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 Dec 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
It hardly seems possible that we’ve reached the end of the semester, but papers are graded and the academic term has come to an end. As a final assignment, I asked our master’s degree students to take stock of the distance they’ve traveled in Edublogs this semester by reviewing the posts they’ve written. Now’s the time for a [...]
Posted in Teaching on Oct 19th, 2008 4 Comments »
Bloggers in the Adult Learning Program, you are to be admired! We’re only halfway through Fall semester in using blogs for reflective practice and my eyes have been opened to what you are learning in ways that I never imagined before — thank you for making your thinking visible … or as Buddy so aptly [...]
Posted in Teaching on Sep 6th, 2008 7 Comments »
Lately, I’ve been teaching in the dark a lot. And I don’t mean the hours that my classes are offered, although I do have some that don’t begin until 7 pm. I’m talking about the classroom experience, the actual physical experience of being in a thirty-or-forty year old building never intended for LCD projectors [...]
Posted in Teaching on Jun 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” J. Rohn
HELLO WORLD!
Welcome to my blog, Coming About: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. “Coming about” is a sailing term for taking a new tack by adjusting the sails to catch the [...]
