This week’s topic is the epitome of a cool tool. I’m talking other side of the pillow and cool kids’ table cool. This week’s tool is Zaption. If you haven’t heard of Zaption that’s okay. It’s still a relatively…
This week’s topic is the epitome of a cool tool. I’m talking other side of the pillow and cool kids’ table cool. This week’s tool is Zaption. If you haven’t heard of Zaption that’s okay. It’s still a relatively…
Recently, I was reading some literature on gamification and came across an interesting idea: Namely, that even if we create a gamified lesson or course we can’t force students to play and enjoy the end product as a game. Students…
One of the first things that occurred when I became an online student, and later taught in an online environment, is that I initially began thinking about the online classroom as a ‘sort of’ simulation of the face-to-face classroom. I…
Dig, if you will, the picture of an online public health professor checking out Zaption analytics. Or, let’s consider a distance learning accounting student who leaves a fantastic instructor review on one of the many online professor rating services. What…
Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language. Multimodality provides complex fine grained analysis to get at the details of texts and interactions in which meaning is understood as being realized in…
“Writing Effective Research and Technical Reports” was my first project with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Working with Pam and Linda I updated their website and developed an eBook. The purpose of both is to help students produce…