In most of my work, I strive for openness and transparency as an open researcher and educator. My purpose in this is to explore and play with possible new opportunities for scholarship in digital contexts. I’ve written in the past about how (and why) to become a digitally agile researcher. I’ve also written about how to…
On March 7th, 2012 the Connecticut State Board of Education approved the licensure and hybrid learning format of the Instructional Technology & Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program. Approving this new program set a bold and innovative roadmap for the future of hybrid teaching and learning initiatives that are becoming vital educational tools. The program and…
TL;DR Version: Come join, lurk, connect, share, and learn in the Online Research & Media Skills MOOC. We’ll be discussing ways to integrate the Mozilla Web Literacy Map into our classroom. And…yeap…we’ve got badges. Join here. Come join us for the first official running of the Online Research & Media Skills (ORMS) moderated, open, online…
This trimester students in our IT&DML program will begin building and refining their digital learning hub. As I detailed in a previous post, the digital learning hub is viewed as the teaching space, or the teacher website for each individual. The “hub” as it is affectionately referred to is a sister-site to the blog that…
TL;DR Version: This post details our use of Google Groups to form an in-house, private personal learning network for support and scaffold students. This details possibilities for constructing your own in-house discussion groups to draw on the power of the hive mind. As I’ve detailed many times on this blog, one of the key tenets…
We’re up and running with the second year of student entering the IT&DML program. As detailed in previous posts, we’re believers in open, and transparency for instructors and students in the program. As a result, students maintain and post openly to their own blogs. The blog posts are typically for regular reflection and response throughout…
Today we start the second year of the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program. As I have detailed in a series of posts on this blog, the IT&DML program is built using Google Apps, and free online tools. Originally, the program was designed to exist in iTunesU, and use iPads. We made a…
This post is part of a series of 11 posts in which we’re sharing the syllabi for all 11 courses in the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program. Please keep in mind the materials we’re sharing here are the documents and specifics as approved when we initially launched the program. The “real” implementation of these…
Over the course of the next week I’ll continue to detail elements of the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program. The IT&DML program is a Sixth Year Certificate program in the State of Connecticut. I have been documenting the specifics of the program over a series of blog posts. The next 11 posts (including this…
The Instructional Technologies & Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program is designed for educators who understand that 21st Century teachers must embrace and utilize the technological, cultural, and sociological changes that undergird a differently-connected society. The program is specifically designed to prepare educators with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to effectively and authentically embed instructional technologies into all content…