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PR Pubs Goes Online!

I’m back in the saddle with teaching PR Pubs at the Gaylord College. This semester is extra special because I’ve launched, for the first time in the college’s history, an online section of PR Pubs. The...

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Unleashing the Wisdom Wall

I’ve spent the last couple of days gearing up for the first ever summer version of the PR Pubs which is slated to start on June 29th. At et4online this year I attended a session titled How and Why to...

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Power of Connections

I mentioned in my last post how fast Summer ’15 has flown by due to several obligations. One obligation, which I unfortunately didn’t get to lend enough of my time, was contributing to the “Power of...

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Gaylord College Technology Teach-In

Back in March, I wrote about the speaking at the Price College of Business Technology Teach-In. My fearless leader, Mark Morvant had the great idea of bringing this conversation to the Gaylord College...

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Toward a Polaroid Pedagogy

A few weeks ago, Matt Crosslin reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in doing a Google Hangout for #HumanMOOC focused around the Community of Inquiry notion of cognitive presence. I was...

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Openness without penalty

Note: On Monday, September 26, 2016, I gave a talk at Middlebury College. Below is the working transcript I wrote for the talk, though I did not actually read it. The talk can be viewed online. Today...

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Testing out a new grade scheme

This semester, I tested out a new grading scheme for my face-to-face version of PR Publications. I’ve taught the class 10+ different times over the past few years, and while all of them have been...

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Student Media and Domains

I want to tell a quick story as an example to show how we are starting to see how investing in a simple project like Domain of One’s Own is creating a better web student ran web outside of the project...

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I received a grant to adopt an open textbook!

I was informed earlier this week that I was one of 13 faculty who were awarded the Alternative Textbook Grant that is provided by OU Libraries. Very cool! From the news release: University Libraries...

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Teaching in Arezzo, Italy

My biggest regret as an undergrad is that I never studied abroad. Now armed with a steady job and a family, I realize how improbable it is to simply pick up and temporarily spend a significant length...

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The Remote Instruction Car Chase

It’s hard to believe but it’s already been a month since I published a blog post about OU’s Teach Anywhere site going live. I’ve said this in a half a dozen Zoom meetings, but the past five weeks have...

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Assignment Bank “Builds”

I’m working on a new course for the fall called Ad Copy and Layout. It will be very similar to PR Publications but, of course, focused towards advertising. So, in a sense, it’s sort of like I’m getting...

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Fresh Graffiti on the Wisdom Wall

I’ve previously written about my love of the “wisdom wall,” a technique I picked up from the good folks at CSU Channel Islands. Basically, you have students write advice to the next semester of...

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A Major Award: Teacher of the Year

So here we are. Two days before the end of 2020. Needless to say 2020 through a wrench into–well, itself–and that has meant I’ve spent less time blogging in order to focus elsewhere. The goal wasn’t to...

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