Let’s see. A few updates. In case you didn’t hear me mention it elsewhere (or in person), I’m not teaching the digital storytelling class this fall. As it turns out, the need that the Dean’s office thought they had for classes meeting a particular gen ed requirement turned out to not exist. Meh. I was [...]
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The dog days of summer are upon us in the ‘burg. Temperatures have been in the 90′s for days with the humidity rising, rising. I’m someone who actually enjoys climbing into a hot, stifling car after a hot, stifling day. The heat seems to have a cleansing effect on my mind — pushing any number [...]
If you’re looking for a post about instructional technology, the demise of higher education, or the woes of hacking software to bend it to your will, move along. This isn’t the one for you. Five years ago today at 4:16 in the morning, my whole world changed. The universe sort of hiccuped, spun 180 degrees, [...]
I’ve mentioned in this space before that next year my family embarks on the next great adventure of childhood — my daughter’s entrance into public school. It’s a transition that I, frankly, am approaching with a great deal of trepidation. For the last 18 months, she’s been attending a small, private school in our town. [...]
Two (or Three) Great Tastes: My Converging InstTech, Dig Hum, K-12 Networks
Published March 17th, 2010 6 CommentsA funny thing has happened to my social network (or personal learning network, if you prefer) over the last few years. It’s grown. A lot. About two years ago, I started to follow and pay closer attention to the digital humanities field. I think it was a combination of things that brought be there: work [...]
On Thursday, I’m scheduled to present at ACCS in Charlottesville. This will be my first real conference presentation since summer of 2008, but, one thing hasn’t changed. As usual, I’m woefully under-prepared and starting to get nervous about pulling my act together. A nasty cold bug that took me down last week didn’t help; it [...]
I have several posts that I plan on writing about my past weekend at Educon. Before I proceed, let me just get one thing out of the way: this was one of the best conferences I have ever been to. I’m going to talk in a future post about why I think this was, but, [...]
Aside from last year’s Faculty Academy, it’s been almost a year and a half since I’ve attended a conference. This was a personal decision on my part. I chose to come back to UMW part-time after my maternity leave and staying home with my family has been my number-one priority. But last January, I listened [...]
In which, against my better judgement, I publically admit that Jim Groom might be right
Published January 10th, 2010 7 CommentsIn our offices at DTLT we are all frequently victims of listening to each others’ diatribes against any number of forces threatening higher education, online community, and the world, in general. One of Jim Groom’s favorite topics to rail about is “Twitter is killing Blogging.”
Okay, now that that’s done, let me tell you why I really don’t suck after all. (As if there was really any doubt.) As of about a week and a half ago, I am the owner of this Web site and domain. Up until then, the University of Mary Washington (where I work part-time), owned [...]
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