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#Print2Pixel Unconference, University of New Haven
I just had a terrific conversation with teachers at the second annual #Print2Pixel conference, hosted by Ian O’Byrne and his colleagues at the University of New Haven. During our session, we discussed a few key ideas: 1) Maker spaces in libraries (an awesome idea!) 2) Maker activities in science classrooms that apprentice students into professional…
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Repost from Reading Today: The Maker Movement and English Language Arts
For the last couple of years, I have been a member of the International Reading Association’s Technology Integration in Literacy Education Special Interest Group, aka the TILE-SIG. As a community, we blog about ideas connected to literacies, technology, teaching and learning. I was so excited about the Maker Faire we [the Master’s in Educational Technology…
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Sew Green: Sew White at #MACUL14
The Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) conference kicks off tomorrow and my colleague Leigh Graves Wolf and I will be hosting a mini maker faire at our Master’s in Educational Technology booth in the MACUL exhibition hall (booth #124). If you’re interested in learning how to create a felt badge that lights…
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How to Make a Paper Circuit from your MACUL Name Badge
This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (March 12-14) I will be at the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. Unlike most conferences where I present sessions, at this conference, I will be at the Master’s in Educational Technology Booth (124) in the Exhibition Hall hosting a Mini Maker Faire…
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The Bridge Webinar Series: Games and Learning
This week, I had the pleasure to moderate a conversation among colleagues on the topic of Digital Games and Learning. Colin Gallagher, an alumnus of the Master’s of Educational Technology Program and Instructor in our Graduate Certificate in Educational Technology Program, Mete Akcaoglu, Assistant Professor at Western Virginia University and PhD Alumnus of the Educational…
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Queen’s University: Rosa Bruno-Jofré Workshop Presentations
Leigh Graves Wolf and I will be presenting our take on “Conquering the Online Presentation.” at the Rosa Bruno-Jofré Symposium in Education at Queens University. The slides from our presentation are linked below. One external source we referenced is the fantastic viral infographic from Lemonly explaining “How Not to Look Ugly on a Webcam” Here…
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Making Connections and Presentations
I’ve been away from my blog for what seems like an eternity — over a month — but it has been rather busy chez nous. On December 2, I successfully defended my dissertation [insert the feelings you may have felt on that day yourself, or the feelings you expect you would feel about that kind…
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Association of Independent School Librarians Summer Institute
It’s not even Christmas yet, but the executive committee of the Association of Independent School Librarians, as one might expect, take event planning and the organization of details to unprecedented heights. It’s November 14 and they’ve already launched their website advertising their Summer Institute. I’m pretty excited about this because (a) I’ll be joining them…
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Michigan Council of Social Studies Conference
My colleague, Paul Morsink, and I are teaming up today to talk to Social Studies teachers in Michigan about online inquiry, the construction of meaning across multiple, multimodal Internet texts, and the use of web-based tools that could support metacognition and (we hope) development of online inquiry processes. We feel like our talk could be…
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Online, is stopping or going more important?
I’ve got another dissertation insight to share. As I’ve analyzed the thoughts that treatment participants shared in response to the questions and scaffolding that I provided during their “practice sessions,” I’m seeing that my questions, more than anything, provided space for them to stop, think and reflect. Whether this is a “good” thing in terms…