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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 [...]

21 Aug, 2008

Online Reading & Writing with Wikis

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Teacher Tools| Web 2.0| Wiki

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 [...]

06 May, 2008

Automatically Back up your Mac

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Teacher Tools

I am a techie for most of the day, and I can tell you first hand the REAL pain that I have seen when people lose their data. There have long been some PC backup options out there, but today online backup startup Mozy released an automated backup solution for the Mac! Mac [...]

06 May, 2008

Google Teacher Academy - Happy National Teacher Day

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Teacher Tools

I received this e-mail today on a listserv I am part of. Google is accepting applications for their next Google Teacher Academy that starts June 25th of this year in Mountain View California… talk about awesome professional development! You should apply!
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Hello and Happy National Teacher Day,
In 1953, Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded the 81st Congress [...]

06 May, 2008

Second Life in Pharmacy Education

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Second Life| Teacher Tools

Here is a great real life example of educational uses of Second Life on our campus. Check it out!

Yesterday Steve Hargadon published an article entitled “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education” that every educator should read. Here are a couple of excerpts”
“I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. [...]

06 Mar, 2008

Edmodo Screencast

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Social Web| Student Tools| Teacher Tools

A couple of days ago I wrote about a new twitter-like service designed especially for educators, called Edmodo. They posted a little screencast today. Looks promising:

Edmodo Screencast Teaser from Jeff O’Hara on Vimeo.

03 Mar, 2008

Twitter In the Classroom - Edmodo

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Student Tools| Teacher Tools

Last week I linked to a great article about using Twitter in the classroom.  Today I saw a new service that is in Beta right now that is a twitter-like web app specifically designed for the Classroom…  Edmodo.  I was not able to get in, but you can see some screenshots here. 
It promises to [...]


About Jeff

I am an Academic Computing Expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.

About Anthony

I am 20 years old, and a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My hobbies involve going to the gym, spending time with friends, and messing around on my computer. I am a Computer Science major right now, but there is too much math for my liking, so I am considering a switch to the Journalism School specifically multimedia design).