Low Tech Simplicity and it works.

The problem. How do I let students know I am in the office even if I am not sitting in my office? I could use an email, twitter, facebook but then I am faced with the problem a student is not tuned into the tech messaging network. For under $5 I have come up with [...]

Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

Content Curator New Job Title

I don’t know how often you read Robin Good but there is no question if you are into tech applications and dare I say New Media, even convergence/divergence, this is a must read blog. Yes we need more local coverage of ideas and issues, maybe that means we need more journalists. But I dare say [...]

Anatomy of My Best Class Ever!

Today I had my best teaching experience ever! The class in question is COM311  a Zayed Media Lab practicum at Zayed University. The class is worth 1 credit and asks students to bring together their cumulative experience to produce a project that is well outside their comfort zone. This time around my students are engaging in [...]

Bring on the mobile media!

I have been doing some experimentation with mobile media and breaking my own rules! The main rule I live by with mobile media is keep it short! I have been recording my classes at the university and formatting them for an iPhone! The lectures are about 60 minutes and they actually seem to have a [...]

Ownership = Success

The question on every teachers mind has to be how do I package what I teach to get students engaged? Good question and one that seldom, if ever, gets acted upon! Once children leave primary school less and less attention is given to the engagement of the student and more and more is attention is [...]