Horizon Report 2012
We’ll be discussing this today in the CTL at noontime. Look for notes from the session next week!
multimedia
Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives
The curse of living in interesting times is no more evident than in the disruptive world of etextbooks/digital publishing/mobile computing/tablet/higher education discussion. Linked below is a post on the Open […]
How Many Really? BBC Dimensions
This is an amazing set of sites that lets the user explore quantitative reasoning, history, geometry, populations, environment… and a host of other disciplines through interactive comparative graphics and information. […]
Interactive Video in Elearning study
This study, which is not new but was recently cited in the Department of Education meta-study of 2010, finds that students can benefit greatly from interactive video in online courses, […]
About Infographics
It seems that Infographics are sprouting like proverbial fungi around the Internet lately. COMMENTS PLEASE: How have you used, or could you see using, infographics in the classroom? The godfather […]
Summertime: A Visit to the Khan Academy
I have posted some KA videos before in this blogspace, but this resource bears pointing out again. Mr. Khan created some algebra videos to help out his cousins back in […]
“Digital Is” Resource for teaching writing in the digital age
This looks worth perusing and possibly joining if you teach writing or incorporate writing in your assignments: http://digitalis.nwp.org/ “The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and […]
What Will It Take to Sustain Online Accessibility?
Once again, we are warned that the very technologies that offer so much to students (low cost, multiple platform support, social media interfaces) have not been made fully accessible. Please […]
Salman Khan’s Idea – from TED
Founder of the Khan Academy explores the approach of lectures by video that students view OUTSIDE OF CLASS, and reserving class time for doing homework. What do you think of […]
Quantitative Literacy in Social Media 2010
And the lesson is: if you want your students to find out something from you, ask Lady Gaga to tweet it???? Social media 152 million – The number of blogs […]
