In moving this site to WordPress I decided to add and update a section on presentations. As with so many things, tabulating one’s results brings up interesting correlations. The presentations all seem to be about people, not technology. It would be easy to think, looking at the topics, that I don’t spend much of my day on very technical issues. […]
» Read moreSeveral faculty who attended Hofstra’s 75th anniversary celebration stated that they thought the cultural difference between students and faculty was bigger now than it had ever been in their experience. Some of my staff love to remind me that “kids are crazy” has long been a cry of every older generation. Somewhere in between these two points is the truth. […]
» Read moreI know there’s a lot of confusion surrounding these hot topics when I hear from a faculty member who asks me “I don’t understand what the hype is about – isn’t this just like posting readings in Blackboard?” None of these topics is just like posting readings in Blackboard, but none of these things is really the same as any […]
» Read moreEven my students are showing up knowing WordPress. For now the faculty computing blog I write remains at facultycomputing.blogspot.com; I will figure out how to double-entry those articles here or just add them in a frame. I do tweet and facebook when a new article goes up! I will post a short summary of the New York Times Schools for […]
» Read moreIn a 21st century world where just about any data is available at your fingertips at any time, memorizing information is a skill that few people need any more. I’m not one of those faculty who bemoans the loss of memorization skills (though I can still remember many of the Latin conjugation forms I learned in high school, and would […]
» Read moreTrent Batson is a colleague who is always several steps ahead of me and I love his Campus Technology article, “10 Rules of Teaching in this Century“. If we really read and understood and debated all the suggestions of this article, we would know pretty much everything we need to know about teaching with technology today. It’s a short, sweet […]
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