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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
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 [...]