I have a new publication to share with you. My research article exploring how online course community and personal community influence learner engagement has now been published in Educational Technology Research and Development, an AECT journal. This research was originally conducted as my dissertation study. My dissertation committee lovingly and patiently encouraged me to publish, […]
Remember equations with two variables? Somewhere in Algebra I your teacher said something like this, “We’re having so much fun finding x, why don’t we also add a y in there?” And your mind exploded. Oh math, why must you torture me? The truth is that the two-variable equation is a thing of beauty. The […]
For those of us in technology, the emergency online learning that happened during the pandemic was a tragedy. Students from all walks of life were thrust into online learning systems that were cobbled together from disparate systems and by instructors without preparation. Full-day Zoom and poorly designed online worksheets dominated. It was frustrating, but we […]
Today I came across an edition of Educational Leadership from February 2019 focused on “The Tech-Savvy School.” In some ways, exploring the issue is like looking a time capsule from pre-2020. The edition is filled with titles like “Creating a Shared Vision,” “New Realities,” and “Teaching Our Way to Digital Equity.” The article titled “In […]
This blog has always been a place to document what I’m learning about teaching in an online space. You’ll notice that my posts go all the way back to 2009. In this place of wrestling and “small margins,” the school year suddenly started. My own children are starting to learn in a virtual space, and […]
Over the last two months, teachers all over the world have gotten a crash course in teaching in a fully online environment. As I reflect back on the first time I taught online (circa 2008), I remember likening it to being a student teacher again. Everything seems overwhelming, everything is new, and every day brings […]
Exciting news! I’m going to be hosting a free webinar on April 8, 2020 at 2:30 pm MST on getting started with remote learning. You can expect practical, focused tips on how to get started and sustain engagement with K-12 students in an online environment. The webinar is sponsored by my employer, Rocky Mountain College […]
For too long educational technology has failed to live up to its potential in classrooms. Throwing technology at our educational problems, unfortunately, will never transform learning. By this time, we’ve proven it. It didn’t work with the Apple I and Oregon Trail and it still isn’t working with iPads and smartphones. However, all is not […]
Supporting teaching and learning through technology
I spent some time today looking through the archives of this blog. I wanted to understand how my thinking had changed since I first began writing about teaching and learning in 2009. I came across my philosophy of education from way back when I got my first online teaching job, and I was shocked to […]
