I tried … I REALLY tried, but sometimes breakups are necessary when the relationship becomes too lopsided to save. I have had a Drupal-based website for 8 years and 22 months (as I was reminded when I logged in after months of absence yesterday). However, I have long considered it an abusive relationship that needed…
What better way to dust off the old blog than a post about angst. As a long time online learner and now instructor / instructional designer, I see (and feel) a lot of online learning angst … most of it having something to do with MOOCs, a concept I have followed closely and watched evolve…
This is the third iteration of my personal blog. Until I figure out a good way to integrate my prior Drupal and Blogspot (yes, Blogspot) blogs, here are the links to my past musing … 2006 – Fall 2012: http://designedtoinspire.com/drupal/ 2005 – 2006: http://jmaddrell.blogspot.com/
I wanted to expand on my video introduction to attempt to clarify a few of my remarks that didn’t exactly hit the mark when I listened back to my on-the-fly video. I said (or tried to say) something along the lines of, “our virtual network has been good at starting conversations about issues, but they…
I wanted to expand on my video introduction to attempt to clarify a few of my remarks that didn’t exactly hit the mark when I listened back to my on-the-fly video. I said (or tried to say) something along the lines of, “our virtual network has been good at starting conversations about issues, but they…
Oh, my … it has been almost a year since I posted on my blog. I spent a few hours updating my drupal installation (yes … I’m still challenging myself to keep it up … for now) … and fired up my camera phone and created this introduction. Back to school I go …
I dipped my toe in the PLENK2010 MOOC today with the following discussion post that I wanted to capture here … Dave Cormier wrote in the discussion board for the course … I’m not sure that the technologies are the greatest impediment to making this work. I think it’sa combination of a few things… off…
I just uploaded the final version of my paper (see attached Participant Experiences in an Informal twitter.com Sub-network) accepted for presentation at the AACE E-Learn 2010 Conference. I opted for the Virtual Presentation option, so I won’t be heading to Orlando to be there f2f. I have also attached the narrated PPT slides that are…
I finalized my contract today to work on the instructional evaluation team for the RealWorld – InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge. The RW phase involves teams of grade 9 to 12 learners and facilitators working on design solutions to problems associated with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the IW phase, teams of 3 to…
I didn’t know it before now, but dissertating isn’t just a made-up word that I have been tossing around today as I yell to the world that I began collecting data for my dissertation research. I can’t get into a lot of details as the folks I am observing and surveying this semester may stop…