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…
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…
TL;DR Version: Over the coming weeks I’ll detail the syllabus and materials for each of the courses in the IT&DML program. The purpose of this is to remain as transparent as possible as we continue to develop this cutting edge program for the use of technology in teaching and learning. We coming to the end…
TL;DR version: The Digital Texts and Tools Online Repository (DT&T) is an open educational resource that we’re collaboratively building to archive teaching and learning materials for others to use. Over the years I’ve urged educators to develop their online presence. In doing so I believe they should have a blog, and a digital learning “hub”.…
Yesterday we held the third episode of Digitally Literate. The show is a monthly, hour-long netcast that we produce using a Google Hangout-on-Air. The Digitally Literate show focuses on “meta-level” issues associated with literacy, education, and (sometimes) technology. The goal is to produce a discussion forum in which a panel of experts discuss challenges and…
I’m currently enrolled in the DLMOOC along with some of the great students in our IT&DML program and some friends from the interwebz. It should be fun to not only learn along side of my students…but also connect with some of the usual suspects that I bump into in these online learning environments. For week…
Yesterday we held our second TechTalk of the year. TechTalk is a monthly show that focuses on specific digital texts or tools that should be used in your classrooms. We view classrooms as stretching from K through 12, and up into higher education. The show is meant to provide an easy to access overview of…
NOTE: Much of this content is antiquated as we’ve moved to a BYOB policy and currently use student blogs as a communication and assessment tool. Also…we never used iPads, we started off the program using Chromebooks and have always been using GAFE. Follow the IT&DML tag on this blog to see the evolution of the…
When Google Drive was officially launched, I wrote up a basic overview of how you potentially could be backing up your computer to gDrive…and integrating this into collaboration with students and colleagues. By now you hopefully have taken me up on installing gDrive to your computer and have synced your docs to the cloud. Let’s take a…