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Argumentative is software for manipulating Argument Maps - the structural and visual representation of arguments.
Argument maps help to make decisions clearer or assist in formulating a position on an issue.
Instant messaging (IM) services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger make it possible for you to chat in real-time with friends, colleagues, and students. Google integrated chat into its email service, Gmail, in 2006, and even Facebook added a chat feature in early 2008. So the chances are good that your students will have accounts on one or more of these services. If you do as well, then you can simply let your students know your account name (so they can find you) and when you will be available to chat with them. Julie indicates that her students have always been respectful of her status when she is logged in, and students only chat with her when it is their designated time.
In this post, you'll get a quick introduction to Google Docs as well as some "lessons learned" by yours truly. In the comments, I hope others will share their experiences using Google Docs in the classroom.
So over the past couple of months I have been writing here about my use of Twitter in the classroom. The first post garnered some much interest that I ended up writing a follow-up one. In both cases though I wrote primarily around the specific ways I used Twitter, or my reasons for doing so, without actually covering the how-to aspect. To be sure there are several tutorials (these two videos for instance), and an introduction from the Common Craft show, so what I thought I would cover here are the logistics of setting it up in an educational space.
It's final exam time for most of us in higher education. We are scrambling to give final exams, grade student work, submit grades, and leave for the winter break with just a little bit of sanity and a few working brain cells. Then it hits: the excuses for missing or late work.
As I'm a little more than a month out from the semester's end, I've been reflecting on different aspects of the semester: things that worked well, things that didn't work at all, and things that could be tweaked for the future. In particular, I've been musing on how I integrated social media into my classes.
When Google Wave first burst on the scene in 2009, little information was available to learn how to use this tool. Now, tutorials, resources and tips abound, but a reader must wade through the maze of information to find appropriate tools for teachers and students. We've done that work for you with this list of twenty-five tips, ideas and resources that may galvanize educational uses for the Wave.
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When Google Wave first burst on the scene in 2009, little information was available to learn how to use this tool. Now, tutorials, resources and tips abound, but a reader must wade through the maze of information to find appropriate tools for teachers and students. We’ve done that work for you with this list of twenty-five tips, ideas and resources that may galvanize educational uses for the Wave.
The integration of technology into an English graduate seminar classroom, in other words, poses questions about how we're training the next group of scholars, about our pedagogy, and about how we've done things for the last X-number of years. This is not to say that it's a bad thing. In fact, it might be a very, very good thing. But I think it underscores why we had such a hard time coming up with this list and why it will be difficult for faculty to integrate the new tools into their graduate seminars.
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The integration of technology into an English graduate seminar classroom, in other words, poses questions about how we’re training the next group of scholars, about our pedagogy, and about how we’ve done things for the last X-number of years. This is not to say that it’s a bad thing. In fact, it might be a very, very good thing. But I think it underscores why we had such a hard time coming up with this list and why it will be difficult for faculty to integrate the new tools into their graduate seminars.
What is clear from the four case studies is that Twitter can function as both a one- to-many or broadcast technology (case study 1) as well a many-to-many or participatory technology that supports the creation and development of personal learning networks and a range of dialogic interactions (case studies 2,3 and 4).
This resource looks at the key social media technologies and tools and how they can be used for learning and performance enhancement
The complete list from Google
What is the potential? Well, clearly it has some pretty far-reaching possibilities in the use of collaborative education and group work in computer-enabled classrooms. But I've been thinking about some other school implementations that could be possible:
Overall, it is clear that Google Wave has potential to be very useful in the education system, particularly as a real-time collaborative note-taking tool. Three students experimented with just that in a lecture; the resulting notes were said to be "more complete" than if Wave hadn't been used.
Google argues that its new Google Wave system could replace e-mail by blending instant messaging, wikis, and image and document sharing into one seamless communication interface. But some college professors and administrators are more excited about Wave's potential to be a course-management-system killer.
If you're wondering what use Google's new Wave tool might have for teaching, one online-learning leader has an answer: combining classes from different colleges.
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group.
For Google Wave users who require to collaborate and co-edit a document, spreadsheet or presentation via Google Wave simultaneously or concurrently, here's a workaround to allow integration of Google Wave and Google Docs. Integration of Google Docs into Google Wave allows users to use only single platform and single logon or login (when using same Google account).
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