WordPress at TLT Labs

In the first months of my job as the Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy, I spent a lot of time meeting with individual faculty members or department heads, discussing the state of the use of technology in their teaching. Sometimes, those one on one discussions resulted in an invitation to present at a department meeting, [...]

After months (okay, maybe weeks) of planning, I’m excited to announce the introduction of the College of the Liberal Arts iPad Summer Research Project (CLAISRP?  Perhaps this is an initiative that is better left without an acronym.) We in the Liberal Arts are already exploring the utility of the iPad for classroom use, thanks to the [...]

I was in a meeting last week and the small group of us realized that we had a question that someone else outside of our group could answer.  The team leader suggested that he would email that individual after the […]

Wow– so hard to reconcile the use of Facebook groups described here with the typical “I got hammered at the ZTA formal” groups (not that I ever got hammered at a ZTA formal– oh wait. . . yes I did.)<a […]

One day out of class and I’m STILL posting links. . . is that dedication or what?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103513.html?hpid=sec-tech

Just to have a laugh and sing a song;Seems we just got started and before we know it, Comes the time we have to say So Long” Those of my vintage (and maybe younger, thanks to Nick atNite) may recognize this as the […]

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrificea whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we thinkyou’re crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as<br […]

Very interesting– K-12 teachers, beware!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702213.html?hpid=topnews

At first blush, the design segment of the course seemed likeit got the shaft.  We were asked tofinish the Wenger segment on design, but didn’t have the opportunity to reallydebrief on it as a group in class as we […]

Interesting Twitter experimenthttp://mashable.com/2008/04/17/ru4real/

Interesting article on what is likely the harbinger of the Death of Texting for the teenage demohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003784.html?hpid=artslot

I liked the piece on literacy–much easier to digest than Wenger.  Figure 1.1 is a very helpful comparison of 1.0 vs. 2.0, and would be a good place to start to explain it to someone new to the concept.  The […]

Wenger once again causes my head to throb as I attempt to decipher his thoughts.  And by decipher, I don’t mean the traditional meaning of “decipher”, I mean. . .  And by “attempt”, I don’t mean the traditional […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&NR=1

All: This article is not only interesting, but also features our favorite–Psuedo-Simon Andrew Keen!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033102856.html

Okay, I’m sure that little riff on Twitter has probably been used a million times, but one of the main takeaways I got from the TLT Symposium was not from the content itself (though the content was really […]

Wenger’s discussion on identity talks about how we’re all the sum of our parts– we have many different identities, depending on where we are, who we’re with, what we’ve experienced, etc.   What if there’s a big […]