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A Few Simple Ways To Introduce Reluctant Colleagues To Technology
"I learned that a key to engaging people to move beyond their comfort zone is to first build a relationship — a reciprocal one. A relationship entails eliciting from others their hopes and dreams, along with sharing your own."
21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020
"Last night I read and posted the clip on '21 Things That Became Obsolete in the Last Decade'. Well, just for kicks, I put together my own list of '21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020'."
Open EdTech Summit 2009 - Visual Record
Photos of the meeting notes created by Rachel Smith.
Children who use technology are 'better writers'
"Our research results are conclusive - the more forms of communications children use the stronger their core literary skills."
Can The French Write English?: A Case Study of Technical Writing in France
"This article shows that technical writing is influenced by culture. English IT technical manuals written by English native-speakers were compared to manuals written by French technical writers to reveal typical errors in the use of punctuation, relative clauses, logical and time connectors. Further considerations of French culture and education will let us know the origins of those errors, and therefore, how to avoid them. "
Hot Teams at Penn State
"The ETS Hot Team process is the first step in helping ETS decide what new technologies or approaches we should invest time and energy into. The Hot Team concept was born out of the need to quickly evaluate an emerging technology or approach and to assess its viability for use in an educational setting."
ATutor Learning Content Management System
"ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS/LMS) and social networking environment designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom themes to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive, social learning environment."
Media Literacy Week - November 2-6, 2009
Media Literacy Week was conceived in 2006 under the name National Media Education Week to promote media literacy as a key component in the education of young people and to encourage the integration and the practice of media education in Canadian homes, schools and communities.
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."
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best
"Recent studies have shown that using online technology and creating communities of learning through digital connections has proved to be more useful to learning than most face-to-face encounters. So making the assumption that face-to-face is more effective can become prohibitive for our students."
P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University
"The mission of P2PU is to leverage the power of the Internet and social software to enable communities of people to support learning for each other. P2PU combines open educational resources, structured courses, and recognition of knowledge/learning in order to offer high-quality low-cost education opportunities. It is run and governed by volunteers."
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
"The challenge is not to bring technology into the classroom, he points out. The millennials, with their Facebook and their cell phones, have done that. The challenge is to capture the potential of technology to lower costs and improve learning for all."
Need4Feed
"Need4feed is a Twitter analytics tool that analyzes tweets within the context of a conference hash tag - in this case #heweb09. It uses an algorithm that examines responses to specific tweets, and builds a popularity ranking for that tweet. This ranking identifies those tweets that may have broad appeal for others using the same hash tag."
Twitter unused by most faculty, study says
"Three in ten college faculty surveyed earlier this summer said they use the micro-blogging site Twitter as an educational tool, but many educators remain skeptical of the social network and believe the site contributes to poor writing habits and will prove to be a "fad.""
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
"Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world."
The Big 3 Bailout and Education
Our industry is in the same shape as the auto industry but because we are not market based, (we have a captive audience) we are not feeling the effects the same way the Big 3 are. They have finally hit the economic wall. It’s brutally black and white for them…change or go out of business!
Blooms Taxonomy Tutorial FLASH - CCCS Faculty Wiki
The tutorials were created as interactive adaptations of the three Tutorial References listed on this page.
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