Tracking What 21st Century Schools Should Teach
This short post is of interest for three reasons: – Common core state standards are being integrated into LMS’s and other online educational tools – The Standards are tied to […]
Teaching Resources
Voicethread as powerful digital storytelling
Below is an example of a photo journalism project on Chernobyl. Click any of the side icons to hear/see the dialog and comments, both in Russian and English, or just […]
Horizon report 2010
As many know, the Horizon Report comes out each year to capsulize technology trends that are significant to the academy. This year, the keywords are “data sense-making, the cloud, and […]
What is the “Internet of Things”?
Basically, if you can imagine putting a radio frequency-emitting barcode on an object, and then being able to track that object’s location anywhere in the world via GPS and display […]
Blogging to Improve Student Learning
“Most universities press their faculty to add technology to their classroom by adopting the Learning Management System—Blackboard, Moodle, etc. This is a mistake. Faculty often end up spending hours learning […]
Summer Reading on the Human Mind
The New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange, Spring 2010, includes a great list of readings about the Human Mind, put together by G. Christian Jernstedt: humanmind
iPad in Education Resources
By the end of June, we will have policies, insurance, etc. in place for the iPads. Between now and then, please check out the following if you have “iPad fever”: […]
Made To Stick: Presentations That Stick | Fast Company
This article, linked below, offers a few helpful tips on effective powerpoints. Check the end of the article for links to other resources. Also, this blog — Presentation Zen — […]
Digital Storytelling resource
This is from the Visible Knowledge project at Georgetown, and consists of a blog post featuring some very useful resources and how-to’s on digital storytelling. A useful skim if you […]
Copyright Resource at BCC
Karen CH writes: ” I have put up the following copyright page which can be found at: http://www.berkshirecc.edu/library_copyright_info Faculty and staff may not understand, especially in the digital world, that […]
