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Monthly Archives: August 2007
This is your Italian course. This is your Italian course on WordPress.
Some day I’ll get tired of admitting how far ahead of the pack UMW is. Today is not that day. So to paraphrase that guy with the egg… This is your Italian course: And this is your Italian course on … Continue reading
A meager start
OK, we’re not godlike. We ain’t Jim Groom. But we are launching our own WordPress MU intitiative: KeeneWeb. Our particular angle is going to be less academic, and more creating community on campus, community outreach, and (hopefully) getting some tradmed … Continue reading
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The Parable of the Thingamajig
We are reaching the end of our evaluation process here on my eportfolio committee. So in a month of impassioned pleas, I hope y’all forgive me one more. This is the last push. But I want to do it this … Continue reading
Announcing the Learning 2.0 Pecha Kucha Contest
Heard of Pecha-Kucha? It’s poetry slam for the design crowd. Haiku for the business world. It’s the solution to Death by Powerpoint. Here’s the rules: Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation Each presentation must comprise of 20 slides, no … Continue reading
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The SmallWonder arrives
We want to go guerrilla video over here, and inspired by the Stanford ePortfolio crowd, we got a couple of SmallWonder cameras from TigerDirect. The idea is that they are less intrusive than a traditional camera, more portable, and easier … Continue reading
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The college as student/project matchmaker
What would happen if instead of encouraging students to build yet another fake bookstore project we had encouraged them to write wikiscanner? They’d have changed the world, that’s what. What if instead of having statistics students take multiple choice tests … Continue reading
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Giving your students a toolbelt
UMW has put together a tools section for incoming freshmen and new faculty. The idea is to present to them six free low-threshold tools which will be their tools of the trade for the years to come. The tools are: … Continue reading
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At eportfolio workshop
I’m at an eportfolio workshop at Stanford. More on that later. The weather here is beautiful, much milder than in New Hampshire. I had no idea. On the other hand, there is a “What to do when there’s an earthquake” … Continue reading
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There is no “tech”. Get over it.
Via SmartMobs, regarding our millenials: “Young people don’t see “tech†as a separate entity – it’s an organic part of their lives,†said Andrew Davidson, vice president of MTV’s VBS International Insight unit. “Talking to them about the role of … Continue reading
Progress on loosely coupled assessment
So we watched a presentation yesterday by True Outcomes, and of course I had to hold my nose a bit. I come from the “merit badge” school of Roger Schank, that ideally assessments fall into to the category of “Student … Continue reading
