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Archive for December, 2008

20 Dec, 2008

Interesting Items – December 20, 2008

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Shared Google Reader Items

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

Interesting Items – December 19, 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

Interesting Items – December 18, 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

Interesting Items – December 17, 2008

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Shared Google Reader Items

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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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

Interesting Items – December 16, 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

Interesting Items – December 15, 2008

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Memoreasy Lite
– This seems like a great application for learning! Uses voice to help students learn!

13 Dec, 2008

Interesting Items – December 13, 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

Interesting Items – December 12, 2008

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Shared Google Reader Items

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

Interesting Items – December 10, 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 [...]


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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.