tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71870962011-04-21T18:55:28.944-07:00About instructional technology, wireless networks, online learning, and other related topics.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02762845715048780399noreply@blogger.comBlogger1751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187096.post-56626553419430962332008-03-25T13:11:00.000-07:002008-03-25T13:11:05.246-07:00

Laurie Fendrich muses on the composition of Brainstorm: Fendrich University . If you were to create your own university from the ground up, what would it look like?

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Fascinating discussion on the future of HE in our state. These are loose thoughts that will be developed further later. Can we truly have a one-system network of colleges? Can we tear down the silos? If so, how will we do it? Espeically afater ew've been pitted against each other for over 100 years (or even decades)?Self-paced and service learning? but what about engagement?is education a right

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My brother was able to get these pictures of an albino deer near his house in southern Virginia.Here she comes!Note the normal colored deer next to her for contrast.On this one you can see the pink eyes.

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From Miami University:Online courses: how to encourage interactivity with new (often cheap or free ) tools.The approach they're taking is that they are addressing problems with the technology, not finding a problem for the tech. to address. That's an important distinction.Hey, here's a concept: poll your online students to see what kind of access they have!! 85% have high speed access in home.

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ODCE Keynote:Education the most important issue in attractiving new businesses: should tell that to the tax-cut folks!INitiatives:freeze tuition for 2 yrs.+ financial aidChoose Ohio first program (sounds ike Promise for STEM in Ohio)emphasis on research scholars (not a bad idea!)With great opportunities come great responsibility: we need to fulfill the trust that the state has given us. In shorty

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I've always said I love to learn. But I've recently discovered that this is not always true. I love to learn things I'm good at. If I'm not very good at learning them or doing them, I'm a much less enthusiastic learner. I've always loved to read and do academic work, partly because I was always good at it. But art? Music? Physical education? Forget it. I've had enough of being picked last for

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I'm relaunching my professional blog so that I'll have a place to refer to in my RSS training and a place to put resources that I find that i can share with my colleagues. Recently I've been more focused on my personal blog, and I've been missing the professional contact that I've re-discovered with Twitter and via my other professional blogs. Expect to see a link to my de.li.cio.us tags and a

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Something fun: ?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ?? AthenaTake this quiz!Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

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Interesting bit from the Teaching, Learning and Technology group: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". It's a reminder that no significant difference findings mean just what they say: there's no significant difference. Is there a difference? Maybe. Is there no difference? Maybe. But we simply cannot tell the effect from the research indicated. Just as we cannot overstate what

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I would really love to assess iPhones for instruction like the folks in this article are doing. Wish I could have the money and the staff for rigorous research on it. Oh well, since I can't, I'll have to drool over an iPhone myself and closely watch their findings.

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University of Delaware Responds to Classroom Clickers

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Montillation of Traxoline - Do We Test What Is Important? This piece reminds us that spitting back is not necessarily learning. Students can demonstrate "knowledge" without having interacted with the content, and, what's worse, without real knowledge.

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The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: A Professor's Plea for More Games in the Classroom

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This is me!!IT Trends: Opinion

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A Higher Education organization in support of professional and staff development

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The Chronicle: 1/5/2007: 10 Trends to Watch in Campus Technology

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For Some, Laptops Don't Compute - washingtonpost.com

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Decisions Regarding exemptions to the DMCA regarding instructional use of media

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Jay Mathews - What Are the Best Education Blogs? - washingtonpost.comShould be interesting.

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del.icio.us

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Fetch

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The 19 Best Elearning Blogs - Word of Mouth Blog

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I wonder if this will live up to its hype, and, more importantly, how much useful will transfer to our level. eSchool News online - 'School of the Future' opens doors

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My blog is worth $2,822.70.How much is your blog worth?

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GuelphSocietyG.pdf (application/pdf Object)Worth a look; might explain Roman's conundrum.

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Granted, this is a self-selected group. It's interesting, though, to see the podcasts that they are creating as well as the ideas for creating other podcasts.techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders

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similar to Camtasia but freeware. SourceForge.net: CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder

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Eide Neurolearning Blog: Brain of the Blogger

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GCSU's story of how they're using iPods.

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How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses contains an excellent rubric to help professors self-evaluate the amount and quality of interaction in an online course.

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Lawrence Lessig on Copyright

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eSchool News online - Five (not-so) easy pieces of technology integration Thse are the five essential pillars of technology integration. A good model to guide.

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Here's some reassuring news for online courses: the techniques remain the same. All we need to do is to determine the best ways to translate this experience to an online format. Newhouse A1

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eSchool News online - New course teaches instructional gaming This might provide some good ideas and research on gaming.

