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The Word of the Day is "Communication"

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The word of the day is “C-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n”.  We think we know what it is, and sometimes we think we know how to do it. Communication can be even more challenging when working with partners.  I compiled a list of communication reminders (especially for me)  from the book, Harnessing Innovative Technology in Higher Education edited by […]

Organizing and Evaluating Professional Development Workshops

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Earlier this year we piloted EH@Home in-person workshops. Creating a model for organization and evaluation was a very important part of this project. Organizing each workshop involved a series of cyclic steps outlined below. From each workshop came feedback that was incorporated in future workshops. This enabled us to have near real-time improvement and help […]

The New Lingo for Educators

Friday, November 5th, 2010

We decided to create on-line learning for our audiences. What’s next? As I’m searching the web looking for “best practices”, I’m sensing that first we want to be clear about what we’re doing.  There are many terms flying around out there, and I decided to get some definitions to make distinctions.  Note that my chosen […]

Being a Gifted Speaker

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I found my way to Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog this morning and found it to be very interesting. I’m going a bit off topic, but we all want to empower and motivate audiences when we present (especially when we present about new technology). The Blue Skunk post begins with a great reference from “Being […]