As happens, I was doing one thing on the internet and ended up somewhere else – a very happy somewhere else. What started as a quick Twitter reply to George Veletsianos on a project of interest, landed me on his blog to read more about the project. To my excitement, I saw a familiar name….
Yesterday, I posted that I created a digital Accessibility Advocate badge. In creating the badge, I struggled with the symbol or icon to use on the badge to represent “accessibility”. Today, I did a brief bit of Googling and see that I’m not alone in my struggle. Early in my Googling, I came across an…
We’ve been working on accessibility-related initiatives recently, and today I came up with an idea of how we could acknowledge participants’ contributions. We typically use Badgr as a digital badging platform to acknowledge our service participants, so I came up with this badge. As I noted in the criteria section on the badge, “In claiming…
I came across “Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning: A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty” from Dr. MJ Bishop’s recent tweet: I enjoyed the opportunity to serve on this panel… interesting to see first hand the need to begin framing our #highered #edtech research around the educational problems we’re…
For the second time this week, I’ve heard great things about Otter Voice Notes. From the FAQ on this transcription service: Otter turns your voice conversations into smart notes that you can easily search and share. You can use it to take notes at your meetings and interviews, capture your thoughts and ideas while you’re…
My friend, Enilda Romero-Hall from The University of Tampa, is conducting a study titled “Instructional Design Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean” with her colleagues Erika Petersen and Adriana Santos (also from The University of Tampa), as well as Leonor Adams from Old Dominion University. As Enilda shared in the Designers for Learning Facebook…
Pew Research Center released updates to augment their technology use reports, including the Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet and Mobile Fact Sheet. A May 7th blog post titled Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption shares the following charts. As reflected in the chart above, “the share of lower-income Americans who rely…
Today would have been the 119th birthday of my grandmother, Esther Grace Livingston Jones (12 May 1900 – 26 June 1988). It’s nice this day falls on Mother’s Day as she was the best of the best! Here’s a treasured picture of her mom, Lillian May Andrew Livingston (30 December 1866 – 24 November 1945)…
I had the honor of facilitating a professional development session with the Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) today. I was once told that CMAA is the second largest adult education provider in Illinois behind the City Colleges of Chicago. Billed as a Mobile Learning Design Slam, the following is the session description from the program:…
Today, I had the great fortune of being a panelist on an accessibility webinar as part of the LINCS Professional Development (PD) Center Collaborative Learning Group – Enriching Professional Development through Blended Learning. Jen Vanek, Director of Digital Learning and Research at the EdTech Center at World Education, is the facilitator of the LINCS group…