Steve Ersinghaus

Mark Bernstein turns us on to Hypertext 07 and to opportunities for hypertext artists. Another of his posts lead me to Weblogg-ed and Couros, a digital literacies weblog.
All of these issues reflect tight subjects of mine, especially the integration of tech into teaching and learning. My emphasis has always been on what I would call [...]

For students or anyone else coming to this weblog you should not that a few things have changes. Lots of trimming going on around here.
First off, there is a new weblog in operation over at Courses. This weblog will act as a loci for the courses that I teach. I wont be posting a lot [...]

In one of our favorite fun games, the main character must save a people from an evil, world dominator. The character must, however, purchase weapons and upgrades from the very people she’s trying to save. Fun game, really dumb concept, and easily fixed.
So what to make of the NCEE’s $20 Saveus proposal. Maybe this [...]

A list of responses to Time’s recent headliner:
The way we teach kids has not changed very much over the years. Yet all around our schools, society has changed in astounding ways. We are able to put humans into space, and yet, students in America’s urban schools couldn’t explain how a vehicle put into space is [...]

One of the problems with updating this space for the last couple of weeks is that I’ve been working elsewhere, behind the scenes with another weblog, in front using one as a course hub, and doing a whole bunch of thinking about RSS, library research work with some fabulous colleagues (R and A), and Ability-based [...]

This weblog, dedicated to course material and conveyance (at least thus far), is now in the workable stage with feeds entering the sidebar and information content continually being added. I’m finding the theme somewhat confusing with staggered subject clusters, hindering contrasts between link and headings, and just odd dynamics between paragraphs. It’s not [...]

An appropriate end to BL2 with Beckett’s Endgame. The folks in class were able to connect Clov’s windows to Television and restricted views it promotes (Ahmed reminds us that the world is more than CNN’s square of space), enabling a wonderful conversation about the irony of ceratin positions on globalization, media, and attitudes about knowledge. [...]

My project to put together a “Content Management/Course Architecture” system just isn’t moving. There are lots of nice open source items to work with, lots of options: Joomla, TextPattern, and other systems, including Wordpress, but the ideas aren’t collecting.
I want a system that students can come to as a node for thinking. A link to [...]

Most people know the figuring of the area of a circle is A = pi x r squared. It was Archimedes in the 3rd century BC who did the figuring in Measurement of the Circle. But what I find important about this is not the formula but the kind of thinking that proved the [...]

I performed a seacrh for the word assessment on this weblog and found posts that tracked a few elements I’ve been thinking about. This post grabbed my attention, this paragraph in particular
I would generalize that if most people heard that life existed on Jupiter, they wouldn’t think much of it, unless thy also heard that [...]

From my friend Christopher Coonce-Ewing
First the fact that we pay full tuition to teach irks me a bit. But then, because it’s only nine credits we have to get a special form filled out, signed by the Dean of Education and bring it to the Registrar that tells them to accept the total of [...]

I had a wonderful conversation with students in Brit Lit after returning an exam on the Victorians. The discussion focused on outcomes, grades, and plans to expand outcomes-based learning across the curriculum at Sixnut U. This semester, in a few select courses, I’ve avoided discussion of grades, while in others I’ve been giving them out [...]

At the college we’ve talking a lot about ability-based teaching and learning. Invariably, this had led to discussion about the diction of education as a matter of practice. What is an educational objective, for example? In the mean time, I’ve been having interesting conversations with students who are beginning to think not in terms of [...]

Writing with a hypertext tool is a learning experience in and of itself. I think real learning is captured in the journey: you learn as you go and when you hit a snag, you figure the problem out, connecting what you know to what you don’t, and then entering a room with objects that look [...]

Good models are a requirement in the development of habitable space. Jeremy Heibert is doing just this at his weblog in regards to learning spaces. He’s definitely delivering in larger ways than I am in my own efforts at a “flexible center” using wordpress as a tool that pulls information into a complex hypertext [...]