Teaching with Technology

Based on my personal experience as a student of English as a second language (ESL), I would say that technology was not very helpful in my studying.  Some cassette tapes, CDs, and some English learning software such as Rosetta Stone were used in my English classes in high school and college.  These materials were viewed […]

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I’m grappling for a suitable metaphor to describe my reflections upon self after reading this article about Second Life and other virtual worlds from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Rip Van Winkle, climbing out from under rocks and Plato’s cave are all candidates. The article provides an interesting overview of some virtual classroom systems and […]

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Article from: International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning http://itdl.org/Journal/Apr_05/article03.htm Group development theories were analyzed to enhance the development of stronger teacher-learner and learner-learner collaboration in virtual educational communities. Collaboration is a form of engagement that is an important element of learning. Students interaction and engagement via online dialogue is the collaborative exercise that […]

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Lynn Barnsback I saw a teen use white out today on a receipt- he said it was a great product but can’t believe what we used to do with it. (“How hard was it to do a paper back then?”) The orthodontist uses a date book for appointments. My 80 year old aunt in Arizona […]

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The Design and Execution of Marketing Plans in Second Life By Tracy Tuten East Carolina University  Marketing Education Review, Volume 19 Number 1  BLOG: Lynn Barnsback  This article demonstrates a meaningful way to bring technology to the corner stone of the   Principles of Marketing course the Marketing Plan Project. This project is based on the […]

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Since I am spinning my wheels daily here wondered if there was any other information or guidance that could be provided regarding the Peer Teaching Class. Having done one last year for CTCH 602 I am wondering if I would need to do much the same but just on “tech steroids” as it were- with […]

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Marketing Education Review, Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2009) Leighann C. Neilson (Queens University, Ottawa Canada) POST: Lynn Barnsback    The paper discusses this professors program, the New Tools Briefing (NTB), how it was designed and works. Identifying much the same need we all have, “how to equip our “digital native” or “netgen” students to […]

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The author of this article speaks to the need for a broader understanding among teachers and scholars and learning institutions of the role of multimedia production as a form of literacy with its own rhetorical dimensions. Rhetoric, of course, having to do with the art of speaking and writing well, and the five rules (canons) […]

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