A team of collaborators led by Alan Wolf, University of Wisconsin and Flora McMartin that included Glenda Morgan, Cathy Manduca, Joshua Morrill, and Ellen Iverson surveyed 4,678 faculty members from 115 two, four, and gradutate level colleges and universities during the Fall of 2005 to find out how they used or did not use digital […]

(L-R) GameCATS: Michael Eagle, Lane Harrison, Eve Powell
Eve Powell has loved computer gaming as long as she can remember, and she knew long ago that she wanted to learn computer game design in college. There weren’t many opportunities for game enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte (UNCC) when she arrived, so Powell […]

Tammy Sumner, Assistant Professor, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Colorado at Boulder presented a conceptual framework that guides the development of content-rich, adaptable, and adaptive learning environments powered by digital libraries along with concrete examples of this infrastructure, such as the Strand Map Service, a programmatic web service that can […]

John Willensky gave the keynote address on June 21 at JCDL 2007 while waving a sheaf of paper notes to emphasize his departure from Power Point presentation technology in the interest of communicating directly with the audience assembled in Vancouver. He referred to this style as, “An homage to openness.”
Willensky, a professor in the Department […]

I had the opportunity in late April to take part in a workshop for 22 educators, led by Bob Panoff, Director of NSDL’s Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) portal and Pathway project, developed by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Graciously hosted by Burroughs Wellcome Fund at their beautiful and beautifully situated offices […]

Posted for Robert Payo who is on the road at the 2007 EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2007.
So you’re stranded on a boat with multiple generations of learners: a baby boomer, a “gen x’er”, and a millenial “gen y’er”. The baby boomer looks for the manual to fix the boat while the the gen […]

NOTE: Audio from  a public dialogue between researchers and long time collaborators Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at Cornell University is now available.
audio [mp3]
I have to admit that the eight life-sized video projections around a dim room populated by clusters of two or three people at computers flying their […]

Dr. S. James Gates Jr.
I attended the 2007 Rober Karplus Lecture at NSTA, “Can String Theory be an Educational Force Multiplier,” as a mathphobe who tagged the necessary bases to get through college science and math while focusing on art and literature. I find lately, however, that the clean nature of computation particularly appeals to […]

During each day of big meetings like NSTA every person comes away with a different view of what’s going on. Here are a couple of notes from my day.
Brennan Sapp, Kyla Hawkin, Mary Louise Pozaric and Rosemary Brown from Northern Kentucky presented a CSI-type simulation that they were using in Dixie Heights High School classrooms […]

Interior of the old Union Station, downtown building reflections, St. Louis on a foggy morning and the Arch in springtime.
St. Louis is a city with deep connections to TUMS, A.G. Edwards, Cardinals baseball, and some might say grand architectural statements, not necessarily related or in that order. The National Science Teachers Association is holding […]