Uses for Twitter, Part 1
As many of my colleagues know, I have not been a big fan of Twitter for academic purposes. Why? The impression I had is: Twitter is tacky. Great if you […]
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Announcement: BCC Summer Institute on Universal Design & Online Accessibility
The Fourth Annual BCC Title III Summer Institute: Universal Design & Online Accessibility Led by Dr. Steve Fadden, Director, Landmark College Institute for Research and Training Berkshire Community College Campus […]
Resources shared on Twitter from the SUNY CIT conference
For your summer enjoyment: Zotero – a browser add-in tool for reference citations http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide Patterns for Online Discussions http://hillside.net/plop/2010/papers/osullivan.pdf Adventures in Open Source: Lessons Learned at Purchase College http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa/cit-2011-adventures-in-open-source
More on the Delhi Moodle Moot
Moodle Moot at Delhi sessions continued Tuesday (https://confluence.delhi.edu/display/CIS/SUNY+Delhi+MoodleMoot+2011). The author of this blog presented on the online pedagogy course she has developed to train new online instructors. Other sessions included […]
Clark Shah-Nelsons Ed Tech Tips » YouTube’s Closed Captioning: Rocks!
this blog post offers insight into how to make your Youtube clips accessible. Very useful! http://www.clarkshahnelson.com/blog/?p=102
Ed Tech Forecasts for 2011
These forecasts for the direction of educational technology are not surprising, as they are continuations of current directions: Mobile computing Tablet, touch screen Cloud based Personalized and engagement-based learning are […]
Reading for the Break?
Kevin Kelly is one of the founders of Wired Magazine, and child of the 1990s Internet boom. He has written an interesting book, What Technology Wants, written from the point […]
Audio Feed for Your Blog!
I am piloting the audio feed service from odiogo.com. This can provide enhanced accessibility for visually impaired readers through a feed service that “reads” each of your posts. You can […]
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction – NYTimes.com
This is an excellent, in-depth article that explores some studies comparing TV watching and interactive computing time among high school students. It profiles a high school student who struggles to […]
Next Generation Learning Challenges
This is the website for the Gates Foundation/Educause program to support college completion. The first “Wave” of this project is focused on open courseware. Browse the site to learn more […]
