WebAIM posts screen reader user survey
The findings are below. Items of note for BCC: Mobile readers are growing at a similar pace to every other mobile usage – which calls out for a mobile strategy […]
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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 […]
Irony Alert: Desire2Learn, Critic of Litigation, Sues Over Utah Contract – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dear Colleagues, Some of you who remember that D2L was one of our LMS candidates may enjoy reading this article. Apparently, the higher ground is hard to hold!! http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/irony-alert-desire2learn-critic-of-litigation-sues-over-utah-contract/29118
Clickers and Peer Instruction
If you are interested in clickers, please ck out this resource from Harvard. Physics Professor Eric Mazur is a lead user of clickers, and has developed best practices for peer […]
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 […]
Clickers: Not (Only) What You Thought
Frank S. did a brilliant workshop in the CTL last week, demonstrating how, in the year or so he has been using clickers in his science classes, his use of […]
Youtube now directly records from your webcam
This is a real breakthrough! Now you can open your youtube account, select Upload a video, and you will see at the top of the screen the option “Record from […]
