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Google Wave Use Case in Education
"The wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host." Nearly 100 people are included in the wave, ranging from teachers to PhD students to IT professionals to high school students."
Groupsite.com - How Groups Make Things Happen (Formerly CollectiveX)
With Groupsites, people from a wide range of professional and social groups within companies, communities, non-profits, families and more are now able to instantly and easily communicate, share, network. Best of all, basic Groupsites are FREE to create and can be setup to be public; completely private and secure; or somewhere in between.
Dumb-dumb bullets
PowerPoint is not a neutral tool — it is actively hostile to thoughtful decision-making. It has fundamentally changed our culture by altering the expectations of who makes decisions, what decisions they make and how they make them. While this may seem to be a sweeping generalization, I think a brief examination of the impact of PowerPoint will support this statement.
Betting on the Real-Time Web
No one knows how the microblogging site and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution
SLakai Paris Conference Wrap-up
In early July Wolverine Island played host to members of the Sakai community who were interested in having an in-world event. The island was made available to non-U-M participants from July 1-3, the time period that the real world Sakai conference was being held in Paris.
Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance
Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook.
10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media
Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.
A Critical Examination of Blackboard's e-Learning Environment
Blackboard’s e–learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay I critically examine the structure of Blackboard’s two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. I identify ways in which the platforms both constrain and facilitate instructor–student and student–student interaction. I addition, I delineate features that sustain and challenge traditional power relationships in the classroom. I conclude with implications for online pedagogy and practical applications for instructors and students.
Backchannel via Twitter
First, however, I’ll point out that given the fairly broad definition I like to use for “classroom response system,” the use of Twitter in the classroom is most definitely on-topic for this blog!
The Way We Really Speak
The nutshell version is that conversation is much more like ballroom dancing than it is like sending and receiving computer messages. It's a process of speaking, receiving and processing feedback, clarifying, receiving more feedback, etc. In some sense, it's an iterative design process with really tight feedback loops.
Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Web camera's are good, mmmmkay?
It's so much nicer to be able to see and hear the people leaving you comments or messages and not just read their thoughts in plain, boring, black and white text. So how 'bout it? Use your webcam!
Google Wave Preview
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
Netiquette Rules
Netiquette is a slang word for network and online communication etiquette; the written and unwritten rules of etiquette that govern online interaction between users of Usenet, mailing lists, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, internet forums, and onli
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
This Messaging Fragmentation is Crazy
If one of these is the only way to reach somebody I need to reach, then I'll use it. But these are too many messaging systems, and they are becoming a productivity drain.
Should Colleges Continue to Host Email for Their Students?
According to a recent report (PDF), 20% of American colleges already outsource their email systems to commercial providers, and more plan to do so in the future.
4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business
Gartner released a report today that highlights the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use. Although Twitter was originally intended for communication among individuals, a number of organizations have begun to actively participate on the platform.
Naming Contest - Sakai at Brock
Congratulations to Rob Goldberg for suggesting the winning name! Rob came up with the name by rearranging the letters used to spell Sakai in Isaak. This name references both Brock University's namesake, Sir. Isaac Brock, and the Sakai Learning Management System that Brock's LMS is based on.
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