Welcome To A Brave New World

Does technology consume a good deal of your time? Can you use technology to make learning more creative and perhaps just fun? This is my attempt to share my experiences as an academic who chooses to use technology to teach, inspire and improve the world that we live in. I hope to post once a month about something that I have discovered, and I hope that you join me on the pathway to technological heaven!

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