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Category Archives: Teaching
IST 446 Prototypes
Some of my students sent me descriptoins and screenshots of their games from the Spring 2011 section of IST 446 that I taught. Overall, I was very pleased with the course and received a lot of great feedback. When I … Continue reading
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Ph.D. Complete
After successfully defending my dissertation on May 5th, it is now official: I graduated on August 15th, 2009 with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Workforce Education and Development from the College of Education, the Pennsylvania State University. With the … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Teaching
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Creating Artifacts, Spring 2009
As the PhD is rapidly coming to a close (fingers crossed), I’ve been thinking a lot about my future direction. Teaching is still at the top of the priority list. Each semester I tend to change a large percent of … Continue reading
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
This semester was my first experience teaching 100+ students in a large lecture hall. The course, IST 110, is a basic introduction to the College of Information Sciences and Technology at PSU. Overall I’ve learned a LOT regarding how to … Continue reading
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Education is screwed
I’m still not sure the title of this entry reflects the content of the post…but it’s the first thing that came to mind. A few colleagues and many others are taking part in an event called “Hacking Education” going on … Continue reading
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Spring 2009: Semester of Doom
Just wanted to post something quick before the craziness starts. I’ll be teaching two courses this semester, one that I’ve never taught before, consisting of ~200 students. I’m also trying to defend my dissertation by the end of April. Also, … Continue reading
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Online course taught as a Role Playing Game (RPG)
Brian pointed this out today via Twitter: David Wiley of Brigham Young University is structuring his course similar to a role playing game, where students take on the role of an artisan, a bard, a merchant, or a monk (typical … Continue reading
Social Network Usage by Students
Expanding off my last post, as well as Cole’s op-ed piece, I stumbled across a study Karl wrote about this week regarding the use of social networking tools by 9-17 yr olds. From the article: we all might need to … Continue reading
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Facebook Usage
I had the opportunity last year to talk with a potential student about the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. His father, a renowned researcher from Singapore, was visiting for the day and had his son in … Continue reading
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Results from my IST 110 summer sections
Another two sections of IST 110 are in the books. Teaching every day, from 11-2, for 6 weeks is definitely a challenging experience. I’ll have more to reflect on later, but for the time being I want to share some … Continue reading
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