In our everyday interactions, we utilize a variety of digital texts and tools to create and curate a digital identity. We have websites linked to other websites. Social media links connecting this work to the work of peers and colleagues. We use social networks to tweet, blog, and post our ideas and share his out with the world to…
On March 22nd, 2016, I presented on the Open Badges in Higher Ed working group call. The purpose of the call was to speak about some of my thinking about blockchain technologies and potential futures in research and development. In the discussion I defined blockchain and related technologies. I also discussed the work conducted up…
As I research and develop digital badges, I’m thoughtful about aspects of value, credibility, and “sincerity” of design in the badging infrastructure. Put simply, I believe that people will make judgments about the believability, credibility, and relevance of the digital badges based on elements of the metadata, the images used, and where the badge is hosted.…
Over the last two posts we’ve looked at reading and then writing in Medium. Now we’ll examine some advanced writing techniques. Next week we’ll look at publications, sharing your work on your own blogs, and syndicating to Medium. To get started, at this point you should have a Medium account, you should have started to follow…
This post is intended to provide an overview of information about digital badges and possibilities in teaching and learning. This post is a supplemental piece meant to accompany the column printed in the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. You can find out more about the column and subsequent interviews in coming weeks. What is…
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…
As we search and sift while reading online we’re confronted by an endless torrent of text, hypertext, and multimodal content. As technology progresses, this information source ebbs and flows, but for the most part we’re witnessing the evolution of what will become a steady stream of content that we use to read, write, and communicate.…
As we creep closer to the start of the Instructional Technology & Digital Media Literacy (IT&DML) program, I wanted to share more details from the planning and scaling up of the program. The purpose of the program is to provide hybrid professional development and a graduate educational experience for educators that culminate in digital portfolios…