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: 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…
As part of the IT&DML program, we’re starting up a professional development activity to help faculty, staff, students and alumni collaboratively think through a text each summer. The read for this summer is “The Information: A history, a theory, a flood” by James Gleick. For more information on the text, please visit the reviews that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…