Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
It’s been almost two years since I participated in Scott McClouds’ comic book workshop, and there are lingering artefacts and ideas which I see and think about all the time. Above is a series of images from Scotts’ book Making Comics which he had printed on 8.5 X 11, and taped up over a window on our … Continue reading 16 panel biography, a comic book assignment
This exercise posed a few problems for me, not the least of which was the time constraint. Of course at the end of the exercise I saw quite a few things that I thought would be more appropriate than the images I am submitting now, but I decided to stick to the parameters. I found […]
From Sydney Pressey to MOOCs to Teaching Machines. The video from Sydney Pressey’s Teaching “Machines” (1964) http://youtu.be/n7OfEXWuulg here is remixed with audio from Anant Agarwal’s “Why Massively Open Online Courses […]
For me, blog posts are like hot potatoes. I don’t want to hang onto an idea for too long. The longer I hang on to it one of two things happens: 1) I overthink it and agonize over every detail, or 2) I get bored with it and could(n’t?) care less. I typically spend 1 … Continue reading My thought process when writing a post →
I’m just going to leave this here… I’ll explain later #bookmarked
For the You Show unit 3, one of the things we could do was a design safari, where we take pictures of things that express certain design principles (which are explained through links, here). I have been trying to find designs to take pictures of all last week and this week (I’m a bit behind), […]
The good ‘ol desk slump hump a.k.a. how we all became the Humpback of NoTRUdame I should preface this post by saying I love my job and the flexibility it allows me to constantly learn, grow, experiment and challenge myself on a daily basis. I am, however, a restless scholar and without regular movement I … Continue reading Desk Slump Hump →
It certainly seems like there is a lot more interest in the skill of instructional design these days.creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by led-maha.weebly.com. Perhaps this interest comes from the increase in modes of learning that are available today. Particularly in the e-learning realm. People can choose anything from MOOC’s which
Evening before last I took my dog to the dog park out by the airport. As soon as I got out of the car I heard them. Two owls. From somewhere up in the hills they are talking to each other. For a moment I wonder if they are pigeons. Then I wish I had […]
When I search Google for “engagement WKU” or “student engagement” I get a hot mess of stuff. In fact it clarifies for me how the word has lapsed into confusion (at least for me). The Google nGram chart below for “student engagement” indicates that before 1962 there is no record of the use of the … Continue reading Engagement: I Do Not Think It Memes What You Think It Memes →