A Student’s Guide to Paper.li: Arianna’s Experience
We are currently examining different content curation services as to their strengths, weaknesses, ease of use, and usefulness to students. A very good guide to content curation developed by others can...
View ArticleChanges: How much tinkering should one do with a course that seems to work well?
Carroll has become a special place to me. I have been influenced greatly by its students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni. By its traditions, theater productions and its music. There are...
View ArticleA Student-Generated WordPress Tutorial for My Carroll Students
Recently there has been a campus-wide discussion about the need to include writing experiences across the curriculum and across a student’s learning years here. I’ve become a strong believer in giving...
View ArticleTeaching Tools: SPSS, InStat, StarQuiz, Camtasia, and Research Randomizer.
I am moving towards requiring that all my students demonstrate to me minimal mastery of the use of the technology-based teaching and learning tools I introduce into the classroom (e.g. Quizlet,...
View ArticleIn Search of the “Best” Screencasting Software
When I am especially busy, I encourage my student research team to use their creativity to surprise me. Here is their preliminary work for an ebook we are writing that will give student guides to...
View ArticleRediscovering VoiceThread
I continue to be alerted to so many good ideas via my the personal learning resources on my twitter feed. Today I was reminded of the valuable potential of a learning tool I abandoned and hadn’t...
View ArticleCurious David Revisits His Global Outreach Attempts
It’s past time for a more systematic global outreach by me and my students. Today I met briefly with some visitors from China. I wished them a Happy New Year of the Monkey. Then I began setting up...
View ArticleOn “Flow,”“Presence,”“Self-Actualization” and Constructive Mania
I seem to be having an unusually productive day today. I am in a state of “Flow, “Presence,—self-actualization? I seem to be fully charged even though Leo the Great and I went outside at 2:00 a.m....
View ArticleHeartfelt thanks to all my teachers I have never personally met—and one in...
Winding up; winding down. As I shoveled cleaned out organized books, folders, software, and files in my office today I came across materials from the First-Year Seminar “Pioneering Web 2.0 Learning...
View ArticleUsing Internet Tools to Maximize My Effectiveness Inside and Outside the...
Earlier this morning I had a team meeting with two of my student research assistants before leaving for an off-campus meeting with my Schneider Consulting business partners, Jane and Greg Schneider. I...
View ArticleBridging the Academic and Business Worlds
In my teaching, research, writing and consulting I try to be a bridge-builder across admittedly different disciplines, cultures, and age groups. I enjoy reading the Harvard Business Review as well as...
View ArticleRevisiting my Tool Box Tool by Tool: Take 5
Twitter: I often learn about a new technology learning tool here through selectively identifying “thought leaders.” I try to reciprocate with something that they might find of interest...
View ArticleA Student-Generated WordPress Tutorial for My Carroll Students
Recently there has been a campus-wide discussion about the need to include writing experiences across the curriculum and across a student’s learning years here. I’ve become a strong believer in giving...
View ArticleTeaching Tools: SPSS, InStat, StarQuiz, Camtasia, and Research Randomizer.
I am moving towards requiring that all my students demonstrate to me minimal mastery of the use of the technology-based teaching and learning tools I introduce into the classroom (e.g. Quizlet,...
View ArticleIn Search of the “Best” Screencasting Software
When I am especially busy, I encourage my student research team to use their creativity to surprise me. Here is their preliminary work for an ebook we are writing that will give student guides to...
View ArticleRediscovering VoiceThread
I continue to be alerted to so many good ideas via my the personal learning resources on my twitter feed. Today I was reminded of the valuable potential of a learning tool I abandoned and hadn’t...
View ArticleCurious David Revisits His Global Outreach Attempts
It’s past time for a more systematic global outreach by me and my students. Today I met briefly with some visitors from China. I wished them a Happy New Year of the Monkey. Then I began setting up...
View ArticleExceeding my Expectations: My Students Explore Book Writing
Throughout the 2015-2016 school year, we four undergraduate research assistants in “Dr. Simpson’s Neighborhood” have been familiarizing ourselves with several different learning tools described on...
View ArticleRediscovering Apps Buried on My Laptop
In preparation for contributing my suggestions to Jane Hart for her “Top 100 Tools for Learning” list I am systematically examining (and in many cases rediscovering:)) apps on my MacBook Pro. Jane...
View ArticleWhat are YOUR favorite technology learning tools?
What are your favorite technology learning tools? Now (until September 23) is a good time to send your recommendations to Jane Hart (see this link) as she for the 10th year finishes compiling...
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