Open educational resources, electronic textbooks, and social media for teaching and learning at the University of Delaware and beyond.
Posted in Event, Social Media, Web 2.0 on Feb 23rd, 2012
Building on my growing (and unjustified) reputation as a fashionista, this is my Spring 2012 collection (of slides) for “FASH325 Multimedia Fashion Presentations” students. This presentation is part information management, part online persona, and part marketing. It’s intended to be an overview of what 21st century graduates should be aware of in terms of online [...]
Posted in Event, Social Media, Web 2.0 on Feb 20th, 2012
In the past couple of years, I have shared my story of how I use social media for professional development and web 2.0 as my “extended brain.” I have prepared a workshop titled “Building your personal learning network: DIY professional development,” and I hope you can join me this Wednesday, February 22, or the following [...]
Posted in Social Media, Web 2.0 on Dec 23rd, 2011
As 2011 slowly drifts away, I’d like to come back to a topic that has been on my mind a lot this year, and speculate on some trends for the upcoming decade. That topic is curation. As we have all noticed, information available on the internet is limitless, and the frontier of that universe is [...]
Posted in LMS, OER, Social Media on Sep 23rd, 2011
Here is a quote from D’Arcy Norman about activities happening in a learning management system that might appeal to subscribers to this blog. Can you think of learning activities you currently conduct behind closed doors that could benefit from being release to the public web?
Posted in Event, Social Media on Sep 13th, 2011
Don’t worry, I won’t pretend I’m any kind of fashion expert… I’m not quite a candidate for What Not To Wear, or a featured creature on People of Walmart, but I’m no P. Diddy either! This semester, I have been asked to be a guest speaker in the “FASH325 Multimedia Fashion Presentations” course, one section [...]
Posted in Policy, Social Media on Aug 22nd, 2011
The state of Missouri has passed a law to prevent teachers from friending students on social media sites. Senate Bill 54, also known as the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, aims to fight inappropriate contact between students and teachers, including protecting children from sexual misconduct by their educators. It is named after a Missouri public [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, Social Media on Aug 16th, 2011
It doesn’t take much to trigger an awesome experience. In the following case, all that was needed was 140 characters and a low-quality picture taken by a cellphone. The Twitter Scavenger Hunt is a friendly competition, initiated by the University of Memphis. Journalism students are given the task to find points of interest, to interview [...]
Posted in Devices, Social Media on Aug 11th, 2011
The internet is an endless and ever-growing pool of resources. It is frightening to think of everything we can find on the web, and even scarier to think of everything we’ll never have time to find and consult. So how do we deal with this over-abundance of information? We focus our attention to what we [...]
Posted in Social Media on Jul 25th, 2011
We’re hearing a lot of stories related to social media making us lazy (the new buzzword is “slacktivism”), like the latest one from Dean Obeidallah on CNN.com. Yet, it seems more and more students are finding value in using them to land jobs. Just look at this story from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada describing [...]
Posted in LMS, Policy, Social Media on Jun 22nd, 2011
My good friend Nate Angell from rSmart moderated a session called “Sakai vs the World Wide Web 2.0: To Facebook or Not to Facebook?” at the 2011 Sakai conference in Los Angeles. He does not know that, but I’m the one who “planted” that topic as a potential session for the conference, and he’s the [...]
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