Some Rules of Thumb
My day job is faculty development at the Center for Teaching Excellence at VCU, but my doctorate is in Education Leadership, and with 22 years in the Navy, graduate hours in management beyond the...
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Yesterday I started an examination of Alan Webber’s Rules of Thumb.: 52 Truths For Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self (2009). As Webber noted, these amazing times require one to rethink,...
View ArticleStill More Rules of Thumb
Earlier this week, I posted the first two posts reviewing Alan Webber’s Rules of Thumb.: 52 Truths For Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self (2009). I got a nice note from Alan at his website:...
View ArticleThe Fourth and Last Set of Rules
In the past three posts, I have covered the first 39 “rules” from Alan Webber’s Rules of Thumb.: 52 Truths For Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self (2009). I found this book to be relevant...
View ArticleFaculty Development in An Open World
I just finished reading Curtis J. Bonk’s new book, The World is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. In the spirit of full disclosure, I will tell you that Wiley, the publisher,...
View ArticleWhat Walls Need Tearing Down?
Michael Bugeja’s opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reduce the Technology, Rescue Your Job,” struck a nerve today. He started by noting that for “most of this decade, professors...
View ArticleSocial Media Revolution
An advertisement…but an interesting one: So how are we in higher education adapting to this revolution? Is the status quo even possible? (…and thanks to Jill Baedke for passing this to me…)
View ArticleLearning Swarms?
Wired Magazine in the August issue has a cute article discussing the future that never happened. When I was growing up, I watched the Jetsons and Johnny Quest every week, but the cold reality is that...
View ArticleThe School of Me
I just finished reading my first ebook on my new NookColor: Nick Bilton‘s I Live in the Future and Here’s How It Works. It was an interesting experience, done primarily on the Nook, but thanks to the...
View ArticleRe-Imagination of Everything
Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, recently presented at Stanford University on web trends. Her presentation contains eighty-eight slides full of interesting...
View ArticleTwo Weeks, Three Books, and A New Role
In that short period between end of Spring semester, our Online Course Development Initiative, and the start of my summer teaching, I dove into some books: The first was assigned reading. The VCU...
View ArticleThe Metaphor of Sloths
Thinking Outside Box Back in 2014, one of my colleagues, Enoch Hale, posted the following blogging challenge: “I want to pose an open challenge: Post an out-of-the-box question about teaching and...
View ArticleThe Pause Button
The Pause Button… If you have used technology as long as I have, you really do not think about the symbology associated with certain actions. We all have grown accustomed to the two vertical bars that...
View ArticleOnly Been One Decade
I loved the second chapter of Tom Friedman’s new book, Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. The chapter title is “What the Hell Happened in 2007?”...
View ArticleBalancing Optimism with Pragmatism
Audrey Watters this week posted a talk she gave at Coventry University earlier this year entitled “The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren’t ‘Tech’).” Good talk by someone I like to follow in my feeds…primarily...
View ArticleGot My Attention
Over the weekend, I continued reading Tom Friedman’s new book, Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. I have to admit that the second section on...
View ArticleValue Added versus Liability Sponge
Someone who always gets me thinking is danah boyd. Her post “Toward Accountability: Data, Fairness, Algorithms, Consequences” is the latest to prod my brain! Her post raises the issue of how data...
View ArticleThe Next Ten Years
This past week in EDU6323, we explored blogging as an educational process. My students shared their favorite blogs from Teach 100 and reflected on the fit of blogging in this hyperactive Snapchat...
View ArticleOpportunities in The Future of Work
Yesterday, Goldie Blumenstyk of the Chronicle of Higher Education shared a link in her weekly newsletter to The Future of Work in America, a report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). The future...
View ArticleWho Am I?
I have resisted the “20-20” meme that seems prevalent…though I did like Seth Godin’s take in “Seeing Clearly in 2020“: For most of us, 2020 is going to be a turning point. Because it’s another chance...
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