Educators must prepare students to be the multiliterate individuals that they will need to be successful in their futures. Schools are ultimately responsible for preparing students to be critical users of available technologies (Damarin, 2000; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004), problem solvers, and good communicators in networked civic spaces (Mishra & Kereluik, 2011; Binkley…
Alan Levine recently posted a series of questions to help others think through some of thoughts and motivations as we develop and maintain a domain of our own. I’ve written a lot about this in the past, and I’ll try to include some links to content/posts as I respond to the prompts. This is a…
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about how I use Hypothesis in my own research and writing, and also in my classes with students. In various blog posts here on this website, and also videos on my YouTube channel, I’ve detailed how and why I use this as an assessment, and tool to…
At F8 2016, Facebook revealed their roadmap for the next ten years. One of the key elements of this roadmap includes the use and development of bots to serve as a smarted interface for the user. A bot is basically a set of scripts, or a program that is taught to act in specific ways.…
This post will contain the presentation materials and supplemental links for my session titled “Why in the world would you want to develop a MOOC – Teaching and Learning in Open, Online, Educational Spaces.” This talk was held at the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. In this session I’ll discuss my thinking and…
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…
We’re nearing the end of Learning Event Six of the #WalkMyWorld Project 2015. You can learn more about Learning Event Six by clicking here. This week we shared elements of our dreams and what these dreams say about us. We thought about dreams, or even nightmares and tried to make sense of them. We used digital texts…
In a continuing series of posts I’ll discuss the key components and classes of the Instructional Technology & Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program. The IT&DML program is a graduate level program designed to make individuals experts in the use of educational technologies and digital media in teaching and learning. To learn more about the IT&DML…
This page serves as my application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge as offered by Doug Belshaw. The badge, and the requisite criteria are available here. To review my work to submit for this open badge I consulted the Web Lit Map available here and pasted in the descriptors below. I am applying for this…
The Instructional Technologies and Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program is a Sixth Year Certificate program in the State of Connecticut. The website has some of the info about the program: http://www.newhaven.edu/itdml Some of the specifics include: The IT&DML is designed for people who are current CT teachers or other instructional professionals. The IT&DML offers expertise in authentic and effective use of instructional technologies in educational settings. CT teachers…