February 5, 2011
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Two resources created by Google have popped onto my radar screen this week that will certainly be valuable for educators; Google Body and Google Art Project. Google Art Project is a series of interactive virtual tours of some of the … Continue reading
February 3, 2011
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Three academic studies are cited in this article about Twitter, and how it can increase student engagement, enhance social presence, and help develop peer support models among students through the formation of personal learning networks. Amplify’d from spotlight.macfound.org A small … Continue reading
January 30, 2011
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Two points from this article. First, social software enables learning conversations to occur outside of the classroom, not only between students, but also between students and the larger community. Second, when students taking ownership of their own tools, they are … Continue reading
January 29, 2011
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I like this case study. It’s not from post-sec, but K-12, and the interview with the educators was done by Wikispaces so they have an interest in promoting wiki technology in a positive light. However, that said, it is still … Continue reading
January 27, 2011
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Qwiki looks like a very interesting platform. It’s like Wikipedia in that it is like an encyclopedia of general knowledge, only instead of the knowledge being constructed primarily by contributors, it is created by machines, pulling all these little bits … Continue reading
January 24, 2011
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This post is in regards to the recent $2 billion dollars that the US gov’t has set aside for the creation of Open Educational Resources. A significant shot in the arm for OER’s, except for on small glitch – the … Continue reading
January 17, 2011
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Good move by Wikipedia to help develop tools educators can use. By engaging the academic & teaching community, Wikipedia could actually become a much more substantive and “credible” resource. Plus by engaging educators in the act of editing Wikipedia and … Continue reading
January 7, 2011
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I am working with an Instructor on a project in Desire2Learn in which she wants to give students the ability to comment and respond to any piece of content in the course, similar to a blog commenting system. D2L does … Continue reading
December 16, 2010
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Delicious is dead. Er, sorry. Delicious is in the sunset column. I don’t know if I could write a better eulogy to Delicious than Marshall has at ReadWriteWeb. He hit on so many points and ways in which the service … Continue reading
September 14, 2010
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I’ve signed up for Personal Learning Environments Networks & Knowledge, a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) from Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Rita Kop and Dave Cormier. I am not sure how much I will be able to participate, considering I … Continue reading