I was talking to one of our graduate students, Mark Jones, and he showed me a Wordle cloud he made using his dissertation literature review. I thought it was a cool idea, and I thought I’d show you the cloud I made using my dissertation, Can advance organizers reduce computer anxiety in preservice teachers?.
So by now I’m sure everyone’s heard about Google releasing their own web browser, Chrome. I’ve downloaded it, I’ve installed it, and I’ve used it. I guess the only thing I have yet to figure out how it’s going to work is all the Firefox extensions and add-ins that I use. But that notwithstanding, isn’t [...]
Spring break and the later part of the semester have been absolutely KILLING me for time. And that doesn’t even factor in the time I’ve been spending coaching my son John’s 12 and under travel baseball team, the Perkins Patriots. So besides being woefully behind on grading, trying to pass third year reappointment, trying to [...]
Today was my presentation for the AECT Teacher Education division’s WAG (web-based brown bag). They had me present on our efforts to put the preservice teacher technology course online here at Oklahoma State University. Angel Kymes and I taught it the first time together (different sections of the same class), and she and I presented [...]
So once again, Jane Hart is running her Top Ten Tools for Learning list. Last year I posted my list, but I was too late to have it listed on her overall list. I’ve looked over my list, and it has changed quite a bit. Here’s a short recap of last year’s list (without annotations): [...]

