http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping tales of swimming upstream Tue, 13 May 2008 04:04:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time for that post again. Programs. . .check. Nametags. . .check. Twittercamp. . .check. Replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise. . .but of course!! Faculty Academy 2008 takes off at 8:30 tomorrow morning, and everything seems to be in order.  Last year at this time I was plagued with a splitting ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/05/12/countdown/ Note: I wrote this post weeks ago and never posted. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it felt like too much of a rant, and I was sick of ranting. It sort of felt overly argumentative, and that wasn't really my point. But I'm not going to edit it, I'll just ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/04/30/pin-the-technology/ One of the things I love about my job is being able to witness some of the most innovative, creative, transformative teaching around. Every year, I learn about courses being taught at UMW or elsewhere that are using digital technology to push the boundaries of the classroom, and it's what ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/04/30/best-of-the-classroom/ Last week, Steve blogged about a meeting that I was also in at which a group of us tackled the program for an upcoming workshop at the University for faculty teaching freshman seminars next year. I had to miss the meeting that preceded this one in which a smaller group had ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/03/06/fsem-musings/ Over at Geeky Mom, Laura has a wonderful post up that extends some of what she, Barbara Ganley, Barbara Sawhill, Leslie Madsen-Brooks, and I spoke about during our presentation on "Fear 2.0" at ELI last week (I have a long post in me about the presentation, but I'm saving it ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/02/08/thinking-bigger/ I've been in a bit of a blogging slump -- call it a "pregnant pause" -- and I'm deterimed to bootstrap myself out of it. Part of my block has to do with the fact that there is so much going on, I'm not really sure where to start. I've got ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2008/02/05/an-aggregation-fiesta/ Some people who work with me are probably sick of me talking about how much I love del.icio.us, but I don't care. I really love del.icio.us. If I was on some weird desert island where I was forced to only choose one Web 2.0 tool (maybe the desert island is ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2007/12/05/bring-us-your-fear/ http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2007/11/13/rising-star/ We're a little more than half way through a semester's work with this year's TLT Fellows. For those of you who don't know, the Fellows program brings together five faculty members at UMW to talk about and work on projects that use technology to transform teaching and learning. Since early ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2007/11/12/fostering-blogging/ Up way too early this morning, I was on the InformationSuperNetHighWeb™ and came across this description of the Music Plus One (MPO) project out of the School of Informatics at Indiana U. For those of you who aren't familiar with Music Minus One (I wasn't), it's a program that allows ... http://www.marthaburtis.net/wrapping/2007/11/07/synthesis/