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Tablet PCs: Students Sound Off
"A quick, non-scientific poll conducted today suggests that the students prefer the Tablet PCs over paper and pen. "
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."
Lights! Camera! Beard!
"Amongst other things, beards are meant for stroking. Stroking induces thought. Thought prevents you from doing stupid things."
Students, that tweet may be your professor
""When teachers are everywhere, what is the role of the university?" Noah asked faculty members at Thursday's social media discussion."
Online Learning: More Than Technical Savvy
"... the introduction of online experiences for students should be consciously engineered to best capitalize on their readiness for independent learning, and that the progression into the online learning environment be intentionally built into the undergraduate curriculum rather than simply offering students an open menu of face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online courses."
2009 Shortlist - Horizon Project
"The Short List of Horizon topics, four in each Horizon, emerged from the first round of discussions and voting by the 2009 Advisory Board. The links on the right lead to the descriptions of the 12 topics, and also include the wiki-based discussion that fed into the final versions. "
Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT)
Founded in 1972, membership in the Society for Applied Learning Technology® is oriented to professionals whose work requires knowledge and communication in the field of instructional technology.
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."
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."
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."
Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech
"Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
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."
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009
Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are with technologies; how they perceive technology is affecting their learning experience; and their preferences for IT in courses. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 studies. It is based on quantitative data from a spring 2009 survey of 30,616 freshmen and seniors at 103 four-year institutions and students at 12 two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 62 students at 4 institutions; and review of qualitative data from written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2009 study also includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices.
UNC Chapel Hill - Sakai Pilot Final Report available
"We are pleased to announce that the Sakai Pilot Final Report is available for your review! The 74-page PDF (3.2 MB) provides a wealth of data collected during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009."
Internet addiction linked to ADHD, depression in teens
"Since adolescents cannot easily avoid computers, treatment for addiction cannot simply involve abstaining from the Internet, says Christakis. Parents, educators, and medical professionals need to identify high-risk children early on and monitor their Internet usage to prevent problem behavior from forming."
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.""
Twitter tool could help educators
"To bring order to this chaos and help make Twitter a more useful tool for educators, web developers at Purdue University unveiled a tool this week that would help Twitter members find the most popular and relevant tweets."
33 Highly Useful Presentation Tools
"After the terrific market response to 11 Highly Useful Presentation Tools for Sales and Marketing, we knew that a follow-on post was mandatory to help readers sell and market successfully online (and off). Here is a list of 33 more presentation tools we hope you’ll find helpful."
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