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A Bold Experiment: Live-Skim-Tweet Journal Article #tjc15
Laura Gogia, a.k.a @GoogleGuacamole, my ALT Lab colleague (NOT a Google App as one of my Twitter friends thought!) invited me to her community’s experiment to live-tweet reading a journal article. I needed little persuasion because #1. I enjoy Twitter chats and #2. I am highly curious and like to learn new things. It turned out to be a thoughtful learning experience.There are 2 dimensions about the event I’m going to highlight in this blogpost and a third one I would need to think a bit more about: 1. The…
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Faculty & Student Perceptions of Teaching Resource Use
A comparison of VCU student (n=337) and faculty responses (n=323) in the 2014 ECAR Surveys regarding tools/resources they wish their instructors would use MORE of (rated 5 on a scale of 1-5) and those that faculty MOST wish to be skillful at (click on image to enlarge): Ranking of faculty and student perceptions of resources students want more use of and faculty want to be more skillful at. A comparison of VCU student and faculty responses in the 2014 ECAR Surveys regarding tools/resources they wish their instructors would use LESS of (rated…
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My First Storify Experiment on Understanding #fedwikihappening
[View the story “Understanding #fedwikihappening” on Storify]
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Oblique Strategies to Overcome Mental Blocks
Applicants to All Soul’s College at Oxford were required — until recently — to write essays in response to a single-word prompt within three hours. These essays were used to gain insight into prospective students’ ability to be imaginative and leverage their existing knowledge to make connections (Seelig, 2012, cited in Tina Seelig’s MOOC, Creativity: Music to My Ears, 2014).In a recent meeting, the word “vulnerability” in learning surfaced. I was inspired to associate the word with several books I’d read and some life experiences — akin to how “oblique…
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How to Embed Wow Slider into a Blogger Post
I spent a good bit of last night trying to embed a Wow Slider series of images into this blog, by Blogger. So I am documenting how I finally got it to work — to help anyone who might be looking for help like me. Wow Slider’s FAQs were confusing and not much help for Blogger users. WordPress has a plugin but for Blogger users, things are less rosy. I couldn’t solve the problem despite pasting and repasting the codes and tweaking with it. Googling didn’t produce many results. This…
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Blogging as a Teaching Tool
Here’s the slideshow for the first Minnowbrook presentation on May 15, 2008 on Slideshare and on my own webspace (this one was impaticized and so has transitions).
