In mid-May I will be teaching a general education course, an introduction to educational technology. The audience is a mix of undergraduate students from across campus. While I am quite thrilled at this endeavor, I wanted to take a moment and tap into my learning community network. If you are, or consider yourself, an educational technologist, I need your help.

Can you provide a brief description of what an educational technologist is? I thought it would make sense to get a definition from people engaged in the practice on a daily basis.

So I put it to you:

1) What is an educational technologist?

3) What are the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology that you feel are important to consider?

Of course, any other insights you might want to provide are clearly welcome and encouraged.