The award ceremony for the 2008 MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards was last Friday. I drove back from Purdue in time to be there – mainly because I wanted to hear how people would respond to our faux radio interview 🙂
The event went off well, and people laughed at the right spots when the audio clip was played. Below are some photographs from the event.
Thanks to Brandon Blinkenberg for the photographs. Brandon is a cool photographer, check out his flickr page here.
A few randomly selected blog posts…
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Elizabeth Helfant over at Digital Learning Environments Blog has an interesting posting titled The Pancake principle. She makes a connection between technology integration and making pancakes, and offers three tenets of the Pancake principle. This posting is inspired...
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