Category Archives: Education

When I attended the recent NMC conference in Cleveland, one of my goals was to blog the event better than I blogged Bb World '06. At Blackboard World, I wrote out my notes carefully for every session I attended. I … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, June 27th from noon-1pm ATS will be holding a Blogging in Education Breeze presentation. The presentation went very well. You can view an archive of the session here.

There was a group of 8 people who attended a pre-conference workshop to make games. For the first day they learned about game theory, the second day they worked on narratives, and on the third day they created games. This … Continue reading →

Arlene Krebs presented on how CSUMB was able to use wireless technology in projects that gave back to the community. Hewlett-Packard gave CSUMB two mobility grants, for $236K and $130K to purchase mobile equipment to be used across the curriculum. … Continue reading →

After some general introductions and thanks to the institutions sponsoring this year's conference, we started off with our keynote, which was given by Brenda Laurel of Sun Microsystems. Brenda is a “designer, researcher and writer” according to the program notes. … Continue reading →

ECAR has released a study, Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning, and while I think they use too many commas in their study title, the Key Findings and Roadmap provide good overviews of the study. Among … Continue reading →

Blackboard's Application Pack 3 for Blackboard 6 has several new features that might make our faculty happy. Some of those new question types might resolve wishes that our faculty discussed in this week's PETE lunch. Con Beausang was wishing for … Continue reading →

It's the first day of classes at Richmond. This blog and our new social software server aren't yet in production, but I thought I'd take a moment to say hello. Our new blog is blojsom, a Java-based version of bloxsom. … Continue reading →