Posted in Teaching on Oct 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
Today, I will be recording a podcast of my digital storytelling workshop experience and what I learned from it with colleagues Jeff Nugent and Bud Deihl in the Center for Teaching Excellence at VCU. My story, A Teacher’s Journey, was created during a five-week workshop with eight other faculty members. Sometime during those five Fridays [...]
Posted in Teaching on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
For the past two weeks, I’ve had the special experience of being involved in a Digital Storytelling Workshop sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence at VCU. Nine faculty members have committed five Friday afternoons to learning the art and craft of storytelling using digital media. I first became intrigued by this possibility after attending [...]
Posted in Teaching on Sep 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Dear Reader: This post was first written in June, 2009, then put on “hold” while I finished other projects. I was searching for a way to explain what educators in the M.Ed. in Adult Learning program learn, and how they say they have changed. I have, at last, simply decided to use their words. So, [...]
Posted in Teaching on Jun 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
When you are on a sailing trip, as I have been for the past week or so, you learn to do things differently out of necessity … space onboard a 33-foot sailboat simply doesn’t permit the usual manner for doing simple everyday things.
For example, how I go about cooking (if you can call it that) [...]
Posted in Teaching on Feb 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
For those of you in the Adult Learning program who were not able to join us on February 18, you missed a great learning day — a fun travel adventure on Amtrak from Richmond to Crystal City, VA for the Academy of HRD pre-conference workshop on action learning with Dr. Michael Marquardt. My guess is that [...]
