I can rather clearly remember conversations with Jim Groom in the interview and the weeks leading up to it where I'd ask about what my job as an instructional technology specialist would entail. Officially I'd be working with faculty to integrate emergent technology into their course
Before you read anything that I might say, I'd like you to go read a wonderful post by my colleague and friend Ryan Brazell. http://ryanbrazell.net/sit-down-shut-up-and-listen-this-is-whats-wrong-with-edtech/ Wednesday was a very difficult day for a lot of people, many of which are not able to speak publicly
Whenever I hear the words "lecture capture" I immediately think of stale videos of someone talking in front of a chalkboard, picture-in-picture with a Powerpoint, about some mundane topic. It's just a term loaded with connotations that reflect negatively on the possibilities of the technology that
We currently use Canvas as our learning management system and today I was talking to Lisa Ames and she pointed out to me that a recent update to Canvas had affected the custom branding that Instructure had done to our install a few years ago. In particular some CSS modifications
It doesn't seem like the distant past in which the idea of building interactive content for the web seemed like a much larger feat to accomplish. Publishing content has long been a dead simple process of firing up a blog and writing. But the idea of interactive maps