Professional Foundations: Collaborating, Researching, and Networking The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Busy Women... This week I planned to explore interactive OERs (curricula, simulations, video lectures, etc) to add to my knowledge and understanding of these resources. This is a lofty goal for someone simply working full-time...and a bit too ambitions for someone currently interviewing, completing...

Professional Foundations: Collaborating, Researching, and Networking Motivational Theory Based upon two options PERCEPTUAL AROUSAL: uses surprise or uncertainly to gain interest. ; or INQUIRY AROUSAL: stimulates curiosity by posing challenging questions or problems to be solved PAST USAGE: In Social Work 505, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, the professor found an activity wherein...

Professional Foundations: Collaborating, Researching, and Networking The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Busy Women... This week I planned to explore interactive OERs (curricula, simulations, video lectures, etc) to add to my knowledge and understanding of these resources. This is a lofty goal for someone simply working full-time...and a bit too ambitions for someone currently interviewing, completing...

Coming from an island nation in the developing world, I have vivid memories of learning the alphabet, multiplication tables, and phonetic pronunciation in a schoolroom full of children—all speaking in unison. Rote repetition and strict adherence grammatical rules were the order of the day. Although it doesn’t seem like it should have, this lead to my early reading and comprehension (by age five I...

In assisting a colleague in preparing her portfolio I have searched the web high and low for excellent examples to assist in pages, headings, and possibly even layout. Finding diverse, responsive examples is not that easy. I believe this is because many ID professionals have an extensive education in Bloom's’ taxonomy, rubrics, effective course development, summative and formative assessments,...

I have a potential freelance design client who wants her small charter school website to be everything to all current existing, and future potential audiences. It’s always eye-opening to have these preliminary conversations about the goal of the site. She has every confidence that the designer—whoever she chooses to complete this project—will be able to translate the mission, vision, and voice...

I designed and sent out my first corporate e-newsletter back in 2010. The technology and the MagnetMail CMS were both fairly new to me. I was professionally familiar with the concept, but had never before had my designs virtually blasted into the inbox of over 10,000 professionals in one stroke of a keyboard! Years earlier, I was charged with layout of the quarterly (print) newsletter of the American...

In moving to promote the multimedia resources, I planned a brief, 2-hour, open house event to showcase the newest resources available to the community. This was accomplished with assistance from the team in the IT department. First, as always, I started with the concept of technology and multimedia. The ideas were flying fast and loose until I reigned them in…simplicity is key to getting...

Complaining about work on social media is like farting in an elevator. You can't escape the fact that you did it. One morning I switched on my computer to find this series of status updates at the top of my Facebook (Fb) Newsfeed: My boss calls me while I shower, she calls while I brush my teeth and pack my lunch, then I am trying to drive and she calls me again, so I pull over and try to...

In my new role as instructional yadda yadda, I have had the opportunity to oversee the final touches on the university's recording studio...and in doing that, to build relationships!  To that end, my team and another on campus will be hosting a multimedia open house later this semester--on the cheap. We're working together to plan the events, activities, and promotions. For me it's imperative...

It’s been 6 months, and time to revisit the communications plan in the Office of Academic Technology Services (ATS). The team has been fighting an uphill battle (one with forward progress, at least) to grow their client base, and educate constituents about our proficiencies, resources, and services. My brain has been racked for the past couple weeks, in anticipation of today’s team meeting: I’d...

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