AnthonyFosterPhD

The SBTS student body is having a show, so I put a couple pieces in play to help the turnout- but not this one. "Seed of the Woman Lifted Up"- 2008- 38"x12" Cast Bronze, Redwood, Styrene, and Pressboard.

This was my fourth or fifth Michael Card concert over the years, and it brought to mind how different every concert has been. The crowd at Southern was larger than some church setttings I have previously heard the artist perform in. It was laid back and included a bit more singalong than usual, I think. The ad hoc way in which he wove the songs together was very effective, I think, and the mix of stories and illustrations brought them together coherently. I enjoy Michael Card as an instrumentalist as well, and he treated us to a real variety along those lines.

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The National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD) awarded the 2007 Institutional Merit Award to the SLCC Professional Development Council for their five certificate programs –Leadership/Management, Classified Development, Adjunct Faculty, Essential Technology Skills and Office Productivity. I was a lead designer for three of these programs. The fruit of my labor over the past couple of years (along with my very praiseworthy team) has been named a finalist in two categories of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 23rd Annual Codie Awards competition- the awards honor outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content, and education technology industries. This is two years in a row it’s been nominated (sorry, no win last year)… Voting continues till April 25 and SIIA will announce the winners of the 2008 Codie Awards at a gala dinner in San Francisco on May 20, 2008.

McGraw-Hill Online Learning has been selected as a finalist in the Best Postsecondary Course or Learning Management Solution category and the Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution category.

Participation in an Online Learning Community - discusses the need for a pedagogical approach that relies heavily on social, collaborative and ethical aspects of learning as a starting point for the design of online learning communities. More research supports the idea that the successful traits of a distance learner are similar to the successful traits of an adult learner in traditional educational settings. Problem based Learning research . Athabasca University Elluminate seminars: Case study in Problem Based Learning . And Effective use of context in learning . Research on Fostering equitable University access . Applications to colleges are breaking records - The swelling population of 18-year-olds is not supposed to peak until 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate. A Taste of Web 2.0- article A good video on Web 2.0 differences from jutecht on YouTube- Piano Lessons online -This was curiously interesting to see ...

A bunch-o-tunes turned up as I was transcribing some old tapes that predate my digital recorders I carry everywhere I go...some were unfinished so they will get a 2008 date. I'll just post these as separate pages as there are almost twenty of them total... New 2006 songs New 2008 songs