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Dr. Sarah Glasco – Instructor of French, Foreign Languages, Elon University

Background – everything focuses on collaboration. Not just one way learning, but teachers learning from students and students learning from teachers.
The world is changing, and while it has it’s downfalls, it also the ability to bring us together in new ways. Never [...]

Presenters:

Dr. Paula Hudson – Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program – Elon University
Rick Palmer – Instructional Designer, Instructional Design & Development – Elon University

Example Blog They Used in Classroom:

Tests and Measures

Possible Assignment Candidate’s for Blogging

A flat assignment – an assignment that is boring. Something that students hate to learn and teachers hate to [...]

Taught by Edward F. Gehringer from NC State (Associate Professor of Computer Science)
Advantages of Wiki’s

Co-editing: Howework done on wiki’s promote collaboration between students
Co-assembly: Different people can contribute different parts
Write more than a traditional word document
Don’t have to worry about location and version (it’s all online and available)

Pitfalls

Other’s can “deface” wiki pages (bots) – Precreate [...]

For those who don’t know Michael Wesch, he is the author of the classic Web 2.0 video’s on YouTube that I wrote about a while ago.
This presentation was really great. A lot of it was taken from his “A Vision of Students Today” video. If you haven’t see it.. start out with [...]

So today I am attending a conference at Elon University. It is their 5th annual summer “Innovation in Instruction” conference.
You can see the the schedule here. I will post updates throughout the day. This is my schedule.

Lessons from New Guinea for the Global Village and the Crisis of [...]

I just wish they would do one near me… maybe some day… Perhaps I can create my own curriculum…

Google Teacher Academy – Chicago
Chicago, IL
September 24, 2008
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Applications Due: August 24, 2008http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html ——————————————————–

We are pleased to announce that another round of Google’s FREE training [...]

Google has been great at coming out with new applications for the iPhone/iTouch. Last night they announced a new service that I think is really useful: a specialized interface for the iPhone/iTouch for Google Translate.
With the ubiquitous ability of the iPhone, and high speed 3G connection, this is a great find for any student [...]

Okay… It has been a couple of months, and it is just killing me. Almost every day I see something that I want to pass along, so I am going to end m Hiatus and write a couple of blog posts now and again.
I have been working on two conference proposals, so [...]