Welcome to Edtechagogue

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Welcome to my "work life" blog.  .

I have blogged personally since 2010 (first here, but now here) about the things in my personal life. But lately I've felt a need to add a blog about the types of work I do and about the more technical aspects of my life.  My work as an academic administrator - the "formal" part of my job - really isn't all that exciting.  And, I think a blog about most of that work would have the following of...well no one really.  

However, the stuff I love to do at work and in the "professional" part of my life - talking with students and educators about how they learn and how they want to help students learn - and then figuring out how to use technology to make those pathways to learning more fun, more rewarding, and more open...that is what gets me all excited.  That is the work I truly love.  So, today, when I don't even manage to post regularly on my personal blog, I feel called to take on another blog...one to talk about the tech.  

I want to use this blog as a forum to talk about how technology can be used.  I will use it as a forum to publish some how-to's about using technology with learning.  Because I spend a good part of my day logged into one or more Blackboard servers, I'll probably spend some time talking about how you specifically use Blackboard for these purposes.  But, I'll talk about other tools too like the iPad, like plain, 'ole Microsoft Office, and like the odd and mysterious "cloud" (for those of you in the know...that's really just an ethereal word for "the Internet".  We'll talk about security.  We'll talk about mobility.  We'll talk about copyright, fair use, and especially about creative commons.  Most importantly...we'll talk...because it is engaging with one another - whether online or in person - that we learn.  

We learn through our experiences and many times, the best learning experiences are simple conversations.  I hope that we have those here.

Welcome to Edtechagogue!