3.02.2010
Tools and Techniques for Just in Time Faculty Development
Check out this great SlideShare Presentation. Very helpful for ideas in ways to connect to students.
SLN Quality Matters Initiative
What SUNY Learning Network will do for us in regards to Quality Matters.
SLN QM Iniitiative
View more presentations from Alexandra M. Pickett.
2.25.2010
SUNY Learning Network Instructional Design Summit ...watch the livestream
This is a great way to recharge your batteries regarding teaching and learning and all aspects of Instructional design within the SUNY system. Join Us!
The three ways to tune in are:
1. via channel link http://www.livestream.com/slnsolsummit2010
2. via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://livestream.com/slnsolsummit2010
2. via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://livestream.com/slnsolsummit2010
3. via summit blog page: http://slnsolsummit2010.edublogs.org/2010/02/06/summit-livestream/
The best one for your watching station will be via the channel link page. #1 above.
Adobe has come along with a product to rival Google docs
Buzzword is often compared with Google Docs, so it might be useful to discuss the relationship between them - both the similarities and the differences. The short version goes like this:
Similarities:
Free web apps. Buzzword and Google Docs are both driving the move to on-line applications, and are rapidly gaining popularity and market share.
Comments and Collaboration. Ubiquitous access to your documents enable better collaboration, and both tools have useful commenting functionality to support this.
Buzzword vs. Google Docs
Similarities:
Free web apps. Buzzword and Google Docs are both driving the move to on-line applications, and are rapidly gaining popularity and market share.
Comments and Collaboration. Ubiquitous access to your documents enable better collaboration, and both tools have useful commenting functionality to support this.
Buzzword vs. Google Docs
Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters
book innerds to look at
Book to read ...Tancer, a search-engine data miner, takes a look at our culture by evaluating the millions of search queries on the Internet. He crunches the numbers to quantify our desires, our fears, our quest for knowledge, and our aspirations. From porn to prom dresses to politics, the content of our search queries reveals much about our private thoughts that we would not reveal to loved ones, friends, or a stranger taking a survey. His lists include the top “fear of” searches; fear of intimacy and fear of rejection were ranked high, while the fear of public speaking, usually sited as number one, came in at number nine. “How to tie a tie” just beat out “how to have sex” in the how-to category, with “how to levitate” clocking in at number six! For businesses, searches can reveal surprising information that dispels assumptions about customer behavior, such as the seasonality of clothing purchases. Tancer brings humor, clarity, and insight to the trends that are revealed by the ways we seek out and consume information on the Internet. --David Siegfried
more info on Amazon
Book to read ...Tancer, a search-engine data miner, takes a look at our culture by evaluating the millions of search queries on the Internet. He crunches the numbers to quantify our desires, our fears, our quest for knowledge, and our aspirations. From porn to prom dresses to politics, the content of our search queries reveals much about our private thoughts that we would not reveal to loved ones, friends, or a stranger taking a survey. His lists include the top “fear of” searches; fear of intimacy and fear of rejection were ranked high, while the fear of public speaking, usually sited as number one, came in at number nine. “How to tie a tie” just beat out “how to have sex” in the how-to category, with “how to levitate” clocking in at number six! For businesses, searches can reveal surprising information that dispels assumptions about customer behavior, such as the seasonality of clothing purchases. Tancer brings humor, clarity, and insight to the trends that are revealed by the ways we seek out and consume information on the Internet. --David Siegfried
more info on Amazon
Heutagogy: we really interact in this class. in my other class the professor just talks and talks and talks ...
When you take on learning you come to own it.
In education, heutagogy, a concept coined by Stewart Hase of Southern Cross University, is the study of self-determined learning. The notion is an expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy, and it is possible to mistake it for the same. However, there are several differences between the two that mark the one from the other.[1]
Heutagogy places specific emphasis on learning how to learn, double loop learning, universal learning opportunities, a non-linear process, and true learner self-direction. So, for example, whereas andragogy focuses on the best ways for people to learn, heutagogy also requires that educational initiatives include the improvement of people's actual learning skills themselves, learning how to learn as well as just learning a given subject itself. Similarly, whereas andragogy focusses on structured education, in heutagogy all learning contexts, both formal and informal, are considered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heutagogy
In education, heutagogy, a concept coined by Stewart Hase of Southern Cross University, is the study of self-determined learning. The notion is an expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy, and it is possible to mistake it for the same. However, there are several differences between the two that mark the one from the other.[1]
Heutagogy places specific emphasis on learning how to learn, double loop learning, universal learning opportunities, a non-linear process, and true learner self-direction. So, for example, whereas andragogy focuses on the best ways for people to learn, heutagogy also requires that educational initiatives include the improvement of people's actual learning skills themselves, learning how to learn as well as just learning a given subject itself. Similarly, whereas andragogy focusses on structured education, in heutagogy all learning contexts, both formal and informal, are considered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heutagogy
2.19.2010
International Online Collaborating mentioned in Campus Technology !
Collaborative Learning Across the Miles
American college breaks down the barriers to create online distance learning courses with an exiled Lithuanian university
By Bridget McCrea02/03/10
Establishing ties between domestic and international colleges is one thing, but when the overseas institution has been forced into exile by its home country, the situation becomes a bit more complex.
