Thanks in no small part to the iPhone 3GS, Augmented Reality is starting to grow in leaps and bounds. Google and others are also helping this growth in many ways. As I have blogged about in past posts (and many others around the web have also mentioned), the lines between the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Active Learning'
Will The Internet Start Looking More Like the World, or the World Like the Internet?
May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education
I was pondering future trends last week while watching the evening weather forecast. Forecasting while watching a forecast? Anyways… We were in for a possible round of severe weather that week. The news anchor put up a map of “storm spotters” – a network of people that would call in from [...]
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Digital Institute Spring 2010
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education, Multimedia, Resources, Workshops
This semester for Digital Institute, the Center for Distance Education was pleased to sponsor two presenters on themes of great interest to our group: Joan Hughes (University of Texas at Austin) spoke on “Diffusion of Transformative Technology Integration: What is transformative technology integration and how can I (meaning you!) support it at UT Arlington?“, and [...]
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The Enemy is Powerpoint?
May 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Active Learning, Tools
Article: “We have met the enemy and he is powerpoint” by Elizabeth Bumiller.
WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti. [...]
Teaching the Controversy in a Web Class
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education
I think we can agree that live classes are not mirrors of web classes, or vice versa. But there are some fundamentals that transcend the medium in which a class is taught. On the positive side, engaged professors make a difference, whether it be in a live class or a web class. Also, unleashing student’s [...]
Tags: Distance Education·pedagogy·student-student learning·teaching
Broadcasting comes to Modern Languages
April 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Active Learning
Broadcasting major Patrick Modrovsky, who happens to be minoring in German, asked if he could create a video news item about German at UT Arlington for utanews, a website showcasing broadcasting students’ work. Of course, I said yes, and he did an excellent job of showing how we are trying to incorporate technology and active [...]
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Gardner Campbell’s ideas on Web 2.0 and Assessment
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning
Since my comment to Matt’s post of March 15, as well as his comment regarding Moodle, is awaiting moderation, I’ll just go ahead and make it a post:
Wow. If Moodle can facilitate all that interaction, then that really connects to what Gardner Campbell was saying in his podcast (see below). I remember years ago when [...]
Mobility initiative?
March 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Active Learning, Authoring, Composition, Learning Management Systems, Tools, Video, Web 2.0
Does anyone know if there is a mobility initiative at UTA? Or does OIT have plans for a mobility initiative?
I’m torn between buying a class set of the iTouch or the iPhone for my Computers and Fiction Writing class and would welcome advice. Might OIT support either? Any sign of daLite lecterns or other kinds [...]
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Teaching and Technology in German
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Multimedia, Video, YouTube
One of my students, Patrick Modrovsky, is majoring in broadcasting and minoring in German. He thought that interviewing me and talking about the way I use technology in the classroom to teach German language and culture might be newsworthy. Here is the link:
http://utanews.com/ March 11, 2010 (The date is important, because as time goes by, [...]
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Ego, Passion, Desire, Love, Respect, Relationship, and Attention Span
March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Active Learning, Authoring, Composition, Distance Education
My reading of the posts in this blog, and the links posted by the writers, got me to thinking and wondering about attention span.
What is the research on long attention span? I find we talk a lot about short attention spans when dealing with lectures. However, people of many ages seem to be able to [...]
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