Hi there,
I thought I'd introduce myself by way of an ice-breaker I often use with my Senior Business Seminar class. It requires students to tell the class 10 things about themselves, one of which is blatantly false. You all will need to guess which of the following is not true:
(1) I have never blogged before.
(2) Five minutes into this assignment, we lost power at our house. I am sitting in front of my laptop with an LLBean headlantern pointed at the screen loading my introduction. I deserve an A for effort, don't you think?
(3) I am currently working on a memoir called "Class Act".
(4) I took a 20 year sabbatical from teaching at the college level in order to be a K-12 public school administrator.
(5) I drive an in-your-face green Honda element.
(6) I live in a log cabin.
(7) I am a tenured member of the Franklin Pierce University faculty.
(8) I am a native of New Hampshire.
(9) I have high expectations for myself and my students.
(10) I look forward to meeting all of you on Monday.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Introducing Keith Detjen
Hello everyone, my name is Keith Detjen and I am an Instructor of Sports & Recreation Management at FPU. This year will be my first year teaching full time; I spent the last 4+ years teaching sport/recreation management courses as an adjunct professor at Southern NH University, Daniel Webster College, New England College, and Pierce. Over these past several year I have taught hybrid classes and utilized e-learning tools in my traditional style classes, but have yet to teach a 100% online class. I have used Blackboard but have not yet used WebCt. I am eager to learn how I can build off of what I have already been doing with e-learning and technology in my classes, as well as learning new forms of e-learning that I can incorporate. I found what Winni and Donna said about the online personas vs "real" personalities interesting, and also struggle with how technology can create an easier, more difficult or somewhere in between platform for learning. Another big issue I think all schools struggle with is writing across the curriculum and how technology, especially e-leaning platforms, can help bridge this gap. I look forward to meeting and working with you all at next week's workshop.