Link to: bgblogging: Learning from Teachers Outside My Realm One of the things that I enjoy most about my technology planning class is the opportunity to learn more about what’s happening in the world of K-12 teachers. Those of us in higher education read papers about the shaping of the Net Generation while our colleagues…
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More Resources for Teaching Poetry
Link to: Poetry Archive Gardner’s Donne A Day project demonstrated how podcasting could provide a new dimension to the study of poetry by archiving easily assessable MP3 recordings of the Renaissance poet. The Poetry Archive provides another resource as the “world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.” Try listening to Felix…
Humanities Labs
Link to: Inside Higher Ed :: We Need Humanities Labs Over the last couple of months, I’ve been a member of a fairly large faculty committee from Arts and Sciences charged with developing a strategy for allocating space that will be made available when the School’s of Education and Business get their own buildings. The…
The Rise and Fall of Educational Technology.
Link to: The Rise and Fall of Educational Technology: Did We Miss the Point? It’s taking a while to get caught up after the Thanksgiving break. Apparently, educational technology died while I was on vacation, and I missed it! There’s much in this long artlcle that I agree with–particularly reflecting on the class we’re finishing…
OK, No More Professional Development
Link to: 2 Cents Worth » OK, No More Staff Development David Warlick’s recent post suggests replacing the notion of a staff development plan for schools considering 1:1 computer or tablet initiatives with a more comprehensive concept of creating a staff development infrastructure. That infrastructure would include some key components of building ongoing communities of…
Wireless in the Classroom: Where’s the Kill Button?
Link to: The Rules of Distraction – Hey, you—with the laptop! Ignore your professor and read this instead. By Avi Zenilman This Slate story highlights an interesting dynamic going on at many universities. The academic computing and networking teams are working feverishly to bring wireless connectivity to every classroom at the same time as faculty…
Blogging and the Brain
Link to: Blogging and the Brain | Messer Family Jon has uncovered a very interesting article from the Eide Neurolearning Blog suggesting that maintaining a weblog can encourage the growth of neural paths that may: improve critical and analytical ability, promote creative, intuitive and associational thinking, provide outstanding examples of attorney’s philosophers and academic engaged…
Media Literacy and General Education: Test Podcast
Troy Davis, the new director of the Swem Media Center, and I have just finished making a test podcast which we hope will become the first in a series of conversations we’ll be having with folks in the William and Mary community who are interested in bringing the power of this tool our students. Speaking…
Screenagers Provide Internet Content
Link to: The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries – New York Times Add “screenager” to the lexicon of terms to describe the current generation of K-12 students who are finding new ways to use the internet to express themselves as “content providers”. Using the cheap digital tools that now help chronicle…
More On Digital Cheating
Link to: The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/27/2005 — 02 I first saw the announcement of these electronic study guides and naively thought of how valuable it would be to students to have audio excerpts of some of the key parts of the literature they were studying. I keep making these mind trips back to the…
