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Facebook gives power to the pupils - thestar.com
"Using Facebook, Twitter, handheld devices and other applications, classrooms at Purdue University can now post comments and online questions while professors deliver their lectures. Students can vote on messages posted by others, pushing collective questions to the top of the teacher's agenda. "
Hotseat at Purdue University
Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.
News: Evaluating Online Applicants - Inside Higher Ed
"We're pretty clueless on lots of this stuff," said David Mabe, assistant director of admissions at Davidson College. "As we are seeing more and more students from this background, I'm finding that my colleagues and I don't know how to talk about those students."
Hot Team: VoiceThread — Teaching and Learning with Technology
A summer 2009 hot team investigated VoiceThread, a Web-based application that allows users to create a shared presentation as a media album that visitors can asynchronously comment on by text, voice, or video. The presentation can include any form of digital media. VoiceThread allows an entire group conversation to be collected from anywhere in the world and then shared for playback in one place. The application is designed to be user-friendly and require minimum technical ability. VoiceThread allows instructors to tap into the trend toward collaboration, group interaction, and teamwork that is becoming the norm in education and the modern workplace. Faculty hot team member Dan Berman used VoiceThread in his Roman archaeology course. He created instructional slides, then required students to add comments. He then had students produce their own VoiceThreads.
Utah University Lifts Ban on YouTube - NYTimes.com
Brigham Young University, a Mormon Church institution where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.
US Census Press Releases
The tables also show that in 2008, 29 percent of adults 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree, and 87 percent had completed high school. That compares with 24 percent of adults who had a bachelor’s degree, and 83 percent who had completed high school in 1998.
Harvard Kennedy School - Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Votes for Open Access for Scholarly Articles
The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University voted overwhelmingly last week to make all faculty members’ scholarly articles publically available online at no charge, providing for the widest possible dissemination of faculty research and scholarship. The historic vote adds Harvard Kennedy School to a growing list of faculties at the university to endorse the initiative.
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