http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:52:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What is it about? We are working on that. This time, it is about instructional technologists and if they serve their faculty well by looking out into the future, experimenting with the newest tools. On board this time - Jim Groom, Michael Willits, and Jerry Slezak. http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2008/07/15/what-is-it-its-a-podcast/ I'm assembling information for the final version of the printed program for Faculty Academy 2006, and I'm astonished by the variety, energy, and creativity I see here. Just as I learn something most thoroughly when I teach it, I see the individual program events with new clarity and detail as ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/05/14/final-approach/ The countdown to Faculty Academy 4.0 is ticking along. Recognizing that we wanted to document, document, document this event, we took a page from Penn State's Teaching & Learning with Technology Symposium and set up our own conference blog. (Thanks to D'Arcy Norman for pointing out the Penn State example ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/05/10/tricking-out-wordpress/ I've listened to a bunch of great stories lately, about a bunch of great people. Muhammad Ali helping some college students on the side of the road. Bobby Kennedy being a politician who can relate to the common man, despite being a spoiled rich kid. And the pain and suffering ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/05/03/great-lives-great-stories-acceptable-technology/ As THEA435 wraps up (we'll be gathering this evening to watch students' final projects), I thought I'd take a moment to post this image. This is a scan of a scrap of paper on which I took notes during a meeting with Andy and Jerry last fall. The notes grew out ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/05/02/a-scrap/ poster Originally uploaded by rushaw. Promotion of the 2006 Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies continues with the establishment of the official Flickr tag for the event. Use the tag facultyacademy2006 for all photos related to this year's Academy. As you'll see, the first entry ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/04/28/the-official-flickr-tag-of-faculty-academy/ Preparations for the 11th Annual Faculty Academy continue, and yesterday another milestone was reached when Jon Udell sent us the abstract for his keynote address. Although you can find it on the Faculty Academy website, it's worth quoting here in full, as a reminder of how vital Jon's work is ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/04/25/jon-udell-on-21st-century-literacy/ Last week, Jerry Slezak, Andy Rush, and I sat down with Gregg Stull to talk about the status of the Theatre 435 project. We recorded the interview, and a podcast of that conversation is attached. The audio isn't perfect (a cell phone interrupts at one point and the air-conditioning came on ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/04/20/a-conversation-with-gregg-stull/ DTLT will be hosting our 11th Annual Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology on May 16 and 17, 2006 in Combs Hall on the UMW campus in Fredericksburg, VA. Thus, the planning, arranging, thinking, longing, obsessing, anticipating and just plain work of preparing for the conference is in full swing. At this conference, ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/04/20/faculty-academy-2006-a-countdown-begins/ Dr. Craig Naylor from the Department of Music is the organizer of a small group of students called the Electronic Music Collective. These students create original electronic compositions using the Electronic Music Studio. Each year, the Collective does a concert where they play back the compositions they created that semester. ... http://smoothelephant.umwblogs.org/2006/03/28/electronic-music-and-connections/