ELI7014.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Educause Learning Initiative produces a series of short handouts that provide concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies like podcasting, wikis, and “little clickers.” Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it matters to…
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Stephen’s Back
Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ One of my student bloggers from last semester’s course wrote recently and commented on the transitions that were happening with some of the eduboggers that he had been reading regularly. Stephen Downes’ hiatus and Will Richardson’s posts on some of the issues he was wrestling with were raising…
Inside Higher Ed: Duke’s Ever-Evolving iPod Initiative
Inside Higher Ed :: Duke’s Ever-Evolving iPod Initiative Duke continues to expand its use of iPods in teaching with over 100 faculty developing materials for use in courses. (Faculty members using the devices in class get there’s free from the university). After making news by giving iPods to all incoming students a couple of years…
I Passed College
Link to: Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/28/2006 | Colleges pushed to prove worth Some time ago, Gardner proudly announced that he had passed 8th grade math. Soon, students at the nation’s 3000 universities may be able to display a little logo on their facebook or myspace accounts proudly documenting that they had passed their grade 16…
Queen Anne Lace: Getting Rid of Cursive Writing?
Link to: Queen Anne Lace: Getting Rid of Cursive Writing? This was the first time it dawned on me that many students no longer can read cursive writing. (Other than their names!) Many teachers have stated to me that they no longer teach it because it is not tested on Virginia Standards of Learning. Their…
Second in the Swem Sessions
Here is the second “Swem Sessions” podcast where Troy Davis, Director of the Swem Media Center, Sharon Zuber, Associate Professor of English and I discuss the future of “visual literacy” at William and Mary. (Troy produced this session. ) Some of it is above the oxygen layer and pretty theoretical, but that’s what happens when…
e-Literate: Video Literacy
Link to: e-Literate: Video Literacy I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to use rich media in courses that traditionally have been print oriented. My own background in media–both audio and video–is pretty weak, so I don’t have much of the grammar and vocabulary to think as effectively about the possibilities as I might….
Blackboard Joins the Read/Write Web
I have to admit that I’ve become a bit of a BlackBoard slacker lately, even though a very large number of our faculty use it extensively. The open world of blogs, wikis and the read/write web has been much more intriguing to me than the black hole of BlackBoard. My slackerness will change pretty dramatically…
Example of Social Software in Action
CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » Social Software In Action (no real software required) I’ve often used the example of how quickly and effectively Larry Lessig’s book Free Culture was remixed into a dozen different forms. If I remember correctly, the audio version was available within a weekend after AKMA suggested splitting up the chapters and…
A Little Wabi Sabi Please
Link To: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Wikipedia and open source As the debate on the accuracy of the Wikipedia goes on, I am reminded about the wiki:wabi sabi world view ( the appreciation of the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete). Nicholas Carr, of IT should become boring, fame, continues to stir things…