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Techlearning > > How To: Find Good Sources of Online Images > March 15, 2006

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eSchool News online - Georgia school displays iPod ingenuityn Some interesting ideas for use of iTunes U and iPods in general.

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SAGE Journals Online -- Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal A New interdisciplinary journal dedicated to games and animation.

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7 Principles of Online EvaluationPhoenix College : Teaching and Learning Resources

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USATODAY.com - iPods now double as study aids The first positive I've seen on podcasting.

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eSchool News online - Study: 'Power Users' drive pedagogy I wonder if this is really happening as the perception indicates, and, if so, if it's a good or a bad thing, or just a thing thing.

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Great resource for my talk on Friday. Looks like games are starting to come into their own!Innovate - Teachers' Perceptions of Video Games: MMOGs and the Future of Preservice Teacher Education

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Great source for information on Wikis. freewiki.com

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Personal Response Systems (Clickers) (Bowdoin, IT, ERD Projects)

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Interesting article with links to other resources on Digital Storytelling.

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This is the classroom of the future at Washington STate University, funded in 2003 by Boeing. One article I saw referred to it as a cross between Ikea and the Starship Enterprise. While I'm not sure I hold with that characterization, I think it's an interesting one. I wonder if this is really how kids will learn in the future. I kind of doubt it. Even at Marietta, where we have a 12:1 student:

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An Interesting article in CNET news about blogs in high schools and colleges. Great resource for Facebook controversy too.

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An interesting view from both sides of the grant-writing divide (both writers and reviewers), with particular emphasis to the quant. vs. qual debate. I'd like some time to ruminate before I blog more on this one.

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Most (57%) teenagers are now creating content online in one form or another, either by blogging or creating web pages, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project report. While I think this can be a great way to get kids involved, I worry about some of the issues related to the privacy and the information that these kids are sharing. "Don't post it on the Internet unless you would post

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Another one from Kathy Schrock. This is a list of electronic tools for the online classroom, targeted toward K-12 but applicable for other ages. These could also be quite useful in face-to-face classrooms. And another thing, I just realized that BlogThis! is no longer copying the URL. No big deal, but it is a bit annoying.

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A session on emerging technologies that was highly recommended. From last month's EDUCAUSE conference.

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50 Free tools to make computing easier from Techlearning.com

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A game that encourages peace, disavowing violence. What a neat idea!

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Take that, Mrs. Deadrick! I got a perfect score on 8th grade math. Hehehe!!You Passed 8th Grade MathCongratulations, you got 10/10 correct!Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

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http://mediachannel.org/blog/book/print/929

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NDSU Geology Explorer Learning Environment - Training

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Videogames for college

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Could be useful for elementary school math teachers. mathFROG - Fun Resources & Online Games

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An interesting view that should be useful for us as we re-examine our CMS choice. Blackboard vs. Moodle

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Sorry, I missed the beginning of the event. Carol Vallone talking now...I certainly hope that this videostream is not symptomatic of what we can expect with the merger! I've barely been able to hear one whole sentence. Methinks this might be a bad omen...BB and WebCT will continue to compete against one another till the merger takes place. That was the most disappointing audioconference I've ever

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Marietta now has a subscription to The Teaching Professor. You can log in from this post, but remmeber that you need to be registered first.

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Interesting Article about student ownership (more accurately, the lack thereof) on college campuses.

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Looks like a great resource!

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A special edition of the Innovate! online interactive journal that focuses on educational uses of games: Innovate - August/September 2005 Volume 1, Issue 6 It's got all the big names in the educational gaming arena. Enjoy!

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Another great presentation from the WebCT Impact 2005 cnference in San Francisco. Wooing the Skeptics-Presented by Sandy Bogus @ University of Houston-Clear Lake

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An overview of blogs in academe. It made me think of my friend John's and my breakfast conversation over the utility of RSS in educational settings. He doesn't see the point. I think there are reasons to use them, but I'll need to investigate further to find out the best omes. Pito's Blog: RSS in the Academic/Research/Scientific community

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I'm at the WebCT IMPACT! 2005 conference in San Francisco and getting a bunch of great ideas. Right now I'm in a tablet initiative session to see how it's gone for them. Advantages of Tablets: Portability (no forgotten materials)Convergence (everything in the same place)Functionality (full PC)Simplicity (handwriting) Bluetooth (between Mac and tablet)Voice dictation (works well for the presenter)

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This article (Video-game camps target at-risk youth) discusses a new program that's highlighting an existing problem: the problem of the representation in video games. I've developed an evaluation tool for educational softwarwe that addresses these issues, but unfortunately, not enough is being done about this, even ten years later. When are we going to learn?

