20 Dec, 2008
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You Can't Afford to Lose Mobile Readers
– This is a great article about the importance of mobile devices… This has a real effect in Education realms as well!
19 Dec, 2008
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Stickler
– Good article about multi-lingual chats – “Chatting, Chatten or Chattare: Using a Multilingual Workspace for Language and Culture Learning”
18 Dec, 2008
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Ace Your Finals with Flashcards from Study Stack [Flashcards]
– Perhaps a little late for finals around here, but this looks promising.
National Survey of Student Engagement and Online Learning « Higher Education Management Group
– “Students taking most of their classes online report more deep approaches to learning in their classes, relative to classroom-based learners. [...]
17 Dec, 2008
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WWW.MAKAYAMA.COM
– This is a new iPhone application that streams live video. I thought it was especially good for this audience because of the content. It has lots of news, and France and Germany TV shows. Great for students learning a foreign language
New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc
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17 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: eBooks| iTouch/iPhone
Anyone that has read my blog for any amount of time knows that I am a big fan of digital books… but I am also a big fan of annotation and marking up documents and text. I especially love things that combine the two into one! That is the case with a recently [...]
16 Dec, 2008
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SlideShare Presents Your Newest Social App: PowerPoint
– As we move more toward social applications, this is a great additions. The ability to create powerpoint presentations in PowerPoint and directly share them online with SlideShare…
Awesome!
Steve Hargadon: Finding Conversations on the Web
– Steve created a great custom Google search engine that searches across [...]
15 Dec, 2008
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Memoreasy Lite
– This seems like a great application for learning! Uses voice to help students learn!
13 Dec, 2008
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Wired Campus: 3 of the Funniest E-Mail Messages From Students to Professors — and What They Say About Technology – Chronicle.com
– This has some fun emails in it from students, but what is really telling about this article is the comments.
A discussion starts up between PhD’s and Techie’s. They both seem to attack [...]
12 Dec, 2008
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Tar Heel Reader » Welcome
– This is a really great projects a professor did here on our campus. It is a huge collection of easy to read books make from Flickr pictures. I really like it and read a couple of books with my son off of my iPhone last night!
10 Dec, 2008
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Digiteen Dream Team
– This is the blog the students created to protest the shutting down of Lively.
You know… if nothing else, this really teaches the students some GREAT lessons on real life and what to do when something doesn’t go your way.
They will release the transcript later this week from what [...]