We are Creating a Culture of Distraction
This is an important article for educators to read. See if you can get through it without giving in to a distraction. The cognitive explanation of what is happening to […]
Technology
24 Complete BCC Mobile Initiative Training
Smiling faces were seen all around as “Group 1” of the BCC Mobile Initiative completed six hours of training in ipads on March 8. The workshops, designed and led by […]
2012 Study of Student Use of Writing Sources by Turnitin…
Among the findings… “KEY FINDINGS INCLUDE: Only just over half of Internet sources in student writing come from legitimate educational resources. 57% of matches come from academic and homework sites, […]
Gesture computing — TNG (The Next Generation)
Thanks to Lois C. for seeing this — I have often said in workshops that keyboards and mice will fade away as gesture and voice commands take over in our […]
Cherokee Email — Because they can
Linguist, anthropoligists, and historians will love this latest effort from Google… a bid to preserve the Cherokee language. Hopefully, interested scholars in the future will track this and its effects […]
A Truly Cogent Analysis of MOOCs and Their Impact
Massively open online courses (MOOCs) are affecting the plate tectonics of higher ed. I encourage you to read this analysis by Clay Shirky. The first part of the post revisits […]
Be the Grader of the 20 millionth paper and win $2000!
It’s not often that a vendor offers us a chance to win $2000, which includes an additional $2000 donated to scholarships. The deal is: grade your papers using TII’s Grademark, […]
When tracking your passwords becomes crazy-making…
This blog is not usually a place for targeted “tech advice,” but I have found that the number of unique passwords that I need to keep track of is now […]
Hands-on in the CTL!
Look for more hands-on tech in the CTL this Fall!
“What Facebook Knows” – Where Social Science and Social Networking Meet
This article from Technology Review details the work of Facebook’s Data Science Team – a group of Ph.D.’s who run experiments and correlations on FB’s incredible resource from 900 million […]
