I’m afraid someone may come along and pinch me, to wake me up from this awesome dream. As Bethany Nowviskie has already announced, I’m going be a visiting scholar for Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia for the Fall semester. To say that I’m honored would be an understatement. The work that comes out [...]
Academic Technology Goals for Higher Education
Jeff McClurken’s recent post, “Writing a Strategic Plan for Academic Technologies and Libraries,” asks a really great question: If given the task of writing a strategic plan for a small institution, what would your top academic technology goals be? After teaching several undergraduate courses, and while currently teaching a graduate course, I’ve thought about my own goals at a classroom-level, and I think these goals could be applied to a broader strategic plan for a university.
Teaching with Blogs
Last Friday, Mills Kelly gave a wonderful presentation on his use of weblogs in his history courses in a forum organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence at GMU. If you ever get a chance to listen to Mills talk about teaching, drop whatever you’re doing and go listen. Though they in no way do justice to Mills’s presentation, here are a few notes I took.