Category: Open Content
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Feature in ACI Author Spotlight
Thank you to ACI Information Group’s Traci Hector for featuring me in their Author Spotlight this month. Also, my profile on ACI is available here. As I continue to move forward in my career, I need to think about the ways in which sites like ACI, ORCID, and others work, I am curious to know more…
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Introducing EDU 807: Learning Tools in Education Technology
As the fall semester comes to a close, it is already time for me to turn my attention to the winter/spring. In 2016, I will have my first opportunity to teach a doctoral course, CMU’s EDU 807: Learning Tools in Education Technology. My goal/hope is to reenergize my blogging activity and to share some timely…
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Fandom Mashup with Mozilla’s Popcorn
For anyone that has read this blog, seen my guest post on the Heinemann website, or heard me speak in the past few months, you know that I am becoming more and more intrigued with Mozilla’s Popcorn as a digital writing tool. Last week, my students in ENG 201 started playing around with Popcorn as…
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DLDay 2014 NCTE Chat
In the next few weeks, I will be participating in a few events related for Digital Learning Day. Here’s one of them: January 19, 2014: Celebrate Digital Learning! As you prepare for Digital Learning Day (#DLDay) — February 5, 2014 — join two NCTE members and edubloggers for a conversation about classroom technology’s past, present,…
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Brief Summary of #TheDigitalClassroom Hangout
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to be invited to an AdvancED webinar featuring: Sean Cavanagh: @EdWeekSCavanagh (Moderator), Assistant Editor for Education Week Angela Maiers: @AngelaMaiers Founder and President of Maiers Education Services Jackie Gerstein Ed.D.: @jackiegerstein Online Adjunct Faculty for Departments of Education Darren Burris: @dgburris Teacher & Instructional Coach at Boston Collegiate Charter It was an incredibly fast-paced and…
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Information on the 21st Century Youth Project
After an email exchange with Antonio Rowry, a cofounder at 21st Century Youth Project, I felt it was appropriate to share the work of their organization here on my blog. They describe themselves as “an innovative after school initiative to do a small part to change education” and here is more straight from Antoinio: The idea…
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Updates on Thinkfinity
For many years, I have been a fan of Thinkfinity, especially ReadWriteThink. And, while I have generally stopped posting messages about new web-based products and services from the many, many emails that I get each month, this one caught my attention: The Verizon Foundation have partnered with nationally recognized leaders in educational disciplines including literacy,…
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Announcing MIT’s International Journal of Learning and Media
Today, I received an exciting announcement from Kellie Bramlet with MIT Press Journals. In addition to the series of books that they released last year with a Creative Commons license, they are now offering the following new journal: The International Journal of Learning and Media MIT Press, in cooperation with The Monterey Institute for Technology…
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Rough Draft Thinking for a Hybrid Professional Development Experience
Well, we have a hybrid professional development experience coming up on September 24th for the Project WRITE teachers. In trying to meet a number of constraints and opportunities, I have set up a wiki page for the evening’s activities. Here is some of my thinking about why and how this is set up this way,…
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NOVA Videos Available for Free Use
Today, I got an email from Karinna from WGBH in Boston — this sounds like an incredible resource! Just in time for the new school year, the critically-acclaimed season of NOVA scienceNOW is now available for free download directly from its Web site. Wrapping up its third season this summer, this magazine-style science series from…