This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Teaching what you thought you knewA thousand years ago, I studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I went during college and then back again for a year after I graduated. Those were important years in my life and in my growth(…)
I’m going to give a lecture today that basically is the toughest one I’ve ever had to give, and for some of you it’s the toughest one you’ve ever had to hear. Last month, Jonathan Turley posted an entry about Richard Quinn, an instructor at the University of Central Florida who confronted his class after(…)
Time for a confession: I watch Glee. And I love it. Yes, yes I know in real life they are all Broadway stars and/or adults playing people 20 years their junior. The plot lines are wildly improbable, it’s auto-tuned to the max, and hopelessly saccharine, but I don’t care. It’s a great way to pass(…)
I absolutely dread calling tech support, and will do just about anything to avoid it, including spend three days with no intarwebs at home, hoping that my modem will magically return from the dead. (Stubborn, me? Surely you jest.) Working my way through a phone tree; waiting on hold “for the next available representative;” explaining(…)
This entry is part 16 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 O’er the past few days there has been a kerfluffle brewing over at Inside Higher Ed in their Blog U section. As my colleague and fellow LLU blogger Doug posted earlier this week, Joshua Kim, a blogger(…)
This entry is part 17 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently (Original FotoZach Hawkins on Flickr)The end of the semester has come and gone. Grades have been tallied and entered. The VoicesThreads as Final Exams were completed, viewed and reviewed. I thought I would share with those readers who care how it all ended(…)
This morning I upgraded TweetDeck for the mac. There are a gazillion different twitter readers out there…I started using this one when Twhirl died on me. TweetDeck allows you to not only manage multiple accounts…which I seem to have (personal, LLU, and soon… my class)…it also allows you to search for key words or just(…)
This entry is part 20 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently In our shop we have WordPress MU installed and available for anyone (in the languages and elsewhere) who would like to use blogs for teaching. I am just now beginning to think of how I will use blogs in my “spring” semester class,(…)
This entry is part 22 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyAs I mentioned here, I am a center director first and a teacher second. As a center director I teach faculty and students how to use technology for teaching/learning. (Well that and when they need to stay farrrr away from it.) Like many of(…)
This entry is part 23 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently www.flickr.com This fall we had an overabundance of enrollments in the first semester of 2nd year Spanish class. And with that came the opportunity for me teach in the fall as well as the spring…something that I have been hankering to do for(…)
I have been flipping in and out of webstreams of two conferences that had the good sense to be Ustreamed or Elluminated this week. Webcasting conference content is indeed a wonderful tool in these cash strapped/no travel budget times…allowing folks like me out here in the cornfields to peek in and see what is happening(…)
The past couple of weeks I have been off the grid and in the Maine woods, living without electricity, on a lake, and like many of you, trying to detox from a long academic year. One of our morning rituals is to get up and listen to Maine Public Radio early in the a.m. Imagine(…)