The online photo album is not a complicated tool. But it can be used to do more than share pictures of junior’s first trip to the zoo. While prose writing is still a crucial skill our students can acquire, our students often need to analyze visual materials or to present…
For a long time, scholarship largely focused on words and numbers. Yes, art historians and theater scholars and radiographers thought a lot about images. But today the visual dimension of knowledge increasingly leaves mere words and numbers in the shadows. Chalk it up to the proliferation of screens–on our desks,…
In a recent blog post , Doug Mckee addresses three issues in how he should teach this fall. 1. Should I ban laptops in lecture? 2. Should I make discussion sections mandatory? 3. Should I cold-call students during lecture? Basically: no, no and no—all for the same reasons. 1. Should…
Julia Child was terrific at teaching us how to cook, eat and live. I have no monopoly on this insight. But it’s very enjoyable to be reminded not only how much a very effective and hard-working person can do in a very small space, but also how much Julia Child…
The gift of instructional technology is tools: little tools that do one or two things brilliantly, big tools that do many powerful things quickly, the constant innovation which makes what is hard one day just a click away the next. And the bane of instructional technology is: tools. Little tools…
I’m not thinking of suspicious packages. Rather, I’m thinking about the standards and ethics of our profession: folks who support teaching and learning with technology. In that regard, I saw several things at ELI 2014 which made me want to say something, and that something is basically "What goes on…
An academic IT conference in New Orleans begs to be told as a story. But those stories are mostly about good food and good company. (Beignets!) The actual “what I learned at ELI 2014” squeezes nicely into a list––or rather, a table. I personally found five presentations (panels, presentations, poster…