SUNY Ulster of New York learned this about a year ago when it first collaborated with European Humanities University (EHU). The latter is a Belarusian university that was founded in Minsk in 1992 but was, according to the school, "forcibly closed" by the government in 2004. According to the EHU Web site, the school reopened in Vilnius in 2005 and was granted the status of a Lithuanian university in 2006. Read on...
2.14.2010
Livescribe ! The pen that records what you are writing and saying
Nicoline Kiwiet got a mini-grant to use these Live Scribe pens with her Chemistry class and she brought one by to try. It is a pen with a camera that watches what you write and it has a mic that captures what you are saying. You are instantly recording a short animation Here is a little trial run I did.
http://www.livescribe.com/education/Met Fun! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has great tools for the online course space and the classroom
2.02.2010
Digital Nation on Frontline...see what has happened to us...
Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained?
Click here to go to the movie
1.31.2010
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure | Video on TED.com
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure Video on TED.com TED videos are amazing and this will not disapoint.
1.29.2010
Social Media Intro For Business Intelligence People
Here is one of many presentations on Social Media found on Slide Share when you type in Social Media...This is the buzz word of the moment.
1.24.2010
Making/Using Checklists seem to apply to so many scenarios...
Perhaps we can consider the checklist when setting up a course or advising students...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Jauhar-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Jauhar-t.html
1.19.2010
Research shows that Blended is best...
Check out this Presentation by Dr. Peter Shea, who works with SUNY Learning Network [SLN] and conducted a research project where they ran fully online courses, face to face courses and blended courses with similiar subject matter and found the best student outcomes were from Blended courses.
1.18.2010
FreeTech4Teachers
Here is a blog and more that provides all sorts of great ideas for teaching tools...http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
1.12.2010
Harnessing the Extraordinary Power of Learning Teams†
Nickelodeon is teaching math, maybe there are pointers in here for older learners
By ELIZABETH JENSENNickelodeon, whose preschool shows focus on teaching social skills as much as letters and numbers, will move squarely into the academic realm, with the introduction of “Team Umizoomi,” which it said is the only preschool series centered entirely on teaching math to children. read more...
NMC Horizon Report is here!
The technologies featured in each edition of the Horizon Report are embedded within a contemporary
context that reflects the realities of the time, both in the sphere of academia and in the world at large.
AMD Changing the Game......Gaming isn’t just about entertainment anymore.
Developers — including high school students — are now creating games designed both to educate and engage people of all ages on pressing social issues. Global concerns such as poverty, hunger, climate change, and energy consumption have already been addressed in games that help players understand the complexities involved and explore creative solutions.
read more ....
read more ....
1.10.2010
2010: The Year Ahead for IT in Higher Education
- Public Cloud Services Go Private.
- The President’s Climate Commitment Meets the Campus Data Center.
- Big Science meets Next Generation CyberInfrastructure.
- Time to Declare the PC Dead and Embrace the Mobile Platform.
- The E-Book Reader Grows up and Goes to Campus.
- Social Networking Finds its Niche at College.
- Course Management Platform Alternatives Make Major Inroads.
- Serious Gaming Gets Serious.
- Mobile Security Hits the College Campus.
- Open Content meets the Open University and the Vision of the Metaversity.
1.07.2010
Fingertip Knowledge...memorizing is less important that being savvy at accessing lists
From the book, "The World is Open" by Curtis Bonk, He quotes Elliot Masie,
"Have you noticed how much we are memorizing less? It is due to a combination of Fingertip Knowledge and an increased confidence that information can be easily accessed from our devices and networks...
There are serious implications for the lowered expectation of memorization in our instructional designs. How do we recognize that our learners may not and perhaps should not, memorize key information? Rather, we may want them to be able to navigate to the information, which, in some instances, is safer since things may change. In other instances, the information may not be useful until situations arise.
The lowered levels of memorization and the increased use of Fingertip Knowledge have huge implications for how we design and deliver learning activities."
1.05.2010
5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2010 according to Campus Technology
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/12/09/5-Higher-Ed-Tech-Trends-To-Watch-in-2010.aspx?Page=1
1. More Interactive Classrooms
2. More Information at Your Fingertips
3. Mashed-Up Technologies
4. Breaking Out of Technology Isolation
5. Capabilities That Go Beyond 1:1
1.04.2010
NY Times article explains why Twitter can actually be quite helpful...
Published: January 1, 2010
So you’re drowning in a sea of information. Perhaps the answer is more information.
I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and, not so coincidentally, where Twitter first rolled out in 2007. As someone who was oversubscribed on Facebook, overwhelmed by the computer-generated RSS feeds of news that came flying at me, and swamped by incoming e-mail messages, the last thing I wanted was one more Web-borne intrusion into my life.
1.02.2010
Nice Website for Charles Dickens enthusiasts
In following the wonderful Masterpiece Theatre series on "Little Dorrit" I found a cornucopia of info on Charles Dickens and the era of his writing in London of the 1840-50's
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/dickens/resources.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/dickens/resources.html
12.04.2009
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