This morning I came across an interesting article about book publishing in the future. Apparently Penguin Books is doing an experiment called “We Tell Stories” with delivering six different books through six different medium channels over the next six weeks. The first two are already done… Google Maps for the first week and a Blogging/Twitter [...]
Neil Hokanson tagged me for a Meme to create a digital quilt of our passions. The rules for this Meme are as follows:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give [...]
This session was given by Susan Gibbons, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
Growing rhetoric about being ‘Student-Centered.’
So how do we become student centered.
Lots of resources out there to help us understand these students… lots from EDUCAUSE.
They did a study where they looked at all the user groups on campus and then make decisions about what [...]
There are some handouts (PowerPoint, Teacher Handout, Student Handout) are available here. You should really check these out, especially if you are charged with teaching others about social bookmarking.
A very interesting title… think about it. How can social bookmarking help students screen and use resources online to helping scholars collaborate about things that [...]
Using Video Streaming and Podcasting to Design Rich-Media Online Courses by Diane Zorn.
Goal is not to replicate classroom experience in an online course.
Course instructors are more like facilitators or Coaches. … All the course content is available online.
Teachers done have the control they think they have…
She uses MediaSite.com for her lessons. (Does anyone know [...]
Michael Wesch of Kansas State University just published two more AWESOME video’s that definetly deserve your time to take a look at. The first is about Students of Today. It is a startling look into what students are really using technology for… where students are really spending their time.
The second is about information and [...]
Here are a couple of video’s I just ran across that just confirm why changing the way we educate our students in important. Enjoy.
The Connected Classroom
When I Grow Up…
Yesterday I came across an article about the listed off ten ways to use a camera phone. As I read through this list I realized that a lot of these would be useful in education. It really got my brain turning too. The past couple of years have seen an explosion of cell [...]
Almost all of the students in classrooms K-12, and a large percentage of students in colleges are ‘digital natives,’ or students who grew up with ubiquitous access to digital media. These are those who can’t remember a time without e-mail and the internet. Because these students are intimately familiar with computers, the web, [...]
Digital Ethnography, the people that brought us the edublogger smash-hit “The Machine is Using Us,” has put out a new video entitled “The Internet has a Face.” From their post introducing the video:
“Before, we were reliant upon what the user has expressed through words, however, when one can read beyond words through visuals, the [...]