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Tech Lore Galore

Over the next six weeks, I will be using this blog to catalog a variety of trends and technologies impacting higher education. As the demands in education change to meet the needs of a constantly evolving economic landscape, technology creates new opportunities to support those changes. I'll be exploring and writing about some of these tools and technologies here during this Instructional Technology HRD course at Idaho State University.

Be sure to stop back by to see what exciting tech lore I've come across...

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