About Me

I am at Florida State College Jacksonville in the Office of Learning Services. I lead the custom learning solutions for our new small business unit Global Education Learning Solutions GLS. I enjoy presenting at various conferences on my work and research interests. Currently I am very interested in mobile e-books, immersive exploratory learning objects, offline synchronizing LMS technologies, and situated cognition. Additionally, I am experimenting with ways immersive virtual environments such as Second Life may be used to support teaching and learning. One fascinating book I recommend for those interested in virtual worlds is Synthetic Worlds by Edward Castronova. Last year I completed a multiple case study exploring student learning experiences with mobile e-books, with a particular focus on situated learning and am interested in the learning applications of social media.....

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

ITC eLearn & NACTC Long Beach

Just got back from conferences in Long Beach California, and it sure was a great experience.   At ITC eLearn there were some innovative approaches Sinclair Community College shared for online, interactive virtual labs that our faculty found promising.   One aspect that I found nice was the fact that they had built some mobile learning applications for these labs.  Nice work...

My Florida State College at Jacksonville team [Global Learning Solutions GLS] received an award for outstanding and effective use of technology for one of our mobile course designs we did for deployed Navy students.   The team worked hard on this and I was very appreciative and grateful to receive the award for their hard work and dedication.

Lastly, we had a chance to visit the Long Beach Aquarium and La Brea Tar Pits [images below] which was a first for all of us.  What a great learning experience!  I have to say the traffic in LA was horrible, but I would come back to Long Beach anytime!  It was great to see people, young and old, speeding around on skateboards everywhere.  :)











Monday, February 27, 2012

!!All Assignments due by 3.3.12 EEX4231 360970 ASSES CHD W/SP NEEDS A8

It has been a great course with everyone in this course.  If you are missing any assignments please get them posted into Blackboard by 3.3.12 as I am busy grading all your assignments, discussions, and group projects this week.   Thank you, hope to see many of you in future courses.   Dr Kissinger 

Discussion grades EME2040

I have graded discussions 1-3 and they have been overall quite nice.   Students that received the most points were those who posted thoughtful ideas, responded to each other, and truly contributed to the class knowledge.  Going forward try to post at least 3 to 6 times and grapple with these important questions.... Dr K   

Thursday, February 23, 2012

EME2040 Discussion Question-----question...

Ed tech students: it seems a couple of you all are confused about what is required for discussion 3.  Let me see if I can clarify a bit....


I just got back from http://www.itcnetwork.org/elearning-conference.html a conference on learning and technology.  Much goes into planning a successful event, and it requires a lot of technical and pedagogical know how.  That is what I want you to grapple with.  Role play as if you were planning your own conference, demonstrate to me in the discussion that you have thought it out and planned for an event that is stimulating and successful!

Dr.  Kissinger