads Less Traveled Bill Gates is quoted today in a post on TechCrunch as saying that higher education needs to be less “place-based”. The post goes on to suggest that Gates thinks that “technology is the only way to bring education back under control and expand it”. An interesting assumption here, […]
Reflections on my first use of Twitter in the classroom
Update (5-17-11): This post has turned into a book chapter, which, in turn became a presentation. Feel free to visit both. Inspired by others’ use of Twitter in higher ed, I decided to try and integrate Twitter into the course that I’ve developed and instructed while a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies […]