Tag: pepperdine
Technology Tuesdays: The Promise/Failure of Social Media: Voyeurism isn’t Community
I’ve believed in the potential of online communities since logging onto my first BBS in the late...
JBB’s Final Thoughts Episode 17: Just Checkin’ In
JBB’s Final Thoughts Episode 17: Just Checkin’ In. Borrowing from my online...
What Do Online Educators Do: The Mythical Boundary between Personal Life and Work Life
You don’t have to be an online educator to have boundary issue betweens ones work life and...
What Do Online Educators Do: More Connected and Not Limited to Any Place or Time
As I mentioned in the previous post, there appears to be a lot confusion about what education is...
Why Should We Let You Into Our Doctorate Club?
Last time I talked to Dr. Sparks (“Sparky”) we were enjoying a late night dinner at the Old Ebbitt Grill following a week roaming the streets of DC and the halls of power with my Pepperdine cadremates. He...
Google OS Announced Today, I Predicted it 3 Years Ago
In their official blog, Google announced Google Chrome OS. CNET’s Webware ask why, to which...
Will Buying Heal Old Scars
One of my students commented in his blog that he’d just had a relaxing weekend, noting that...
Before and After
What else can you do when you get kicked out of a doctoral program? Of course, cut your hair. It was time. Life throws you a curveball, you throw one back. 🙂 and it’ll make my mom happy (something one can never...
Pepperdine EdD: Sound of Doors Closing
It’s been an amazing year. A year ago February I decided to accept the challenge of moving...
Intellectualism and conservative religion
Is there a fundamental conflict for someone to be an intellectual and a believer in conservative...
Broke Bookends
Remember how impressed I was last time when I was using online research tools? Yeah, in the meantime I’ve run headlong into a less than amazing experience. I went so far as to pay for the upgrade of my copy of Bookends,...
Zotero & RefWorks: Damn Web-Based Apps that Work
I’ve been going at it all day, one tutorial after another, pausing to answer student queries...
Apple’s RDF Hits Me at Full Sail Promo
I’m beginning to think that the famed “Reality Distortion Field” isn’t...
Busy – My life as I knew it is over… and I feel fine
So, what the hell have I been doing for the past four weeks? `Yeah, there was this little thing called Macworld and believe it or not I’ve been editing photos since then and playing catch up with my FS courses. Now...
Online Ed Doesn’t Equal Correspondence Ed
Most of my fellow course directors sit within earshot of my desk and on more than a few occasions we’ve pulled our chairs together and talked about things that seem to work in online learning and things that don’t....
The Road Back, Part 2
So I sent off my Request for Re-admittance email to Pepperdine yesterday afternoon and then went...
