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14 Oct, 2008

Welcome to Two New Writers on EduTechie.com

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging

I am DELIGHTED to welcome two new people that will be posting on EduTechie.
Darryle Bajomo is a junior Graphic Design major (in the journalism school) here at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina and likes to do video game design in his non-existient spare time, and [...]

Presenters:

Dr. Paula Hudson – Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program – Elon University
Rick Palmer – Instructional Designer, Instructional Design & Development – Elon University

Example Blog They Used in Classroom:

Tests and Measures

Possible Assignment Candidate’s for Blogging

A flat assignment – an assignment that is boring. Something that students hate to learn and teachers hate to [...]

09 May, 2008

Automatically post shared Google Items on Blog

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging

So with the recent announcement by the increasingly awesome Google Reader team of a note taking ability for Shared Google Reader items, I have figured out a way to automatically add my comments to posts I read and post it on my wordpress blog.  For those like me that struggle with finding time to blog, [...]

23 Jan, 2008

Author Uses Blog Comments to Peer Review Book

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| Teacher Tools

Oh this is just awesome!  I just read about how an author, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, is using his blog to solicit feedback for a book he is publishing.  Blog’s are really going mainstream when this happens.
Great idea though!  One we have been using in education for a while… peer feedback.  Of course a blog potentially [...]

17 Jan, 2008

Blogging Survey

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| General

I came across this educational blogging survey (via Blue Skunk Blog).  I highly recommend it!  He promises to publish the results.

I heard about SharePoint last year as a way to share content among each other. I know we have a campus agreement with Microsoft right now and as far as I know, all we need to do is enable this option on our servers. I am hoping that if I know more about [...]

16 Oct, 2007

EDUCAUSE 2007 – Blogger Meetup?

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| EDUCAUSE2007

So yesterday I got a call from my boss and was asked if I wanted to go to EDUCAUSE next week in Seattle. Hmmm… let me think about it for a second… One of the biggest, if not the biggest educational conferences in the nation … connecting with people like me (obsessed instructional technologists)… [...]

26 Jul, 2007

Why Do I Blog?

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| Instructional Technology

Darren Draper, a technology specialist from Sandy Utah recently posted an article in which he asked the general question… why do we blog?  Great question for us educational bloggers out there… so why do I blog?

Darren, I started blogging because I really felt like I had some ideas that would benefit the larger educational community [...]


About Me

Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.