As President-Elect of the Research and Theory Division for AECT, I wanted to pass along the call for proposals.  Proposals are due February 15, 2012.  That’s a Wednesday this year.  Please note that R&T looks for 3 categories of proposals, that is completed studies, works in progress, and methodological presentations.  The details of the categories and types of sessions is [...]

Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions: Instructional Designers: To Degree or Not Degree? U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage

From my Inbox … The deadline is Monday, January 9, 2012. Call for Participants: 2012 Division C New Faculty Mentoring Program in Vancouver Deadline: Monday, January 9, 2012 The Division C New Faculty Mentoring Program (NFMP) has three main goals: (a) to provide an interactive seminar with relevant information and support for new faculty, addressing areas of concern such as [...]

I found out earlier today that Obion County Central High School began experimenting with “Bring Your Own Device” when students returned from winter break this semester.  This is a great step forward in leveraging technologies with public schools. I plan on contacting the Superintendent David Huss for Obion County Schools first to congratulate him on this “big step” and second [...]

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I started a series of posts on strategies I have been using for mobile learning (#mlearning) and teaching in one of my graduate instructional technology courses.  In the first post, I described the use of Remind101.com and how I had used it with my students as both a messaging service for reminders, [...]