In the News

Jamie Oberdick wrote a great article about the ID-2-ID program. He interviewed me, Matt and a few other learning designers for the article. Here is the link to the article. It was a nice way to sum up our experience with ID-2-ID. I am looking forward to applying for the program again. I hope to participate as a buddy this time around. ... [Continue Reading]

March Reflection

"Let me grab a cup of coffee, and I'll be right there." That is how most of our ID-2-ID mentor meetings began, so I thought that this image of a reflection in a coffee cup would very appropriate to accompany my final mentorship reflection. Matthew Bodek (at PSU's Brandywine Campus) and I (at University Park) met every other week via Zoom. It worked splendidly, and ... [Continue Reading]

Close Examination

Matt and I met again this week via Zoom. We discussed a variety of topics, including the town hall meeting on What is Content? that Matt had to miss, and updates on a few of my courses. I shared with him the changes that are currently being implemented in GEOG 497C: GIS for Transportation. We are going to use Yammer as a platform for conducting discussions with 6 guest ... [Continue Reading]

Branching Out

Matt and I met this morning for the first time since the new semester started. Our main topic of conversation was the ID-2-ID Workshop that we both attended on Monday of this week. I found the workshop very informative. The speakers included Jennifer Sparrow, who discussed Penn State's affiliation with Unizin; and Rosemarie Piccioni, who discussed EdTech at Penn ... [Continue Reading]

Harried Holidays

Matt and I met today for the final time in 2014. We are both in the middle of the rush to get our courses online and ready to go for Spring semester. We spent the beginning of our meeting comparing notes and commiserating over the amount of work left to do before January.  We then decided to move on to more productive discussion. :) We both just participated in OL 2900, ... [Continue Reading]

Chugging Along

Matt and I met today. It was a chance for us to regroup after the WeVideo Google Hangout I hosted last week with Nick Smerker. The Hangout went really well, and answered many of our burning questions about WeVideo, and the way it will be used in GEOG 128. That being said, Matt reminded me of some more key points in our discussion today. In particular: Length of video ... [Continue Reading]

PSU Platforms

Matt and I held another bi-weekly meeting on Tuesday, November 11th. The focus of our meeting discussion was our interaction/collaboration over the last several weeks on the WeVideo project. As you might remember, Matt and I had started a collaborative video project on Tools for Online Collaboration and Discussion. We have been working hard to try lots of different ... [Continue Reading]

WeVideo!

Matt and I met again on Tuesday, October 28th. The major topic of conversation was our beginning collaboration with the WeVideo platform. Matt will be collaborating with me on a video project. I hope to become very familiar with the platform so that I can be a valuable resource for one of my course authors who plans to incorporate a WeVideo project as a major assignment ... [Continue Reading]

Bits & Pieces

Tuesday, September 30th was another biweekly meeting with Matt. We met again via Zoom. Our conversation, again, bounced around a variety of different topics. We began with a debrief of the Bryan Alexander roundtable. The Adobe Connect connection was not the greatest, so Matt felt that he had missed some of the discussion of the day. I was able to fill him on on some of ... [Continue Reading]

Roundtable with Bryan Alexander

On Thursday, September 25th, participants in the ID2ID program had the privilege of participating in an informal roundtable discussion with Bryan Alexander, noted speaker, author and consultant in the field of using technology to transform education. Matt participated via Adobe Connect, while I participated in person at Outreach. I found the experience very enriching and ... [Continue Reading]

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