YouTube - Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger

YouTube - Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger

15 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks

15 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks

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First post for EDUC 675 Sp 2010

I love this course! I teach it once a year and every year it's almost brand new. "Internet Tools and Practices" what a large, open canvas upon which to dab and dribble bits of color to enliven teaching and learning. As I hope you will come to appreciate, I find teaching one of the most creative of human endeavors. I enjoy the freedom and challenge of meeting individual needs, of using found objects to make new tools, of feeling the flash of intuition for myself and of seeing it in the eyes of others. I see teaching as a journey, one that began for me more than 40 years ago and one which I still find challenging especially in this, newish to me, medium of the internet. Teaching across time and distance deprives us of that instant feedback that in the classroom is comprised of body language, facial expression, voice inflection, and the inexpressible sense of being together in one place at the same time. But, the internet opens so many new doors for us as teachers it makes up for some of the lack of the "personal touch".

I love "new" and "change" and I find the possibilities of a "blended" course the best of two worlds: 1) access to the infinite set of tools and resources found online and 2) the brief but informative face-to-face meetings we have scheduled.

When you respond to this post say a few words about how you, at this moment in time, feel about online/blended teaching and learning. We'll look back near the end of the course and see if attitudes have shifted.

Connecting Students, Not Hardware - ISTEvision

Connecting Students, Not Hardware - ISTEvision

Foley_contest_Podcast_final.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Foley_contest_Podcast_final.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

ISTE | Computing in the Clouds

ISTE | Computing in the Clouds

Long Dry Spell

It's been a long dry spell since the last post... last summer after the big motorcycle trip to Alaska with a stop in Bonneville. I'm gearing up for a new session of EDUC 675 at Otterbein and thought I'd better re-acquaint myself with Blogger and blogging.

Today we are in Palm Desert,CA with friends Jane and Don and will soon be joined by two more couples from central Ohio... Dick and Adele and Kay and Denny. We are all connected by Otterbein/Westerville at least by marriage.

It's a bit after 9 AM and we are just getting a peek of sun after a night of rain. It seems that wherever we go we bring Ohio weather with us... checked the temp in Columbus and it's not much different than here. At least the lows are not as low. Regardless, we will have a great time with friends and of course the scenery is wonderful. Just look over my left shoulder and see a 10,000 ft mountain, green trees, just had a freshly picked grapefruit.