Category Archives: Quoted

Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens

Technological Horizons in Education Journal asked several educators what they thought it means to be a good digital citizen. I commented on skills necessary to be literate in a digital world.

The article begins:

In today’s world of near-ubiquitous connectivity, in which ordinary people have almost instantaneous access to unlimited stores of information and the ability to interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime, what does it mean to be an effective citizen? What skills and knowledge do our students need to participate fully in a world transformed by technology? What role should our schools play in developing effective digital citizens?

Sandbox News

bentley newsroomcampus technology article

The Bentley Newsroom wrote a short article published todayannouncing to the campus community that we’re open.

Campus Technology interviewed me about the technology, online, and collaborative aspects of the Sandbox in an interview that appeared on Nov. 2, 2011.

Lots going on that students are doing in the Sandbox these days. In addition to helping students with their classes, we’re offering a workshop with Microsoft on xbox development, and one next week on phone development. There’s a logo contest (the winner gets an ipod) and lots of other good information!

12 Cool-laborative Web 2.0 Tools

Check out the latest list of Web 2.0 collaboration tools in this month’s Campus Technology magazine.  I was one of the “self-confessed web 2.0 junkies” interviewed for the article. The others were:

Matt Brinton

Matt Brinton is the interim assistant director of student activities at Metropolitan State College of Denver, as well as the NASPA Region IV-W technology knowledge community representative.


Kimberly LaPrairie
Kimberly LaPrairie is the coordinator of the Master of Education in Instructional Technology program at Sam Houston State University (TX), and an assistant professor in curriculum and instruction. She uses numerous web 2.0 tools in her courses, most of which are completely online.

Alexandra Pickett
Alexandra Pickett is the associate director of the award-winning SUNY Learning Network, the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York. She also teaches Introduction to Online Teaching in the online CDIT master’s program at the University at Albany (NY).

This year’s batch of collaboration tools includes amplify, audioboo, dropbox, eventbrite,  factual, glogster, join.me, jumpscan, pbworks, quora, voki, and zamzar.  How many do you use in your class?