I am super excited to let everyone know that Dr. Alistair Windsor and I have been awarded a science, technology, engineering, and math teacher professional development grant with Tipton County Schools and Lauderdale County Schools here in Tennessee. This grant titled “Mobiles, Math, INquiry & Data (mMIND)” is funded by the Tennessee Department of Education‘s higher education commission and our [...]
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Today, I am excited to visit Union University with my friend and colleague Dr. Anna Clifford. We will be exploring using mobile computing devices for teaching and learning. I have put together a PBWorks page on my professional development wiki that aggregates a number of resources and links, so definitely check it out. Here’s the QR code, too, to that [...]
The Research and Theory Division is now accepting nominations for the following awards: Dean and Sybil McClusky Research Award This award is presented to honor the most outstanding doctoral research proposal in educational technology, as selected by a jury of researchers from the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). For more information, go [...]
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A couple of days ago, I shared a great little mobile app called WhatTheFont. It must be Type Week! Yesterday, from Smashing Magazine‘s twitter feed, I came to find out about Type Connection. It’s kind of like Love Connection for fonts but without Chuck Woolery. It’s a fun little game, where you can choose from a few fonts and then [...]
I just wanted to let all of our doctoral students in IDT and ICL know about a course I’m teaching this summer. IDT 8500 is referred to as “the writing class” by our students. This course will be offered completely online, but it will be synchronous. We will meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 8:30 pm online [...]
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AECT’s Teacher Education Division (TED) and the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) are co-hosting a webinar on Education in the Age of Mobility. Dr. Shari Metcalf, Dr. Amy Kamarainen, and Dr. Yu-Chang Hsu will present on using mobile apps within educational settings. Wednesday, April 18th from 5:00-6:00 PM EST. REGISTER AND LOGIN AT https://cc.readytalk.com/r/rvd1qbdxwifg Here’s abstracts of the presenters: Shari Metcalf [...]
This aggregated resource comes from Dustin Betonio at Tripwire Magazine. While specifically targetd at web designers, I believe elearning developers and mobile learning developers would also benefit from these ebooks. A few that I will be adding to my iPad 2 are: Introduction to Good Usability Integrating Accessibility Through Design A Practical Guide To Web Typography The Elements of Typographic [...]
