A bit about me ...

I am a Professor of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I am responsible for the design and development of the technology instruction taken by juniors and seniors in the College of Education. I have been teaching for over 40 years. In 1972 I became Dean of the College of Professional and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts/Boston and served in that capacity until 1979 when I was named Vice President of the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning. I came to "South" in 1988 to develop a program in multimedia.

This blog is an example for my students in EDM 310, the technology course all Education majors must take.

... and what this blog is about.
I have a class blog every semester. You can take a look at my Spring 2009 Class Blog if you wish. From there you can connect to the blog sites maintained by all my students and to previous EDM 310 blogs. In this exercise I am asking students to create another blog in which they discuss six or more "teaching tools" or teaching attitudes they intend to apply in their classrooms when they begin their professional career. I have done the same in this blog as an example for my students.

In this blog you will find a discussion, and sometimes examples or links to examples, of these Teaching Tools: Blogs, Google Presentations, Google Documents, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets, Picasa, and Podcasts.

Links to these examples can be found to your left, immediately under my picture.


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Reader/Writers or Listener/Watchers?

In 1995 I published an article predicting that books would be replaced by silver discs by 2010. How wrong I was. Books have been (or are rapidly being" replaced by "The Cloud." At a later date I will elaborate on this new "Strange Prediction." Here I would like to summarize my 1995 belief that a new world was emerging in which a "listening/watching" culture was replacing a "reading/writing" one. The number of readers, and time spent reading was decreasing rapidly then (and still is). And many were wring there hands over such a calamity. I felt that it was not reading/writing that was the concern, but whether the new generation f listeners/watchers could be moved from being consumers of the new media to producers/authors/directors of audio and video products. Podcasts are an excellent tool in that effort!
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