I was asked to post this week on copyright, and, honestly, it’s not my favorite subject. I honestly believe all information should always be at my fingertips. Always. If I want to know the capital of Peru so my kid can get her free ice cream at Baskin Robbins, then I google it on my [...]

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It’s funny because I have this blog that is specifically for the development of my multimodal English 101 course, and then I have my regular technology ed blog here. So things overlap all of the time, and this time the post went there but please do check it out.

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Tomorrow is my next meeting about English 101. Ugh. Tonight I was planning on working on reviewing this book we think we’ve chosen for the class, and I had these notes from my last session I planned on incorporating into the document I have shared with my instructor and grant liaison, but then I could [...]

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Today Shelley and I spent a couple hours fishing through theory, trying to build application and keeping the luddites in mind for our English 102 course build. We’ve spent almost two weeks searching for the perfect text book, but a lot of these reps don’t seem to understand “multimodal” or “Web 2.0″. They want to [...]

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Social Software Interaction
Picture Originally uploaded by ChrisL_AK

I came across this photo while reading Liz Davis’ technology education website, and it struck me that there’s this mutation of communication online; I wonder how this fits into the framework of my class. There’s this overlapping between forums, blogs, and wikis, and I guess my [...]

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Gabcast! CIS237: Web-Based Teaching & Learning II #1 - cis237: week 1
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In the Gabcast for this week a question arose about the platform for the course we’re building. Let me disclose that I wrote a grant for the course I am building, and I am co-developing it with a colleague. With that said, I prefer Google Apps as my platform (like this course), and not because [...]

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Nooccar’s Desktop
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My desktop is always cluttered like my workspace, and I typically have whatever I am currently work with all over the desktop. I love this picture of my 2 1/2 year old, Claire, so it’s there too. It’s almost like being naked by screencasting my desktop without editing it [...]

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My name is Devon Adams, and I currently teaching AP Language & Composition, American Literature, English 101 dual enrollment, Eng 101 online, Eng 102 hybrid, concurrent, and face2face here at Mesa Community College and at Basha High School. I’ve been interested in technology since 1992 when I would dial into local bulletin board systems in [...]

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