I am a photographer and also teach at Michigan State University in the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program (EPET).
In this blog I share ideas about learning, technology and games, particularly looking at how openness, choice, and play through technology facilitate learning. I am also interested in the Open Ed and Edupunk related ideas floating around currently. Read more...
And old friend and great writer, Christina Rencontre, has a blog on digital storytelling and new media in the classroom called Telling with Tech. Some good posts already and resources; definitely worth following! url=http://crencontre.wordpress.com Hopefully this gets me inspired to get back to blogging again as well.
Flickr Photo by SuperKimbo / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Cross posted on IdeaPlay.org A recent technology article in the NY Times online, “The Web Way to Learn a Language” by Erica Taub, anecdotally points to the success of one learner who “spoke in perfect American English” even though this young woman “was born in Iran and [...]
This week is the final week for you to catch up on all weekly labs and blog posts before a final assessment. Most of you have been doing well keeping up fortunately :) The main goal this week is to work on your portfolio site and your final technology integration lesson which are due as [...]
There was some problem with the earlier post this past weekend for the Week 13 work on Ning. So here is a modified Week 13 posting to touch on some of the things I’d like you to explore. Wikis: The main tool I’d like you to explore farther this week is the Wiki. You’ve been [...]
Flickr Photo by undergrounder/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In keeping with the holiday this week, I’d like to give thanks for all things Internet that make our lives more connected, more informed, and often easier. However, like the Thanksgiving Feast many of us share in the fall of some sort or another, people often are [...]
Flickr photo by Lucas Gillispie / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Twitter, Facebook, peers, colleagues, friends, family. We have a bunch of networks we rely on for information, guidance, comfort, etc. This past month I’ve suffered through the flu and then some personal problems as well. In looking back at this time, I found it somewhat interesting, [...]
(since something is wrong with the blog portion of our Ning this week, I posted CEP416 instructions here on my blog) A great way to engage your students is to tell them a story. A great way to get students involved in a project is have them tell a story. This weeks workshop makes use [...]
Lea, M., Spears, R., & De Groot, D. (2001). Knowing me, knowing you: Effects of visual anonymity on self-categorization, stereotyping and attraction in computer-mediated groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 526-537. What was the research question or what were the research questions? H1: visual anonymity would lead to greater group attraction - anonymity would [...]
My CEP416 pre-service Teacher Ed. students blogged in the past week or so about the technology they’ve seen used in their placements. Those not in placements either blogged about past educational experiences with technology or what they have or have not seen of its use in their classes here at MSU. Flickr photo by sidereal/ [...]
Flickr photo by One Laptop per Child / CC BY 2.0 Highlights from slides of Allan Collins talk at MSU based on the book: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson First off described some individual stories or cases from the book. Examples of students who have done things [...]
New Blog: Telling with Tech
Posted on August 19th, 2010
Is it the Tech or is it the Choice?
Posted on February 2nd, 2010
Week 9: Digital Storytelling
Posted on November 1st, 2009
Not a Cheery State of Tech in Schools
Posted on October 6th, 2009
On: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
Posted on October 2nd, 2009
MSU 2009 Technology Conference
Posted on September 29th, 2009
Laptops in College Classes
Posted on September 25th, 2009
The Blog Beast: Yet another blog post on blogging!
Posted on September 22nd, 2009
On using Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Posted on September 17th, 2009
On Battlefronts in Education
Posted on September 11th, 2009