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TV For Sale
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TV has been spoken for! Television Brand: Vizio Model: E321VL (info: https://support.vizio.com/s/article/E321VL-Model-Information?language=en_US) Size: 32″ class This is a pretty basic Vizio television. 1080p, 2 HDMI inputs plus several legacy (RCA, VGA) inputs. No smart software installed. If you’re looking for a second TV or just something simple, this could work for you. Remote control…
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COVID and Teaching and Fear
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You might think by the title of this blog that I’m going to state just how afraid I am of potentially teaching in Fall 2020 with students in the classroom. You’d be wrong. I’m not going to say I’m too afraid to teach or do my job because no matter what, I’m at risk…
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Tech Struggles
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This weekend, I gave up my Samsung Galaxy S7 for a shiny new iPhone XR. Ok, the XR isn’t the newest model, but the price was right and with my oldest kid now getting a phone, going the iPhone route was the easiest. My S7 was starting to get a bit old – the…
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Like Work/Life Boundaries in Teaching? Don’t Give Your Students Your Real Cell Phone Number!
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(Note: this was inspired by a mass email I received touting a service that I actually do use. I’m not being paid anything for this, but it does open up a bigger conversation about where to draw lines in the technology realm.) When I was teaching online, I had several students ask me if…
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Take Responsibility for Your Grading Delays
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So far this Fall, I’ve been pretty good at keeping my grades up-to-date. However, after the last major project my students turned in, I’ve fallen behind. Look, I know this happens. We want to give fast feedback to our students, but sometimes life gets in the way. No matter what though, students depend on…
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Can I Get a Real Collaboration Tool Over Here?
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You want to ruin your students’ day? Tell them they have a group project as part of your class. Yes, the dreaded group project. Where a student puts their grade in the hands of others. You know the joke… When I die, I want my group members to be my pallbearers, so they can let me down one more time. The perceived problem with group projects is that students have to work together outside of…
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Don’t Get Impressed by the New Shiny
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There’s a lot of glitz in technology. When something new comes along, if it does something really cool that nothing else does, there’s something in your favor. Easy to use app? Awesome. Is it free*? There’s another plus. Are all the cool kids using it? OH MAN SIGN ME UP!! But to revisit the…
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Considering Course Redesign…
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The institution where I work and teach is in the middle of an LMS review as I write this (mid-December 2018), and as I prepare to teach my Science Writing and Presentation class this Spring, as I prep my class in Blackboard I’ve had a few things running through my mind: If we’re possibly…
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Good Old Fashioned Presentation Technology
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So in addition to working full-time as an educational technologist, I also teach a writing and presentation course in our School of Communications. Now it’s all fine and good to work with students on their verbal communications (“Don’t say “like” again, you’ve uttered that word 10 times in the last 30 seconds. Come up…
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No, You Can’t Have My Slide Decks…Not Yours.
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Every so often I’ve read or heard about students taking instructor material and posting that material onto third-party sites. Now, these sites (which shall not be named) ostensibly claim to be there to help students, but at least on one site the more documents you upload, the more material you can access. So, being…