academic technology

ISTE 11 presentation 

where are your followers located?

A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs

QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free.Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java).Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard!This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA. 

2012 will likely see an acceleration of structured, push button, social curation across the web. Why? Because most users don't want to take much effort to produce content, and consuming content in a structured manner (especially photos) is also much faster.

http://www.youtube.com/user/speakeasynyc/videos Marshall Souldful Jones

This would be perfect for Jen in the library.

Our education is shifting from century-old, industrial-age factory model to personalized learning through technologies. Blended learning has been widely recognized as a promising approach to facilitate a learning-on-demand model. This infographic displays the ideas around it along with 6 programs representing each of the blended learning models

Models for meeting vs online are very useful

iPad Learning Objectives

explore the design and evaluation of digital media assignments. Using basic technology tools to chart story lines and to design media projects, participants will explore the use of media as an argumentative tool. In doing so, participants will explore the different processes and stages involved in the development of media assignments. This workshop will explore the ways in which we can clearly articulate goals and criteria with our students and with a thorough knowledge of content driven media projects. Participants will leave the workshop with evaluation criteria that is useful not only for evaluating student projects but that may also be used to critique existing media productions.

Implicit learning of words via context versus explicit- learning a list of words and definitions. each creates different paths in the brain. "Readers identified as "excellent" did not demonstrate notable differences in brain function between the implicit and explicit approaches, but readers considered "average" showed significantly less efficient neural networks when the pseudowords were learned by the implicit method."

2012 Learning Management System (LMS) Evaluation

Here's a look at how the conversion from Blackboard to Canvas looks (folder to page) and some insights on how I've been redesigning around a page structure (Canvas) instead of a folder structure (Blackboard). To move my course, I exported from Blackboard, imported that file into Canvas, then waited about two hours for the conversion.

 two day event focuses on deploying, integrating and using Google Apps 

The Community of Scientists project seeks to pair up NH classrooms for inquiry-based science co-investigations, using technology for video and voice communication.  Teachers at Winchester School (K-8) in Winchester, NH, are working out initial technology questions by creating a Community of Scientists with Elementary Education Methods II students at Keene State College. The pilot project is to co-investigate hydroponics as a sustainable option for growing food rapidly in smaller areas. It entails setting up a simple classroom hydroponics station where students will explore how to best grow plants hydroponically.  KSC students will conduct and monitor their hydroponics experiments while students in Winchester School conduct similar experiment in their own hydroponic station in their classroom.  Students will then video chat with their co-investigators and share their findings.

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New Media, Social Media, and Learning Syllabus

The Horizon Report points out that behind these emerging technologies/practices are four trends: The abundance of information available online today is challenging traditional notions of what it means to be educators from keepers of information to coaches and sense-makers.People expect to work and study anywhere and anytime.Technologies are increasingly cloud-based. (For more on cloud-computing, click here.)The work of students is increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinar

Google Spreadsheet is a powerful and free tool to manage complex spreadsheets. This tutorial illustrates ten useful formulas you must know to help you simplify the way you work in Google Spreadsheet.

"Your Personal Music TV First - we build you an ideal playlist of your favorite artists and related music. Next - we search video sites to give you access to the largest music video library. Finally - you control what plays. "

Pandora with video... though the video is mediocre.