Author Archives: dottoremark

Figure 1: Screen shot of my Twitter profile page taken Monday, June 8, 2020. Defining the problem, and how data analytics might constitution a beneficial intervention This report considers data showing my Twitter usage during a specific two-month period, which (without any evidence to the contrary) might be extrapolated to represent normal Twitter usage overContinue reading “Web / Social Media – Twitter Analytics”

This is our on-going series, with brief posts to introduce teachers to new online terms and concepts, related to using Social Media and avoiding problems with IP Law. What are Clearances? Clearance is permission to use an object (which has inherent or registered IP values) in your video or audio or other work of artContinue reading “Online / Remote / Distance Learning, Social Media and Intellectual Property Law (Part 3)”

In our Part 1, we listed some of the IP Law areas that can get teachers and students into trouble in the great big Web 2.0 universe. Now, let’s take one and define it, and see how it works. Take Down Notices — what are they? Youtube has this notice: “If your copyright-protected work was posted on YouTubeContinue reading “Online / Remote / Distance Learning, Social Media and Intellectual Property Law (Part 2)”

With the big Covid-19 transition to online classes, lots of folks with varying levels of knowledge and technical sophistication have been tossed online, not only as new users of Web 2.0 and Social Media, etc., but also as teachers with responsibilities towards their students, colleagues and institutions. “Learn-as-you-go”? “Hit-the-ground-running”? Talk about understatement! Teachers are amazinglyContinue reading “Online / Remote / Distance Learning, Social Media and Intellectual Property Law (Part 1)”

In 1999, I signed up for a course at a major R1 university in Florida, and when we arrived at the lecture hall, we were told that 2/3 of the students would migrate to Distance Learning using Blackboard. We were shocked. The online version of our module was available during registration, but few of usContinue reading “Distance Learning became normalized and usual as an alternative learning paradigm 20 years ago — has the hour now arrived for K-12, as well, thanks to Covid-19?”

Many of the discussions about reopening our schools and colleges focuses upon the students’ “needs” and/or upon the negative effects on the economy if we don’t reopen. But few discussions give much more than lip service to the needs and concerns of the teachers themselves. For example, it any American county, is there any mentionContinue reading “How will America protect its teachers? Could Distance Learning be key to a pre-vaccine Covid-19 world?”

I’m a native American and my 1st language is English. I attended Welsh Sunday School and Swedish Sunday School as a child and I traveled to Sweden as young as 11-years old. I grew up in a multi-ethnic steel mill working class neighborhood in the Northeast Ohio / Western Penn. region (think Youngstown, Canton, Akron,Continue reading “2nd Language Acquistion: When it comes to learning a foreign languages which is best — the classroom, online learning or study abroad?”

I worked as a Teaching Assistant and Staff Chaperone for a university Film Studies / Summer Study Abroad program in 2002-2003 and again in 2003-2004. The genius of the program I worked on was the college instructor who designed it, beginning with orientation workshops as early as January, for students who planned to travel withContinue reading “Can Remote Learning Save Study Abroad from Certain Demise in a Post-Covid-19 World?”

Many schools and colleges shifted mid-term in March 2020 and complete 1/2 of Spring Term online, in what was termed, “emergency” remote teaching. The stellar efforts of teachers, students, staff and parents to cope with the shift have been picked apart and villainized by many in the press and media, while teachers, professors, adjuncts, etc.Continue reading “Are we heading toward another “emergency” remote teaching term in Fall 2020?”

Over the years, many colleagues from other disciplines within the university and college have asked me for advice, regarding the effective use of video and films in course lessons. They likely thought that my doctoral degree in films studies and 17+ years of experience as a film studies lecturer would make me an expert inContinue reading “Online Instruction: Some tips for using film and video in the classroom”