I had a very cool moment a few nights ago when I was sitting in my graduate course on learning theory. As a part of the course we’ve all been assigned a particular theorist and we’re asked at some point in the semester to give a short 15 minute presentation. The first round was Thursday and one of the theorists being presented was Dr. Stephen Brookfield. - Read More -
2 weeks ago DTLT got it’s own copy of Wowza Media Server and we loaded on our media server to start experimenting more with live video streaming. Of course the setup isn’t new to us, we had used Wowza for DTLT Today extensively, but that was with Amazon EC2 instances that had to be fired up on demand, which didn’t make it easy for spontaneous broadcasts and advanced customization. Now that we have our own install on our own hardware we can really start to explore and push some of the possibilities. I’ve wanted to revamp the idea of DS106TV ever since it began because I never felt like we had the holy grail of what I envisioned it to be. This weekend I got a little further towards that goal. - Read More -
How can I resist the siren call of the animated GIF when Michael Branson Smith tempts me with a Muppet GIF assignment? I cannot. I chose the opening frames from my favorite Muppet movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan. Special tribute to GNA‘s triumphant return to Fredericksburg less than 2 weeks from now! - Read More -
Every time one of these new “MOOCish” sites pops up I do my best to play around with the tool before being too hypercritical. Last year when AI Class was all the rage I signed up and managed to make it an entire week I think. The problem there of course was that learning about - Read More -
Another day, another MOOC fires up its engines and fills my Twitterstream. And Moocmooc is about as meta as it gets: a one week MOOC that will analyze the form itself. And interestingly they’re using Instructure Canvas as the delivery platform, which is the LMS that UMW adopted a year ago. It’s interesting to me - Read More -
My work with Makerbots (which I’ve done the majority of blogging over at 3D Printing @ UMW) this semester has been a catalyst for an approach to the liberal arts that in some ways I think is still being defined. The ideals of a Maker Culture have begun to infiltrate what we do at UMW - Read More -
