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Dr. Sarah Glasco - Instructor of French, Foreign Languages, Elon University

Background - everything focuses on collaboration. Not just one way learning, but teachers learning from students and students learning from teachers.
The world is changing, [...]

Presenters:

Dr. Paula Hudson - Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program - Elon University
Rick Palmer - Instructional Designer, Instructional Design & Development - Elon University

Example Blog They Used in Classroom:

Tests and Measures

Possible Assignment Candidate’s for Blogging

A flat assignment - an assignment that is boring. Something that students hate to learn and teachers hate to [...]

Taught by Edward F. Gehringer from NC State (Associate Professor of Computer Science)
Advantages of Wiki’s

Co-editing: Howework done on wiki’s promote collaboration between students
Co-assembly: Different people can contribute different parts
Write more than a traditional word document
Don’t have to worry about location and version (it’s all online and available)

Pitfalls

Other’s can “deface” wiki pages (bots) - Precreate [...]

For those who don’t know Michael Wesch, he is the author of the classic Web 2.0 video’s on YouTube that I wrote about a while ago.
This presentation was really great. A lot of it was taken from his “A Vision of Students Today” video. If you haven’t see it.. start out with [...]

So today I am attending a conference at Elon University. It is their 5th annual summer “Innovation in Instruction” conference.
You can see the the schedule here. I will post updates throughout the day. This is my schedule.

Lessons from New Guinea for the Global Village and the Crisis of [...]

I just wish they would do one near me… maybe some day… Perhaps I can create my own curriculum…

Google Teacher Academy - Chicago
Chicago, IL
September 24, 2008
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Applications Due: August 24, 2008http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html ——————————————————–

We are pleased to announce that another round of Google’s FREE training program [...]

Google has been great at coming out with new applications for the iPhone/iTouch. Last night they announced a new service that I think is really useful: a specialized interface for the iPhone/iTouch for Google Translate.
With the ubiquitous ability of the iPhone, and high speed 3G connection, this is a great find for any student [...]

Okay… It has been a couple of months, and it is just killing me. Almost every day I see something that I want to pass along, so I am going to end m Hiatus and write a couple of blog posts now and again.
I have been working on two conference proposals, so [...]