by Christina Sabo | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured, Glossary
What Are They? The MacArthur Foundation defines digital badges as: “an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. Badges are designed to make visible and validate learning in both formal and informal settings and hold the potential...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 4, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Have you ever considered using Twitter and Weebly in the classroom but aren’t sure how to do it? Have questions about how these technologies can help you engage students? Education professor April Zawlocki shares how she uses both Twitter and Weebly in the...
by henningsent | Aug 17, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
In July, two COD writing students were featured on Wikipedia’s Education blog for work they had done in my summer composition classroom. One of those students, a Navy veteran and self-described technophobe, created a Wikipedia article — from scratch — on...
by zawlockia | Aug 14, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Here’s a scary thought: 24 percent of teens reported being online “almost all of the time” (Hawkins, 2015, p. 43). What’s even scarier: these are the students that are going to be sitting in your classes, not only today, but for many more years to come! So...
by boonec | Aug 11, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Being a teacher is a lot like being an artist: it takes a good deal of both hubris and humility. One must know something others ought to know and the hubris to profess it (hence the penultimate title). But a teacher must also have the humility to remain a student in...
