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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Odawara City Survival Guide
I am trying to sift through tons of paper and electronic documents, cleaning an simplifying. Lots of nostalgia stirred up by that, especially when finding things like this guide I wrote for foreign teachers in Odawara in 1994. The writing is terrible, and the remarks are far more snide than I remember being, but it’s [...]
Brand Tags
Adam Pacio pointed me toward a fascinating site called Brand Tags. It presents the visitor with a logo, and asks for the first word that comes to mind. This kind of word association allows for a kind of collective cognitive picture of a brand name, and one that is honest: perhaps too honest. The Nike [...]
[Fairfield] Blogging the Curriculum
Here is the presentation I’ll be giving in the morning. Yes, I’m still playing with the “screencast-as-slides” approach: ooh, distracting motion! Update: And here is a short outline of tips I handed around: phases.
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[Fairfield] Afternoon sessions
In the afternoon sessions, we had four presentations (with discussions). You want me to teach what? In the first of these, Joan van Hise and Dawn Massey addressed the question of what to do when you are faced with teaching a course with content or delivery that is unfamiliar. They brought Smarties and Dum-dums to [...]
[Fairfield] Thursday Morning Sessions
I’m up at Fairfield University for their annual conference on teaching. Time permitting, I’ll try to blog the sessions. The day began with a keynote from Alison Morrison-Shetlar, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida. I’ll admit to being a bit cynical about overarching advice on teaching, but I think she [...]
Online MS in Interactive Communication
In the fall, QU launches our 100% online master’s program in interactive communication. It’s a really cool program for those who are interested in making the shift to online media production–especially management and social media. The courses are taken one at a time at an accelerated pace, and the degree can be finished in two [...]
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