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My Canadian farmer friends will have the entire last week of December to contribute text, audio and video responses to my students’ questions. When we return on January 4th, students will spend the beginning of my computer lab class reviewing the Voicethread.

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An audience member would create a Google Wave and others in the audience would edit the wave during the presentation. The result would be a crowd-sourced write-up of the presentation: a transcript of key points and a record of audience comments.

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"Catch yourself doing something worth sharing. You don't have to tweet it or anything like that. Just start recognizing what's worth sharing."

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The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching.

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"Don’t kill off the VLE, for many staff it’s their only option. For some if they didn’t have the VLE they wouldn’t use anything else."

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"In the spring of 2009, the Liberal Studies Program within the College of Arts and Science partnered with Information Technology Services (ITS) to develop Simonides, a web-based student portfolio of tools that is unique in its flexibility and academic focus."

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The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

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The portfolios of this section are examples that highlight excellent documentation of student learning

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"Marist's Mark Van Dyke navigates higher education's technology maze with the help of the Sakai open source LMS"

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"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."

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The added richness of broader, international perspectives that these outside, informal students brought to the course was priceless for the official students in my class.

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Not all classes need to use the mobile computing environment (wireless notebook). After weighing the advantages and disadvantages, faculty interested in adopting or experimenting with notebooks, may find these points helpful:

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As the availbility of laptop computers and wireless access in NMU's classrooms has grown so have the opportunities for students' attention to "wander" away from classroom activites. The Educational Technology Resources and Policy Committee (ETRPC) and the Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee (TLAC) have collected from their colleagues the following syllabus statements, classroom techniques, philosophies, and concerns of cheating on the use of laptops to provide guidance to other fauclty.

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You may be teaching a large lecture and look out into your audience and see 10 or 20 students using laptops. Some may be using them to take notes, while others may have needs which require adaptive technology such as a laptop to perform well in a classroom setting.

The following are some strategies to help you set expectations and reduce distractions:

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The "myth of talent" is something that has gotten a lot of attention lately, both in mainstream media and education. Books like Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin as well as Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck have also poked holes in the idea of innate talent in favor of a focus on effort and practice.

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Well, it might not make you the most popular teacher, but if used well it can support colleagues and students with managing, tracking and even handing in homework. So, without much of a fanfare, and based purely on my thoughts after this morning here are Five Ways to use your VLE or Learning Platform to support homework.

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To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the Sloan-C community shares techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to both insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files.

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Twitter won't change your life, but it might make your job more fun and a little easier.

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