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How do you rate? 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

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http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile/smile.php?activityID=623

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The Smile program. Registration is free and you can make these available on the web for your students. http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile

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Language Learning and Technology Journal

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Here is an example of a clip I recorded with the AudioPortfolios software. Pretty neat, huh?

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Dennie Hoopingarner has a site http://clear.msu.edu:16080/dennie/ChineseXP/ that explains how to change the language support on Windows XP. It's focused toward Chinese, but can easily be adapted to other languages.

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Learning Games Initiative: Game to Teach, Game to Learn

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A Great WebQuest for teaching information literacy skills. Evaluating Web Sites: Teacher Page

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Looks like this will be a great source for ideas about how to use handhelds in the classroom. PDA Classroom- Your Handheld Teaching Source

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AJET 20(2) Williams and Jacobs (2004) - exploring blogs as learning spaces in higher education

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Lots of resources from students and faculty. Instructional Services Home Page

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Here's a current article about a technology similar to the TurningPoint system that we saw yesterday. I'd love to hear comments about this. ABC News: Students Use Clickers to Help Guide College Lectures

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The Use of Palmtop Compuers for Learning: A Revieww of the Literature ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

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100% long distance online (students physically separated from instructor and perhaps each other) includes web elements, videoconferencing and audioconferencing. Challenges: Time differences (especially when students from more than 2 countries), student support (i.e., registration) Hybrid Course (more and more...best of classroom teaching and online activities...scheduling can

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Tim Xie, from Cal State Long Beach, shared the following ideas with the Modern Language faculty here at Marietta College.Now CALL is being called TELL (Technology ENhanced Language Learning).Aurolog is a technology that recognizes and appropriately responds to language learners. It's called TELL me more, a pun on the verb "tell" (because the learners speak to the program) and the concept of

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Coursesites.blackboard.com

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Trackstar: A specialized search for language educators.

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Tim suggests assigning tasks to be accomplished when you direct students to websites. This is similar to Bernie Dodge's idea of using webquests. It also supports Chickering and Gamson's "Time on Task" principle of good practice.Tim, I'm glad you're here! You've inspired a lot of thoughts. I'm going to have to get back into language teaching. I miss it.

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No Nahuatl, but now at least I can learn conversational Quechua online. You never know when you'll run into Atahuallpa and need to get your butt out of a sling. Free online language courses. I'm really looking forward to that, but I doubt I'll run into many Inca that I can practice the language with.

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This clearinghouse is a resource outlining methods and practices that are based in research and proven to be effective. It'll come in handly for those struggling with the NCLB requirements. What Works Clearinghouse

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NYPL Digital Gallery

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Especially this time of year, I think many of us can relate to this one! Inside Higher Ed :: Views

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This seems like it would be a good list. Unfortunately, they only list one copyright myth, and my Italian's not up to snuff to figure out where the others are. But it seems to be a good start. Portalino - Seven online copyright myths (3/3) A snip from the page: Possunt quia posse videntur ~ (Latin: They can because they think they can.) 7) "E-mail is not copyright protected once it is sent."

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Even though ithis is oreinted toward cmmercial websties, there are lessons for us educators here too. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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This thread on the Ask Dr. C forum has some ideas about how to prevent cheating and ways that we can re-do our assessment strategies to encourage active learning and long-term retention. It also brings ideas for how we can decrease our reliance on objective tests that are so open to student dishonesty. When an objective test must be given, there are ways to minimize cheating in a completely

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Kate Britt's excellent collection of resources for online learners. Kate is a Dr. C, so most of her comments and resources are directed toward WebCT (a boon for us at MC), but good design is good design no matter the platform, and you can take hte principles and apply them to your own CMS and online class. PinkFlamingo's Resource URLs for Educators, Students, Writers, Webpage Designers

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Although the FLAG is designed for science, math, engineering, and technology instructors, there are several techniques that can be adapted to any content area. I thihnk you'll find this quite a useful site. CL-1: Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)

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The emphasis here is on using CATs to gather information related to the use fo technology in the classroom. There are also adaptation for using the CATs in a technology-facilitated setting (such as an online class or other diistance learning setting. Fortunately,WebCT offers many tools that area readily adaptable to CATs, such as anonymous surveys and discussion fora. Classroom Assessment

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An overview from the University of Hawai'i with a step-by-step approach to implementing Angelo and Cross' Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs).CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

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A frequently-updated list of articles relevant to distance education (especially online education) as it relates to higher education. Distance-Educator.com: Higher Education Issues, News, Reviews, Resources, and Tools :: Technology, Teaching, News, Research

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Build a Blog Workshop @ ODCE 2005

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Protecting Against Identity Misrepresentation and Theft

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