Another great Infographic that helps us understand how college students are using their cellphones (and not necessarily a smartphone). Created by: HackCollege

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at Union University’s Education Research Forum with Joanne Gikas, a former doctoral student, and Suha Tamim, a current doctoral student. Some friends and colleagues have sent to me some photos of our presentations, so I thought I would share. I also found a great, quick, free little tool called Flickr [...]

Planet Text Finding the Best iOS App for Annotation and Note-Taking

The pervasiveness and utility of SMS text messaging a wide reaching and global to say the least. I encourage you to take a look at this infographic for some stats. I am particularly astounded by the comparisons of data plans compared to bank accounts toward the bottom. Created by: MBA Online

After writing my Twitter story and seeing the follow-up comments and being encouraged by Joanna Bobiash, I’m declaring Wednesday, November 16, 2011, “My Twitter Story” Day! Let’s have a blog carnival that celebrates how social networking has changed us as educators. The meaningfulness and power of social networks is varied and far reaching, and many times we are unaware of [...]

A couple of days ago, I posted about my Twitter story.  It was inspired by one of my current students that I’ve never met in an online course I’m teaching.  I thought it was a rather simple story—one that wasn’t really that unique but presented my point of view and why I thought K-12 teachers and higher education faculty should [...]

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One of my students in my online course (IDT 7064: School Change & the Internet) inspired me today.  She made me want to tell my Twitter story.  I’m pretty sure it’s not original.  I’m pretty sure it’s as pedestrian as … well pedestrians.  But it’s mine, and it is why I believe teachers and higher education faculty should try Twitter. [...]

As I continue to explore ways to make mobile teaching and learning work, I was extremely excited earlier this week when our Tennessee Board of Regents Assistant Vice Chancellor for eLearning gave me an AppleTV and said, “Use this.”  I watched good friend Tim Blais demo how to mirror your iPad2 onto an HD TV or HD project with the [...]

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