I spent a couple of hours today in the Chicago Public Library Maker Lab at the Harold Washington library. I joined the Digital Literacy Advisory Board (DLAB) members as we learned about the opportunities for adult learners. I made this keychain on the 3D printer! Aside from my creation, I learned about organizations and spaces…
Creative Commons had an announcement on their website that, CC Search comes out of beta, with over 300 million images indexed from multiple collections, a major redesign, and faster, more relevant search … CC Search searches images across 19 collections pulled from open APIs and the Common Crawldataset, including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art,…
h/t to Tonia Dousay for her recommendation of Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. She always has the best resources! Aside from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), there aren’t a lot of great resources to help students make the transition to…
A thread on Facebook today reminded me of an assignment I had in graduate school. While it feels like about 3 months ago, this assignment was 11 years ago!! Based on my response, I’m guessing we were asked to trace the genealogy of our instructional philosophy. Here’s the exhibit I created to accompany my paper….
Nothing like a presentation on tools to support learning to prompt a deep dive into the latest and greatest! Tonight, I stumbled on Wakelet, a super simple way to curate and display online content (e.g., articles, videos, images, tweets, text, etc.) on a shareable board that they call a “collection”. In the 2 minutes I…
My network of instructional design colleagues is vast, but today it felt very small. While the news of the day is still raw, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on those in our network who work or go to school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. To my fellow ODU alumnus,…
Designers for Learning will be well represented at this year’s AECT convention in Las Vegas. At last count, here are the seven confirmed sessions related to our work: Designing for Accessibility | Panel as part of the Graduate Student Assembly Design Teams in Action | Perspectives from Observers | Panel as part of the Design…
I’ve been reading students’ papers all weekend, including one on open textbooks. It raises a host of amazing issues to ponder, including the roles of publishers, educators, and learners. Maybe that’s why it seemed like I saw a ton of textbook coverage on Twitter today, including this one on EdSurge titled “Predictions of Print Textbooks’…
A few days ago, I linked to the 2019 Horizon Report. Since then, I’ve seen a few articles digesting the contents, including this one in Campus Technology titled, “3 Ed Tech Trends Stuck on the Horizon (and Why)”. This article does a nice job of summarizing the Horizon Report’s coverage of three technologies that have…
Continuing the work of the New Media Consortium, Educause published the 2019 Horizon Report. Much like prior editions, this year’s report considers trends, significant challenges, and important developments in educational technology. Paralleling areas of focus in our work, the report discusses the trends, challenges, and developments associated with: Improving Digital Fluency Increasing Demand for Digital…