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09 Feb, 2007

Web Applications for Collaboration

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Read/Write Web| Social Web

TechCrunch recently launched an online Web 2.0 dictionary site (go2web20.net).  It is fantastic.  I highly recommend checking it out.  For those in education you can click on the ‘Select Tag’ at the top and select collaboration below that (sorry no direct link).  It has some old time favorites, but there are a lot of new [...]

I have not had much time to post as of late, but have to pass this on!  I read a GREAT article today from Will Richardson.  He mentioned 10 things we need to ‘unlearn’ if we are to progress as teachers!  This is for those out there that aren’t already subscribed to Will’s blog.

We [...]

05 Feb, 2007

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Read/Write Web| Social Web

I came across this video thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger from Virgina Tech who posted it on Educause Connect.  You have to watch it!  It comes originally from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. 

Last week I posted an article in which I struggled to define my place with instructional technology [...]

01 Feb, 2007

ECAR Report Thoughts

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Google| Read/Write Web| Social Web

I just finished reading the ECAR report “The Future of Higher Education: A View from CHEMA” that was released last August.  Some of you may have read this already, but some may not have.  Anyway, it has some interesting quotes that I would like to point out. 
Second Wave of Technology Implementation
Seeing as I am [...]

01 Feb, 2007

Trailfire – Create Guided Internet Tours

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Read/Write Web| Social Web

What is Trailfire?
About a month ago I was looking for a way to annotate the web and came across Trailfire. In their own words.
Find what’s important on the web in an entirely new way. Learn what others have already discovered. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, cool lists, hot [...]

01 Feb, 2007

My Specialty – The Web

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Read/Write Web| e-Portfolio

A large re-organization of our group was recently announced. Up until this point in my job I have been both responsible for technical support for 8 departments, and instructional technology for those departments. Starting in about two weeks I will only be responsible for the technical needs of my departments (now 10). [...]


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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.