Part of my job involves regularly giving a talk on a specific topic. This may be at a conference, a local workshop, or in class. These talks are often limited to the participants in attendance. I spend a lot of time building the presentation. Why should my ideas be limited to the people that decide…
You may have heard of ghosting someone. This is when, with zero warning, a friend avoids phone calls, social media, and avoids you in public. They do not provide any justification and subsequently ignoring any attempts you make to reach out or communicate. It’s definitely an odd behavior as individuals try to carve out a…
Okay I was gone for a minute but I’m back now. On August 1, I put out an update on my social feeds indicating that I was stepping away from these spaces for the month. Hey all, I’m walking away from my social feeds for the month of August. I have a feeling this upcoming…
While working as a graduate researcher at UConn, I was in middle school classrooms most of my day, helping teach online reading comprehension to adolescents. For those of you that work with adolescents, you know that there is a certain amount of “drama” associated with the lives of teens. One event in particular has me…
The intersections between learning, technology, and media are often the scene of tumult and change. These digital texts and tools provide groundbreaking advantages, and opportunities to information that cannot be underestimated. The Internet, video and music sharing sites, social media and mobile phones have quite literally changed our world forever. Sadly, this ubiquitous communications technology…
How well do you trust what you read online and in social networks? It is highly likely that the quality of digital texts and links that you obtain as you read search and sift through the internet has been slowly degrading. This is because without knowing it, something called the filter bubble is sifting…
This post details and shares items from the Survey of Literacy and Identity within Digital Environments (SLIDE) instrument. The SLIDE instrument was used in research about participant activities in the #WalkMyWorld Project and led to this research and publication on social scholarship of educators. The SLIDE was constructed to collect demographic information about participants. The SLIDE…
As detailed in an earlier post, I’ve had a lot to think and say about the recent news about the Facebook Mood Experiment that was conducted (and most likely continue). As a response, and satire of this I decided to create a game using Google Forms that would act as a satire of the recent…
TL;DR Version: This post shares my thoughts about the “Facebook Mood Experiment” and how this relates to online research and the IRB. Finally, I conclude with possible next steps for a free, safe, transparent Internet. Over the weekend, news of the Facebook “mood” experiment was revealed. The truth of the matter was that the results…
TL;DR Version: There are wealth of free digital texts and tools that can be used to create and curate your digital identity. More importantly, when developed with a digital learning hub, you can build up and control your own learning management system. In working with teachers in pre-service programs, professional development, and institutes, I’m…