Over the next few posts, I’m planning to share strategies that I recently used for mobile learning (mlearning) and teaching in one of my courses. I hope you find these strategies helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions. In full disclosure, I didn’t come up with some of these ideas. Instead, colleagues, particularly on Twitter, we [...]
I am coming off of two full days of Google Apps training, so I’m a little tired. But I am so excited that the University of Memphis Conference on Mobile Teaching and Learning is finally here! I am really looking forward to speaking with folks from K-12 public and private schools, as well as higher education faculty members from other [...]
This is just a quick announcement to let everyone know to save the date of October 12. At the University of Memphis, together with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and IEEE, we will be hosting a full day of professional development targeted at mobile computing. This will include mobile teaching and learning for higher education and K-12, and it will [...]
Beginning this Sunday, June 19, I will be attending and presenting at the Tennessee Education Mobilization Summit hosted by Walters State Community College. This is a program sponsored by the Tennessee Board of Regents eLearning initiative, Walters State Community College, the Mid-East Tenessee Regional P-16 Council for Excellence in Education, and the Hamblen County Department of Education. In addition to [...]
Early Monday morning I had the pleasure of sharing with 18+ faculty members and university staff members at the College of Charleston during their annual Faculty Technology Institute. Monica Harvey, the Interim Director for the Teaching, Learning, & Technology Department of Information Technology, invited my to video conference in for the keynote to set the tone for the week of [...]
Hi, everyone! I just wanted to let you know about two graduate courses I will be teaching this summer. Both are during the first summer term (June 4 – July 6, 2011). The brief descriptions are below. Feel free to email me about either course. IDT 7078/8078: Mobile Teaching & Learning This special topics seminar will be focused on the [...]
Before … A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a grant program from the federal government that was going to require that the course content created be SCORM compliant. This was based on an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education that said: Some higher-education leaders say a little-noticed technical note in a new $2-billion federal grant program could make [...]
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, SCORM’s limited value to eLearning and training has become more high profile. The Chronicle reports: Some higher-education leaders say a little-noticed technical note in a new $2-billion federal grant program could make it difficult for colleges to use the money to build free online course materials. The issue centers around a [...]
As I mentioned about a month ago, along with experimenting with mobile learning in my course this summer, I also decided to test out HootCourse. HootCourse is a Twitter tool that allows you to create courses, invite students, and automatically adds a hashtag for your course. Like other Twitter tools, it performs a search based on the hashtag and keeps [...]
These are my Jumptags for March 17th through April 13th: Problems with ADDIE – Moving Your WordPress Site and Database « Weblog Tools Collection – here comes a time you may have to leave one web host for another. No matter the reason the idea of relocating an entire website – especially one that has been online for sometime – [...]
