I love the smell of books . . .
dr.curry @ November 12, 2008 # One Comment
One of the things that I love the most about Oklahoma State University is our own Edmond Low Library.
Some of the other schools that I’ve either attended or taught at had old libraries, but none of them was as cool as Edmond Low. It SMELLS like old books. As I was thinking about it today, [...]
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An unexpected honor
dr.curry @ April 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last night, my wife, Lori, and I attended the Oklahoma State University Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Greek Awards, a dessert banquet put on by the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils. I had apple pie. She had carrot cake.
I was never a Greek. As a matter of fact, BYU (where I got my undergrad) doesn’t have [...]
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Teaching Preservice Teachers Online: Pitfalls and Practices
dr.curry @ March 21, 2008 # One Comment
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 [...]
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Look at me go! My first Vodcast . . .
dr.curry @ January 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So I decided to try something new–not radical, but new for me–with my online 3123 class this semester. I just thought it would be a nice change from either a text introduction or the audio introduction I did with a simple podcast last semester. Now it’s nothing fancy, but I’ve already heard back [...]
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Welcome to 2008!
dr.curry @ January 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here are some random thoughts that have been going through my head:
Biggest memory from Christmas? High School Musical. My daughter, Natalie, had a HSM and Hanna Montana Christmas, and we’ve listened to the soundtrack over and over again. Not only that, Andrew, the two-year old, has learned to change the CD to track 8 of [...]
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