Overall, the last few weeks with my masters degree have been fairly uneventful—until yesterday. I spent the last 36 hours in Columbus getting ready for a regional event for the Ohio Learning Network. Shortly after the event began yesterday morning, I received an email from someone in my department. This person, whom we shall call [...]

Alright, so I took the plunge… I got an iPhone! I am super pumped and very impressed with the functionality thus far. HOWEVER… there is 1 big downside… the lack of MMS. For those of you unsure what I’m speaking of, MMS is the capability of sending picture, video, and audio messages. SMS is standard [...]

I spent the Christmas holiday in Cleveland where there was barely any snow on the ground. Snow started falling from the sky around noon on Christmas Day, but at the end, there was barely an inch in accumulation. That made me think that it was going to be somewhat of an Indian summer. Boy was [...]

As part of my masters degree in Instructional Design and Technology, I am beginning my research thesis this semester. The topic that I have chosen is to determine whether participating in social media / social networks can influence student learning among college undergraduates. I am currently in the planning stages of my thesis proposal and [...]