Preface: Let it be assumed that every research professor who sees this post will be offended and/or angry. Please know that I don’t dislike you or have anything personal against any one of you. I count many research professors as friends of mine, and hope I can continue to do so. The point I want [...]
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As I write this, the EDTECH HULK only has 40 followers. Come on people, where’s the love for the big green tweeter wearing the purple pants? Several of us at #ITC11 were speculating about who was the David Banner behind the HULK, and although we came up with a list of 6 or 8 possibilities, [...]
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While preparing for an upcoming presentation, I stumbled onto something in Zoho that I didn’t know existed. I’ve been a Zoho fanboy for several years, but never really felt the need to use their mail program – mainly because I already have 4 or 5 different email accounts for different purposes. Not using the mail [...]
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Was really wishing that I could have been in attendance at this session at #ELI2011 in Washington D .C. today. Titled: “Bag It and Tag It”: Implementing a Course-Level Learning Portfolio Using CMS-Based Tools to Document Student Learning When Teaching in Wild, Open Spaces with Cloud-Based Tools,” by Kelvin Thompson of UCF. A couple of [...]
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Fast Company publishes an article that is getting retweeted and re-facebooked all over the net. The title is “Apple’s iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education test [Exclusive]“ “Officially” appears to mean that the iPad scored high marks overall in a student pilot project at Reed College in Portland, OR. Let’s see – students were given [...]
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Looking forward to the eLearning 2011 conference hosted by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) on Feb. 19-22, 2011. This is always one of the best eLearning conference of the year. There’s a great lineup of keynote speakers again this year. The ITC board has done a great job over the past several years of getting [...]
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For the purposes of bringing some closure to the last few posts about my very public job interview in Cheyenne, Wyoming, let me just say that LCCC chose to “go in a different direction.” I’m very disappointed in the outcome. The rumor mill and/or grapevine has given me reason to believe that they might not [...]
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The previous post contained my answers to the first five questions from my interview for the interim presidency at Laramie County Community College. This post contains the rest of the answers. I’m expecting to hear something one way or the other within the next day or two – so soon you won’t have to hear [...]
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In the previous post I talked about being interviewed for the interim presidency at Laramie County Community College. To have an open search process, they chose to live stream the interviews and open forums on the Internet. I promised to post my answers to the questions. Since they’re lengthy, I’ll post the first five here [...]
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