To understand color value, think how a color changes as either more and more white paint is added versus more and more black. In the digital realm, value change can only operate on a slider along a single side of a color picker.

Last Fall, during our inaugural launch of the CITE Fellows program, our Instructional Design Team was faced with a difficult challenge: how can we pair CITE faculty with Designers to work on innovative projects that have never been seen before? We came up with a few...

In a conversation with Bill Moyers, the scholar Joseph Campbell said that "if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you...

I work with a shockingly bright group of Instructional Designers, a team of 12 professionals from crazily diverse backgrounds. I often refer to them as the X-Men even though it's kind of a misnomer (since we're 75% female). We possess a wide range of skills, from...

Originally this post was called "How To Automatically Share Google+ Posts on Twitter and Facebook." Except, as it turns out, you can't do this.   At least not in a way that I've figured out yet.   I was hoping to be able to talk to and share with my students via...

I’m currently preparing for a faculty training session (iTeach) meant to help faculty integrate technology into their teaching in meaningful ways. I’m enjoying the process of planning the curriculum for teaching the teachers, mostly because I myself have only recently...

In 1967 Roland Barthes announced the "The Death of the Author." His assertion was that all authors are collage artists, merely stitching together previous utterances, whether from speech overheard or from the texts of the past. All writing, according to Barthes, "is...

Being your own IT Support staff means being willing to solve your own problems AND knowing where to look.   1. First of all, when in doubt, Google it! Teach yourself and your students how to use Google better using Google for Educators.   One of the more...

In making the transition from a solely face-to-face teacher to an online educator, I've had to uncover and address some of my own biases toward what "online education" looks like... and I've realized that they are many. I keep thinking about the job of faculty here at...

Parenthetical Aside #1: (This place has me thinking. A lot. My new life as an Instructional Designer has made it abundantly clear that something about the internet has changed. I've known this for some time, but have only recently had to articulate exactly how.)...