Semester Wrap-Up

05.16.10 Posted in Personal, conferences, research by Shelley

So much has happened in the past few weeks. But between school, and work, and my kids, I just haven’t found the time to catch my blog up. I spent much of the year until now working on my Action Research work, which you can read about under that tab. I have another action research [...]

My Kindle Commitment

01.07.10 Posted in Reading, kindle, research by Shelley

I love my Kindle, yet I have been reluctant to use it much for academic use (beyond a pdf review or two) primarily because I like to write notes in the margins of my books and then flip through them later for review. But I am committed to my Kindle, so I am going to [...]

Henry Jenkins and Daniel Hickey

03.14.09 Posted in Social Media, education, research by Shelley

Recently, Henry Jenkins posted a white paper in a series of 8 blog posts discussing the importance of spreadability in media. In response to these posts, Daniel Hickey is evaluating the idea of spreadability with current educational practices in his own series of blog posts This is really exciting to me; these are my two [...]

Taxing Education

02.23.09 Posted in elearning by Shelley

An article this morning on Inside Higher Ed discusses a new policy suggested by New York that would require tax be paid on a particular distance education course. Their contention is that there is limited instructor-student interaction, and therefore the product is actually more like a piece of software than an educational experience, even though [...]

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