New Media Faculty Development Seminar

Some thoughts… Concerning our reading for this week – “Personal Dynamic Media” by Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg – I think the pithiest comment was found in the introduction. Seymour Papert, from “User Interface: A Personal View”: “The ability to ‘read’ a medium means you can access materials and tools generated by others. The ability [...]

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Catching up… Attended EDUCAUSE Southwest in Austin, Feb. 17-19 Presentation James Paul Gee Working at the edge of your “regime of competence” Lipdub EDUCAUSE Southwest, Austin, Feb. 17-19 I had the opportunity to attend the annual EDUCAUSE Southwest conference in Austin, Feb. 17-19, along with a number of other Baylor folks. EDUCAUSE is the leading [...]

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I read Anne-Marie’s comments about her scepticism as regards new media in education. I thought her comparison to televsion was pertinent since there were all kind of comments when it came along about how much good it would do for education. We know that American Idiol ain’t education. Still, I would note a big difference. [...]

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Enjoyed a great meeting of Baylor folks who attended the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative annual meeting in January in Austin. More or less at the spur of the moment, we were able to pull together a great representation of the Baylor ELI team – Electronic Library faculty and staff, Academy for Teaching and Learning director and [...]

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I watched the Frontline PBS broadcast called “Digital Nation.”  It was an interesting look at both what is being gained and what is being lost with our increasing use of digital devices.  I was quite interested in the virtual reality games that some people have gotten deeply involved with though I doubt I will be [...]

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Welcome to Personal Learning Environments. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
This is all very new to me.

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Here’s my shot at my first post for the New Media faculty development seminar, being held Spring 2010. Working on a topic, I decided to muse about the Apple iPad announced yesterday (Wed, 1/27/10). What does the iPad mean? What does it mean to the general public? What does it mean for educators? What does [...]

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This is our motherblog. Here we’ll aggregate most of our seminar online activity.

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This blog is intended to provide information about the renovation of the Scholar’s Room, Secret Storeroom, and public areas on the Garden Level of Moody Library.
Architect’s groundplan:

Here’s a conceptual rendering:

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This is my first post.

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