I’ll be attending the MERLOT International Conference in San Jose, August 13-16, 2009. I’m giving a presentation on Lecture Capture technology. MERLOT always puts on great conferences. If you are interested in eLearning I would encourage you to attend. Here’s a message from the MERLOT project director with more information about the conference. Dear MERLOT […]
Posts with the higher education tag
Opencast
Opencast Community Website The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia. Through the mailing list, website and collaboration among its members, the community will strive to offer guidance and information to […]
Students, don’t defriend your facebook account just yet
Facebook Users, Research Need Further Study The link above will take you to an article in the Wall Street Journal that gives hope to students who considered dumping facebook after a recent study reported a relationship between social networking and lower grades. (delicious tags: higher_education Facebook socialnetworking K-12)
Best practices with clickers
Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach Recommended article on best practices with clickers. (delicious tags: higher_education K-12 clickers active_learning)
Take good care of your digital dossier
Digital Dossier This YouTube video from the Digital Natives project can help students and teachers better understand how everything they are doing online is creating a digital finger print or tattoo that can be used later by someone who wants to know more about them. We need to think carefully before adding our personal thoughts […]
Take good care of your digital dossier
Digital Dossier This YouTube video from the Digital Natives project can help students and teachers better understand how everything they are doing online is creating a digital finger print or tattoo that can be used later by someone who wants to know more about them. We need to think carefully before adding our personal thoughts […]
Can the NCAA make a student take down a facebook group?
Can the NCAA make a student take down a facebook group? College students have started making facebook groups to encourage star high school athletes to attend their university. The NCAA considers these students as boosters and is asking athletic departments to have the pages taken down. Not so fast NCAA… (delicious tags: higher_education Facebook socialnetworking […]
Dialoging about ePortfolios
e-Portfolios in the California State University system This link provides access to presentations given during a recent “Day of Dialogue” about the use of ePortfolios in higher education. (tags: assessment eportfolio higher_education)
Dialoging about ePortfolios
e-Portfolios in the California State University system This link provides access to presentations given during a recent “Day of Dialogue” about the use of ePortfolios in higher education. (tags: assessment eportfolio higher_education)
Learning with Facebook
The Chemistry of Facebook: Using Social Networking to Create an Online Community for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory This article reports on a study where students in a face-to-face course were given options of using facebook or WebCT to discuss course topics. The results show that the facebook group had a higher number of student posts […]
