Later this afternoon I’ll be presenting at NOVA’s PUP (Power up your pedagogy) conference.  My session is called “Mobile Apps that Support Learning: How and Why Faculty 
Should Use Them.”  I came up with the idea for this session last August, and immediately ran to my NOVA colleague, Nikkia Anderson, who is an Instructional Technologist for Hybrid Instruction.  She and I collaborated on the development of the session, and today is our third time presenting it.  You’d think I’d feel ready, like today would be a piece of cake.

But no, I awoke at 5am with new ideas and questions to ponder that would make my session even better.  Here’s some last-minute reading I drummed up this morning along with my first cup of coffee:

Help Students Develop Lifelong Learning Skills with Web 2.0 Tools – Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus.

Embracing the iPad and the Wonderful World of Apps in the Classroom | Faculty Focus.

Evernote Blog | How my students started using Evernote – Education Series.

Now, not only do I feel amped about presenting, but I’ve come up with an experiment for this semester: I’m going to embrace Evernote on my desktop (using the “Web Clipper” add on for Firefox) and also on my iPhone (using the mobile app) and encourage my students to use it (with delightful incentives, of course) to see how much it really enhances higher order learning in the online, mobile classroom.