Would you like to learn more about Mahara, an open source web-based electronic portfolio system for students? Would you like to learn more about how students can customize their portfolio and feature their course work, display their resume or CV, write journals, embed...
I have two sons and wonder with a sense of mystery what it means to educate them well. I grew up believing that education was somehow about taking a bunch of stuff which was external to me and making it a part of me. You know, taking that which is external and making...
The podcast " In The Classroom, Common Ground Can Transform GPAs" on Hidden Brain with host Shankar Vedantam, we begin to see the tremendous benefit of connecting with your students - finding common ground. Of course, we already know that connecting with your students...
Recently a group of pre-service teachers asked me, “Why do we have to learn this?” It was an honest question about digital citizenship and its relationship to our curriculum. At the moment I gave a fairly general response about how much the w…
While at the Open Education Conference last week, a woman said, “I just work at a community college”, to which someone shouted “Never say ‘just’ a community college.” I don’t remember what was said after that at the session, because I was fixated on that idea, ‘just’...
In a previous article, I talked about the importance of properly formatting documents and where to start. For this article, I want to apply that same knowledge from Word to PowerPoint. Tools used for formatting in one program can often times be found in others. In...
I’ve been doing some reading to prep for a conference presentation in February, and I thought I’d share some findings about barriers to OER adoption. I particularly liked this study when I came across it in my research because of the methodology that was used. This...
Watching the digital dashboard after enrollment opens is especially gratifying when the numbers are ahead of last year. Take today for example, we are 565 students ahead for spring enrollment than we were on the comparable date in 2015. Comparing enrollment with the...
[Image: "Bull in a China Shop" by Gwen's River City Images, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] In one of my daughter’s favorite TV programs is an episode she used to love: A bull in a china shop. Mr. Bull breaks his teapot and takes to to be fixed at Ms. Rabbit’s China Shop,...