Critical Thinking with Digital Media is EASy

Since the beginning of formal education, instructors the world over have struggled with how to get their students to dig deeper, reach farther, and push themselves beyond mere adequacy.  Teachers, too, are pushed to challenge ourselves to be more than just average, to do more than just accept the status quo.  We instructors are to [...]

Catch the Google Wave?

Will you be one of the first to try Google’s new Wave?  You can see it introduced here in this longgggggg video.
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Dusting off my keyboard

It has been a while.  By the looks of the dust and cobwebs around here, a very long while, since I have taken the time to get this blog rolling again.  I have been busy – I sent my youngest child off to college, co-authored a book on teaching online (more about that in a [...]

ttyl, y? bcuz pos

The young live, eat, and breathe this language by cell, IM, and email 24/7. It is their native language – we will not break them of it – we must accept that. Obviously not all conventions or presentation problems found in classroom writing are texting-based, but txt does creep in.

The Icebreaker

What’s your guilty pleasure TV show? You’re first pet? Where was your last vacation? Favorite song in high school?  Of the following two sentences, pick which one is true about me: A) My hair is blonde B) I believe in the power of Ice Breakers for online teaching.
Nothing builds a community faster than allowing a [...]

Google goes gaga for educators

I will write more on this later, but Google launched two new sites today specifically aimed at networking teachers and teaching across the web.
 Check them out and track back!
First up, Google Literacy

Followed by Google for Educators
Enjoy!

Tags: Teaching, Education, Online, eLearning, Google, Web2.0, Digital Literacy