Visalia Direct: Virtual ValleyMay 20, 2013 DeadlineJuly 2013 Issue Letters from the Mailbag Questions and suggestions from readers arrive every month. It’s always nice to…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Author: Poet Ponders
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley December 2, 2013 Deadline January 2014 Issue Our Valley Home: Virtual Life in the Valley Mornings begin with a…
Earlier this semester, there was a “glitch” with the Blackboard shell for my writing course. I had spent hours and hours uploading content, organizing the…
Visalia Direct: Virtual ValleyNovember 4, 2013 DeadlineDecember 2013 Issue Tablet Time: When Less is Best My next computer will be a tablet. Yes, I called…
Online education is an accommodation to life’s realities. For years I denied that online education was in many ways inferior to physical campuses. But, now…
Visalia Direct: Virtual ValleyOctober 7, 2013 DeadlineNovember 2013 Issue Apple Tech is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary Technology revolutions are not as sudden as people believe. Not…
Back to school means back to Blackboard. My frustration with most learning management system (LMS) platforms is well known. The administration of a class, depending…
Back to school means back to the battles with Blackboard (I’ve posted on that plenty of times). Even if BB was the perfect learning management…
Video games are written, before and during the coding process. They are, after all, stories — from the simple story of a hungry “Pac-Man” avoiding…
University instructors have it somewhat easier than K12 teachers: accepting “friend” requests from our students, especially our adult and non-traditional students, isn’t much of an…