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Our office publishes the mcli Forum once a semester, where I am responsible for writing or arranging a technology article. Below I will included a summary of past articles.
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'A Story About Teaching Digital Storytelling at Scottsdale Community College'
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Spring 2004 issue.
This was an interview with Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn from Scottsdale Comuntity College who have been
doing some amazing things for the last few years teaching a course in Digital Storytelling. In this
article, they talk about how they came to teach this class and some of the outcomes they have
seen from their students.
Because of the interest form other faculty, during the Summer of 2004, mcli offered two LearnShops in Digital Storytelling and our site offers
examples of the stories in streaming video format.
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| Published Oct 04, 2004
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'Pssss... Have You Heard About RSS?'
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Fall 2003 Issue.
I had been experimenting, reseraching, and using "Really Simple Syndication" for a while and used this article to try and
bring this techie concept down to a simple, understandable level. it uses the familiar "headline" / "article" metaphor and provides
ways RSS can be used in desktop readers, site such as Bloglines, where the RSS content comes form, and even
examples of how RSS can be used in any web page, including ones inside Blackboard or WebCT.
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| Published Oct 04, 2004
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'The Long After Life of Simulation Software: Hidden Agenda'
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Fall 2003 Issue.
Yes, I had two technology articles in this issue! In this one, I shared how our mid 1990s web reviews of a software game called Hidden Agenda has taken
on a life of its own. Because it comes up often in web searches, our site now provides
a place for the original developer of this educational computer simulatiom to "give it away" to people who request the
software, in exchange for a deal: (he wants to know how they use the software, and if interested, asks people to
donate money to a non governmental organization working in Central America.
This was fun to do as I have never met the author, and we conducted the interview completely
via e-mail.
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| Published Oct 04, 2004
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'David Weaver's Hybrid Theory*'
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Fall 2002 Issue.
David was one of the first faculty members I met when I started at Maricopa in 1992, and
remains one of my favorite teachers to follow in terms of the innovations he continually brings to
his Physics classes.
In this article, David describes his deep foray into converting his course to a "hybrid" format-- and offers his
two different models. What's not in the article (and perhaps a future one) would be his discovery that
his model dod not work as well as expected, and has been discarded. Rather than hiding this as
a "failure", David is analytical in identifying why his hybrids "flopped", and reveals his experimental approach to teaching.
As a fun add on to the article, we were able to use some digital video we filmed
during a class visit when his students where engaged in "Robot Soccer Wars" using the electronic robots they
had built in class (or watch them now in QuickTime Real Media or Windows Media formats
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