2009 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference in Charleston–March 5

Thursday was my second day at the the 2009 SITE conference.  I attended the last part of Lisa Hervey’s presentation, “Lost and Found in Translation: A TPCK View of Mid-Career Teacher Beliefs and Practice.”  I regretted arriving late!  Hervey’s study seemed to be a more qualitative approach to examining Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge.  My colleagues [...]

2009 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference in Charleston–March 4

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I ended up attending the 2009 SITE conference in Charleston almost on a whim.  I didn’t propose a presentation, but my good friend Andrea did:  “Online Social Networking Used to Enhance Face-to-Face and Online Pre-Service Teachers Education”.  The abstract states,
“In this presentation we will share our experiences with teaching a technology course for [...]

Educational blogging

The class I’m taking on New Media, Social Media and Learning asked me to “do some digging around in Google, Yahoo, or [my] search engine of choice and find an interesting article about educational uses of blogs”, to post about “why [I] found the article [I] linked to particularly interesting” and to “extend or improve [...]

My personal philosophy of teaching

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As part of a study I was conducting, I recently had the opportunity to ask a lot of people “What is your personal philosophy of teaching?” As I watched my interview subjects struggle to articulate their thoughts on teaching, I realized that I’d never articulated a coherent statement of my own philosophy [...]