I just pulled the trigger on my registration to the 2006 AECT Convention in Dallas, TX. It will be a great opportunity to hear some interesting presentations and to meet and greet students and faculty in my program (a very rare treat for a distance student). Also, I'm just guessing, but it looks like the…
Listservs may seem to have taken a backseat to blogs, wikis and community web sites. However, if you work or study in and around the field of Instructional Technology, but aren't subscribed to the Instructional Technology Forum (ITForum for short)- you are missing out on discussions, ideas and happenings in the IT community. No glitz,…
I have the best classmates this semester! Each time I log in to "class", I am presented with a wealth of resources that I spend about an hour a day just filing away. The latest one was new to me, but worth taking an extra second to pass along. WorldCat is a massive online catalog…
Back in April, I made a post about my new Cingular 8125. I had owned the phone for a day and had gotten off to a rocky, yet still promising start. I have now had 5 months to play with it, so I've collected my thoughts on the experience: The good (or not so bad):…
I spent many years of my adult life working in and around the World Trade Center. After 9/11, I worked directly across the street to the east at 1 Liberty Plaza. My husband works directly across the street to the west in the Financial Center. Even though I have walked through and around the site…
In one of my online classes, a few of us have been having a sidebar discussion on the human interaction that we feel as "missing" in an online learning environment. We've had some great back and forth "conversations" in the asynchronous discussion forum that began when a fellow online classmate made the statement, "I can't help but…
The worst part about getting an online degree from a university in another state is missing the big football games on Saturday. The planets have aligned and my undergrad school, University of Wisconsin – Madison, is playing my husband's undergrad school, Western Illinois Leathernecks, on Saturday. So, we're sitting at Newark about to get on…
Not the most earth shattering news (by any stretch), but I found it interesting that the word "aggregator" is not in the Google spell check on my tool bar or in the Flock blog posting tool. The only reason this is worthy of 5 seconds of thought is that it highlights the fact that the…
The Read / Write Web announced that they will be profiling a roundup of web "office" applications. Just a heads up to point your browser or aggregator to Read / Write Web if you are interested in following along . . .
In this podcast, I contrast the experience of "learning" within a lecture based (tell me) setting to a guided (let me try) exploration. I argue that a well designed and facilitated guided exploration sets in motion the ultimate cycle of learning, creating and sharing. Links referenced in this podcast include: Trendwatching.com Trendwatching September 2006 Briefing…