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Improvements in the CURVE experience
As CURVE begins to gain "regulars" , "newbie" traffic, and large intellectual groups I continue to see the growth and resources that the CURVE space is able to provide for not just GSU students but the community. The visuals in the space are incredible and it is a...
More about Timelines and their Uses
Timelines can be useful in teaching in a variety of ways. The most obvious is having students create a timeline on a particular topic that can be represented chronologically or progressively. The choices the student makes of what to include on the timeline and what...
Where is the big picture?
I have been working as a SIF for about 2 months, I am excited about the projects that I am working on. Here is a status update regards what is happening to our main project and how things are shaping up. Project 1 Online Deliberation Mapping Tool Development This is...
Rhet/Comp, Durkheim, Hybrid Pedagogy, and Me
In the last 7 or so weeks as a SIF, I have learned more than I ever imagined I would. A few weeks ago, I decided to write an article featuring the SIF program. In a stroke of benevolence, Brennan gave me permission to spend some of my hours developing the article. So...
Following up with Nicole’s recent post
I'm writing this blog post as a follow up to Nicole's "Innovation and Education" post that she published on October 13. What I particularly liked about her approach to tackling the concept of innovation is that it's not certainly necessary to "reinvent the wheel" but...
Creativity is a Conversation
Photo credit: Sembazuru A reoccurring key concept reappeared again during last week's lectures: that creative work is a conversation between yourself and whatever it is you're creating. Very few of us can hear something or visualize something in our heads and have it...
Data Visualization in the Modern Browser
Hello all, got some good stuff to talk about this post. My ThreeJS stuff is hitting off the roof now with more and more projects coming in from a lot of different places. So much in fact I can't process it all. So I have decided to spearhead renewed energy into all...
Updates from the Hoccleve Archives
There has been a lot of activity over the Hoccleve Archives projects over the last few weeks, mostly relating to a series of computer files known as the HOCCLEX files. These files, which date from the 1980's, were originally developed by a team of researchers, led by...
Anatomy of Destruction
Innovative work often goes in unplanned direction. One moment you're working on a great idea... and the next you're moving in a completely different direction than you started out... or even intended. In certain situations this is more literal than others. The GSU...
Drone Flying
Hi Everyone, I bought a drone quadcopter last week. The one I bought was an Ares Ethos FPC. It comes with a camera that shoots in HD mounted on the bottom of it. I am pleased with it so far. I'm really happy I got the economic quadcopter first before I bought the...
Innovation and Education
Innovation, a word describing a new idea, device or process that is an original, something to bring society up to another level. However, when discussing innovation and education I do not think it has to be in terms of something new, something never been used or...
“Tell me, won’t ya tell me, won’t ya tell me, won’t you tell me…”
While I have been working diligently on finishing the first safety video and planning out the next installments, I wanted to shift the focus to another interesting project I have been working on - the Tools Wiki. The Tools Wiki is the brain child of Valerie and will...