Columbia, South Carolina is home to the National Advocacy Center. The NAC is the principal training center for the US Department of Justice to train US Attorneys from around the country. When the Office of Legal Education (inside the NAC) needed an expert to teach US Attorneys about Instructional Design, they called me. I was [...]
On November 2, 2011 I had the pleasure of traveling to Wagener, SC to present to teachers at Wagener Salley High School. The school had an early release day and they asked me to come in and talk with them about a few topics. I presented three sessions, leaving time for teachers to try out [...]
On March 10, 2011 I had the privilege of presenting a full day of professional development to the faculty and staff at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood, SC. I presented several times during the day exploring such topics as: Engaging Today’s Learners – Opening Keynote Cognitive Load Theory and Motivation – Breakout session Question and [...]
On Monday, November 1, 2010 I had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote presentation for Greenwood SD 50‘s first Student Engagement Conference. I talked about engagement as possibly being an idol. I talked about the notion that we often seek engagement without really defining what it is, let alone quantifying some measure of determining [...]
On November 1, 2010 I will be delivering a keynote presentation for roughly 600 teachers in Greenwood, SC for Greenwood SD 50. I’m very excited to be presenting at their Student Engagement conference. I am looking at student engagement through a new lens lately. I often wonder if we don’t set engagement up as a [...]
I am thrilled to have been invited to deliver the keynote address at the Upstate Technology Conference recently. Embedded here please find the keynote address, in its entirety. Please understand this is my first keynote address, so that might explain my nervousness! I want to thank Jeff McCoy, Tim Van Heule, Tim Cushman, Cathy Arnold, [...]
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