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By Katt on Mar 28, 2008 in My dissertation, Research Endeavors | 0 Comments
I have said multiple times and to multiple people that I want to write my dissertation on the use of social media in education. The past few weeks may have changed all of that in a big way. Before I get to the core of this post, I want to take a few minutes and [...]
By Katt on Mar 17, 2008 in Hows and Whys, Pedagogy, technology | 1 Comment
The first year I taught, I initiated a concept that I called “Virtual Office Hours.” The concept was relatively simple. I provided my students with information for each of my online messengers, added each of them as friends, and set up regular hours. I kept about 3 hours a day for the first semester and [...]
By Katt on Mar 14, 2008 in Pedagogy, theapple.com | 2 Comments
We’ve all said it. “Technology is the wave of the future.” There’s no denying that. It’s actually the wave of the present. I know that every teacher in academe today has heard that the need to use technology in the classroom is imperative now. If we are going to engage our students in the class [...]
By Katt on Mar 11, 2008 in Hows and Whys, Pedagogy, Teaching the Ashley Treatment | 0 Comments
I was reading Will Richardson (of Webblogg-ed)’s post supporting Wikipedia in the classroom when one of my colleagues, a new teacher, asked me about how I used Wikipedia in my research. So, since I’ve vowed to focus as many of my post here on the hows and whys of technology in the classroom, I thought [...]
By Katt on Oct 22, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 2 Comments
Goodfellow, Robin: Online Literacies and Learning: Operational, Cultural and Critical Dimensions. Language and Education 18.5 (2004): 379-399.
In “Online Literacies and Learning,” Robin Goodfellow argues that online environments provide immense ways of improving the social literacies of todays students and examines a manner of research which explores the variation in relationships between teacher and student both [...]
