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Absolute and Relative URLs
Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is a fancy name for address. Each file on the Internet has a unique URL.
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Free Printable Graphic Organizers
"A picture is worth 1000 words." When students are juggling new concepts, a graphic organizer can be an excellent teaching aide.
Why do they work?
Random facts are quickly lost. However, the brain's ability to store pictures is unlimited. And since the brain likes to chunk information, the graphic organizer complements the way the brain naturally works.
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CRM Pushing into New Areas of Higher Ed
According to a recent survey by Datamonitor, only a third of colleges and universities have any sort of CRM solution in place. As the number of high school graduates continues to drop, however, increased competition for students will drive more CRM adoption. Datamonitor predicts a steep CRM adoption rate in higher education over the next six to 24 months.
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Alverno College DDP
This first-of-its-kind, web-based system enables each Alverno student — anyplace, anytime — to follow her learning progress throughout her years of study. It helps the student process the feedback she receives from faculty, external assessors and peers. It also enables her to look for patterns in her academic work so she can take more control of her own development and become a more autonomous learner.
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U. of Michigan Library Installs 'ATM of Books'
Just about any digitized, out-of-copyright book from Michigan’s collection can be printed and bound on the spot. Printing takes five to seven minutes, and the cost is about $10 per book.
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Peer Pressure Is Motivating Professors to Podcast Their Lectures
The survey was small — only 77 professors — but the vast majority listed peer pressure as a reason why they started podcasting their courses. And less than 10 percent of them said they felt the effort was increasing the academic performance of students.
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Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free
In protest of what he says are textbooks’ intolerably high prices — and the dumbing down of their content to appeal to the widest possible market — Professor McAfee has put his introductory economics textbook online free. He says he most likely could have earned a $100,000 advance on the book had he gone the traditional publishing route, and it would have had a list price approaching $200.
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Schools respond to iPhone's popularity
Responding to the iPhone’s popularity among students, many universities now are rolling out initiatives that aim to take advantage of its potential as a converged, mobile learning device. The timing is good for such initiatives, because earlier this month, Apple Inc. moved to expand the use of its iPhone by unveiling software intended to allow third-party developers to build new iPhone applications.
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Professor Uses Web 'Widgets' to Share Course Content
Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he’s teaching into a series of modular “widgets” that others can easily drop into their own Web pages.
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Hidden College Costs: Rising Fees
Faced with rising costs, decreased funding and laws in many states designed to keep public universities from hiking up tuition, many state school systems are making up for budget shortfalls by tacking on fees for everything from "technology" to "energy." In some cases, these fees amount to several times a school's base tuition.
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Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives
Blackboard has become the Microsoft of higher-education technology, say many campus-technology officials, and they don't mean the comparison as a compliment. To them the company is not only big but also pushy, and many of them love to hate it.
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Wikis, polls and blogs new features on replacement for WebCT
Across campus, buzz has been steadily spreading about a new service provided by the university called Sakai. From a link on the university homepage to a Web address listed in various course syllabi, Sakai has surely entered the university's consciousness.
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MemeMoir - Wikis for academia
Scientific wiki solves the 'Who Wrote What' problem. End of anonymity - Next generation wiki links every word to its author.
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WikiGenes - Evolutionary Knowledge
Search thousands of genes, chemicals, pathologies and much more... A wiki with strong authorship for science and academia.
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SLedCC Resources
Here are links to presentations, handouts etc from talks at SLedCC 2008 in Tampa. If you gave a presentation and we haven’t linked to your resources please drop a line to intellagirl at gmail dot com and we’ll add it right away.
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Scholar Blogging
I like situations where we end up with “wins” on multiple levels — students thinking critically about their intellectual development, faculty more actively participating in the advising expereicne, and us getting honest feedback in a real world use of the technology.
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Blogs Keep Students Connected
"At first I was against blogging," said sophomore Bree Gant, a film production major. "I thought it was just another way for people to whine and get attention. But I realized as a writer, blogging is a good opportunity to not only journal, but get your opinion and writing out there and get some feedback from both experienced writers and interested readers."
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Instructional Technology Services - San Diego State University
As you can see, we’ve rolled out a new ITS website. It’s a work in progress, and we look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions.
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A Camel Is a Horse Designed by Committee: Benefits of Outsourcing Web Design
Learn how National University, using an established third-party design firm, eliminated subjective internal disputes regarding design and organization, while retaining control over content and server-side technology. With templates flexible enough to accommodate six disparate entities, National University was able to accommodate a wide range of content while remaining extensible.
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