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My class visits an augmented reality exhibit

After my ed tech seminar’s week on virtual/augmented/mixed reality, the students came up with a plan for a field trip.  Just across town from our Georgetown campus, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History had added an augmented reality dimension to … Continue reading

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A cruel pedagogical exercise I inflicted upon my students

Several weeks ago I conducted a cruel pedagogical experiment. The class topic that day was mobile technology.  I wanted to get students thinking about how mobility allows us to shake up learning spaces, but didn’t want to convey the idea … Continue reading

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My new class is about educational technology

I will be teaching a new class starting in about a week. It’s a graduate seminar on educational technology for Georgetown University’s master’s program in learning, teaching, and design, hosted by the CNDLS program, the same fine group that hosted … Continue reading

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My class, two weeks in

Teaching for the first time in sixteen years continues to be exhilarating and fascinating. LDES-703 is an interesting experiment, a hybrid on several levels.  Our live sessions take place one night each week.  For those most of the students gather … Continue reading

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Heading into my new class

This week I started teaching my first class since 2002.  I’d like to blog about the experience. In this post I’ll describe what I hope to achieve with the class: how I’m organizing it and what I expect.  I’ll add … Continue reading

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I return to teaching

It might be early July this week, but I’m thinking… back to school!  That’s because this fall I will teach a university class for the first time in a while. The class concerns the future of higher education.  Its full … Continue reading

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