Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: November 28, 2011
“Mary Alice can take care of the e-newsletter; she has the tech skills.” The skills I have acquired continue to be valuable in so many ways — creating e-newsletters or databases, helping others, teaching online classes and working on education related projects. It’s all relative! There is always someone who knows more than [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 3, 2011
Questions about facilities design abound in discussion groups. Will media centers, as we know them, be built twenty years from now? Will trends of classroom and mobile technology make physical space irrelevant? Continuing and rapid changes in program staffing, program delivery and technology are a given; making it challenging to design a facility to meet [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: January 18, 2011
Learning from the students always adds to the pleasure of online teaching. Yesterday a student in a class I’m teaching for the Library Media Education Department at Minnesota State University-Mankato introduced us to Tagexdo. It took just seconds to create the star cloud by submitting the URL for this blog. I explored color, font, [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: January 3, 2011
A new year; a new batch of resolutions about all the new things we will learn about technology and web 2.0. We media specialists seem to do a pretty good job of being hard on ourselves for the things we don’t get done or the things we don’t learn. I’ve been struggling with Dreamweaver .css [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 30, 2010
Glogster is emerging as a new favorite tool for students in the primary sources class. This fun easy to use tool for creating interactive posters and collaborative class projects is yet another way to enhance the use of primary sources and engage students. Monica, a media specialist in Georgia created a glog about Agirama, Georgia’s [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: July 1, 2010
