Archive for December, 2006

End of Year “Reflection”

December 28, 2006Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

Well, I’ve held off on using the “R” word for any tagging on this blog, but I guess that it is the end of the calendar year that causes me to think about reflection, even though it is a term that is fraught with problems, as my adviser, Lynn Fendler, points out. At any rate, [...]

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And Time’s Person of the Year is…

December 18, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

OK, if we didn’t have enough of a reason to teach our students that they are, indeed, producers of digital writing — and that this matters as a skill they need to have — this story might be the final straw that convinces educators that we need to take it seriously: But look at 2006 [...]

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Podcasting with Bonnie, Thinking about Critical Aspects of Digital Literacy

December 7, 2006Troy Hicks 5 Comments »

Bonnie asks a good (and loaded) question here: How could I bring the podcasts onto the team blog? Well, a few of you noticed that I tried to test a podcast through my blog/feed the other day. I did that to help Bonnie from HVWP to do a podcast for her tech team. Then, Karen [...]

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Test Podcast

December 5, 2006Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

Just testing.

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Peer Review Publishing

December 2, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Yesterday, I attended “Peer Review Publishing as a Tool for Teaching Biotechnology: The MMG 445 eJournal Experiment Using Production-Level Freeware” by George Garrity, MSU Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. George will describe a teaching experiment, now in its second year, that he and his colleagues, Terry Marsh, and Scott Harrison, began in MMG 445: Basic Biotechnology. [...]

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