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 […]
Tag: Technology
Logitech Professional Presenter R800 and Yosemite (OS X 10.10)
Though not officially supported on OS X by Logitech, I followed these instructions and can confirm that the R800 works in OS X Yosemite with PowerPoint (for Mac 2011).
Using Radar to predict Bird Migration
photo credit: kbaird In my dissertation, I take some time to talk about the use and adoption of recently-available technologies (specifically digital cameras to take pictures of birds, nexrad radar to predict migration and the Internet to share bird sightings) by birders. I call the products of these technologies (so, the digital pictures, radar images […]
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, […]
Pining for the bygone
Richard Louv writes, in Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, that children’s understanding & experience of nature has changed over time and that these changes have not been for the betterment of relationships with nature. Louv, in the book, writes about many practices in environmental education that are both effective […]
The Technology & Ethics of Reporting Bird Sightings
The following post includes ruminations and ideas emerging as I analyze the data collected for my PhD dissertation focusing on the act of birding. It doesn’t represent a final thought or particular endpoint: these are ideas in progress. I would be interested in hearing your opinion of my ideas, too. photo credit: Peppysis Sharing sightings […]
Collapsing space and freezing time in birding
The following post includes ruminations and ideas emerging as I analyze the data collected for my PhD dissertation focusing on the act of birding. It doesn’t represent a final thought or particular endpoint: these are ideas in progress. I would be interested in hearing your opinion of my ideas, too. Many birding technologies appear to […]
Why I won’t buy and e-reader (but would really like to)
I like the idea of e-book readers. Rather than printing versions of all the journal articles I’ve downloaded over the course of completing a PhD, I save the PDFs on the computer. I’ve transitioned to reading these articles on my screen at home and have a system where I can annotate the articles I’ve read. […]
(Amateur) birders & (professional) robots: the “truth” & access to knowledge
I’m supposed to be turning an abstract I wrote into a paper and I’m having some troubles beginning. So rather than staring at the computer screen all day wondering how to begin, I’m going to try banging out my ideas here and see if that gives me a kernel to begin my “real” paper. I’m […]
Perhaps this will be the next wildlife videographer
Right after I posted on filming tigers with elephant-deployed cameras, this comes along: I, for one, welcome our four-legged wildlife-filming overlords.