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Macaulay Springboards: The Capstone as an Open Learning Eportfolio
a later version of this essay appears in Eportfolio as Curriculum, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey, from Stylus Publishing. Macaulay Springboards: The Capstone as an Open Learning Eportfolio Joseph Ugoretz Macaulay Honors College, CUNY Introduction A department office at a large public university is often a busy place. When I was an undergraduate, long […]
Women in STEM
Last week I was at the 2016 Summit of the National Center for Women and Information Technology. It was an interesting conference in several ways (the large, mostly empty, slightly creepy desert hotel constantly evoked the warm smell of colitas), but mostly because of the very powerful keynote by Melissa Harris Perry. She began by giving us a […]
The Technology of Smarthistory
(A long and technical post follows. If you don’t care to read it, if you’re of the TL;DR school, then go, right now, to Smarthistory.org and take a look at what kind of a beautiful OER can be made with WordPress.) As anyone who knows me knows, I’m a big supporter (and helper, I guess) […]
video player buttons disappearing in wordpress in all browsers
This one falls into the “reminding myself how to do the workaround” category, but maybe it will be helpful to someone else, too. The WordPress media player has some nice buttons for play, volume, full-screen, and so on. But no matter what I did, I could not see those buttons in any browser. They were […]
A long and balanced MOOC report
I was interviewed for this report, although my role was small, and now it’s out, and I think worth a read. It’s long, but that means it’s comprehensive. I was impressed by the real openness and curiosity of the researchers and the way they didn’t start with preconceived notions. So give it a read: MOOCs: […]
Why videos?
In the Cathy Davidson “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC, I’m really intrigued by her decision (or maybe Coursera’s decision?) to have so much of the content delivered by means of video. Particularly I’m intrigued (or even concerned) by the use of video that takes so little advantage of the affordances of the […]
Creativity vs. Organization
I’m enrolled in Cathy Davidson’s “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC. I’ve got some comments about the course in general in another post, but I thought that I might as well share, here, my first assignment for the course. No guarantees that I will keep up with these assignments, but at least I […]
Reverse Midterm
This exercise is one that I invented (pretty much on the spur of the moment) last year, when students asked me if we were having a midterm and I hadn’t planned on it. I told them no, then thought it over a bit. The next class I came in and put on a grave and […]
Classroom Manifesto
In no particular order, I propose these two dozen…. Questions are more important than answers. Cooperating is more important than competing. Thinking is more important than knowing. Searching is more important than finding. Making is more important than having. Opportunities are more important than rules. Understanding is more important than achieving. Learning is more important […]
Protecting Uploaded Files in WordPress
After a long day of struggling with various .htaccess solutions (none of which I could get to work at all in WordPress multisite), I had the wonderful idea to ask for help from the wp-edu listserv and within minutes, Daniel Bachhuber responded with a perfect solution. But maybe I should have started with the problem. (Let’s […]
