Ric Wiltse's Page

Friday, March 20
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
$40 (register at www.macul.org)

Instructional Strategies for Using Mobile Computers in the Classroom

Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and
Cathleen Norris, Regents Professor, University of North Texas

This lab identifies ten instructional strategies that take advantage of the affordability of laptops, mini-laptops, and cellphone computers, Participants will then use what they have just learned to plan les… Continue

Note to MACUL Space members: The following article is by Jason Ohler from the University of Alaska. Jason is our 2009 MACUL conference opening keynote speaker on Friday, March 20. Educators may reprint Jason's columns online and in print publications free of charge.

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Had fun helping the Calvin College Handbell Choir conduct a videolink between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Tokyo, Japan last week. My wife is the director of the Calvin group and we connected with our good friend Scott Ponzani who teaches at the Christian Academy in Japan. See http://caj.or.jp/

We had the wonderful opportunity to visit Scott in Japan a few years ago with our two sons who were teenagers at the time (now 20 and 22).

The videolink was made with a simple Skype connection, and we had… Continue

Update to the MACUL Board on August 3, 2007...

ATA Technology Academy – The Summer 2008 ATA Technology Academy is taking place the week of August 6-10 at the University of Michigan-Flint. Workshops will be held for Making Your Own Website, CareerForward, Grantwriting and ATA III. Please be thinking about how MACUL can be more effective in offering ATA courses in 2008.


AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase – The 2007 AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase will be held on Wednesday, Se… Continue

Had a great meeting today with Susan English (Aquinas College), Julia VanderMolen (Davenport University), and Andrew Topper (Gand Valley State University). We talked about how we can establish a better MACUL conference emphasis for undergraduate and graduate students as well as schools of education faculty.

Among the things we discussed are how we can create innovative ways to provide registration incentives to attend the conference, establish a poster area or student technology showcase for un… Continue