New Media Faculty Development Seminar

It has taken me these first weeks of the New Media Seminar to begin to grasp what the purpose of this seminar is. I originally confessed that I wanted to explore technologies that enrich my classes as well as think more “meta” about this technology. …

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As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m currently participating in a New Media Faculty Seminar at Baylor, under the guidance of Gardner Campbell, who runs the Academy of Teaching and Learning here.This week, our reading from the New Media Reader was “A Resea…

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First, my thanks to everyone who responded to my blog post below. Some responses were comments, some were emails. I really do appreciate the feedback, support, questions, and concerns.
Second, a few clarifications. The “wall” I talk about in my prior post is not a person or even (in this case) a response from anyone. Rather, [...]

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Okay, so in the last couple of weeks, my techno-abilities have grown to include being a blogger, having a Facebook, twitter and flickr account, being an internet “tagger” (wasn’t even aware of the term before and still not sure I really get the …

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Okay, so in the last couple of weeks, my techno-abilities have grown to include being a blogger, having a Facebook, twitter and flickr account, being an internet “tagger” (wasn’t even aware of the term before and still not sure I really get the …

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I feel like I have been gone from my blog for some time. In actuality, only a week has gone by. Perhaps this is the beginning of me getting more consumed by the things of this online world…ok, enough of that! I digress. Today I am amazed by what …

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When I was a growing up and well into my teen-age years, calling Eastport, Maine meant going through the operator:  “Oh, it’s little Gabrielle!” she would announce to the room.  “How are you deah?” she would ask in that wonderful Down East …

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Even though I am not really enjoying the New Media Seminar, I am finding that engaging the questions it raises is stimulating a ton of great thoughts about education and technology and what I really think about the role of the educator in the world. So…

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I keep running into the same wall from different directions. It hardly seems fair, but there it is.
These information and communication technologies really do amount to the difference in degree that’s also a difference in kind. There’s just no way to pretend they aren’t disruptive, a hassle, a pain, and perhaps even worse. ICT may [...]

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I am now entering my second full-fledged week of my New Media course, and I have found the course to be both interesting and challenging. Oddly enough, the challenge for me lies in the amount of monitoring I feel by participating in this course. Fir…

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