See the WIKI . Good discussion wt ideas for followup cf Mudd reno. In case the link is lost, here is the WIKI text… What are the learning practices for 2010? Terraced lecture hall – Inca terraces at University of Melbourne. Originally a raked design. Now for about 48 originally…
Lots of Sl discussion at ELI 08, with no surprising new themes emerging. Many schools are experimenting, but facing the challenges of both the technology and the effective integration into a course/curriculum. Several groups are encouraging LindenLabs to provide some hooks into local autentication/authoriation systems. Until that happens, we’ll be…
A presentation from UIUC CTE describes a program that evolved from the concept of “Learning Technology Teams“. After discussing with Pam, not sure how we can build on this at Yale, but let’s follow up with some of their material.
Attending this workshop with BArBara Rockenbach and Ian McDermot from YUL. Started with a “clicker” exercise to identify familiarity with collaborative teaching and learning.Our first exercise was to identify challenges associated with group work students who don’t want to work in a group balancing expectations – time required Assessment of…
official mit blog personal blog Abstract: What Wikipedia can teach us about the new media literacies – this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process. I’m finding the term…
Henry Jenkins delivers the ELI 2008 keynote, entitled “What Wikipedia Can Teach Us about the New Media Literacies”.The fall 2006 Middlebury History Department debate over value and authority of Wikipedia began a process of thinking critically about the numerous new sources that are now available to students. Jenkins, a key…
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Ken, Pam and I are at this small meeting in San Antonio that focuses on Web2.0 impacts in Higher Ed. The Monday morning workshop on Learning 2.0 at the McMaster Library by Jeff Trzciak caught my eye for several reasons – McMaster is my alma mater, and the topic is…
I’m playing around with it and my first impression is that it feels clinical. That’s more of a feeling about Sakai in general, though. In terms of functionality it has some interesting features. It has a keywords field where you can add multiple tags by separating them with commas. Unfortunately,…
Yet another imovie bug – once again caused by emptying the project trash. Thus, as a starter I will say that one should just refrain from emptying the imovie trash while doing a project unless you are absolutely sure what you are getting rid of. The current bug involves using…