Tag: elearning
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Live lecture/webinar hybrid experiment
I’m currently teaching two sections of the same introductory GIS course, one face-to-face (F2F), and one online. This morning I tried a little experiment – I taught my regular F2F class in a lecture hall as usual, but I had a live webinar version of it online at the same time. It went remarkably well,…
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GIS instructors and teaching with technology
It’s not much of a stretch to say that most GIS instructors are likely also techies (Mirriam-Webster: “a person who is very knowledgeable or enthusiastic about technology”), myself included. It follows then, that we would also be interested in exploring the use of technology for how we teach, not just what we teach. I attended…
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Perfectionism, procrastination, and an unpolished first video demo
Like many technology-oriented people, I consider myself to be a bit of a perfectionist. There’s something about the crisp, exact, digital world that makes me want to fuss over every pixel, every detail. To be clear, I’m not saying this in a braggy, interview way (“My worst fault? Well I guess you could say I’m…
