academic technology

Emory released a suite of mobile applications last Monday that allows students, faculty, staff and visitors on the Oxford and Atlanta campuses to access information about the University via smartphones. The application was made available for the iPhone immediately, with models for Blackberry devices and browser-based mobile websites set to follow on its heels. Contains history of Bb mobile

 Put.io is a storage service that fetches media files remotely and lets you stream them immediately.

OCR software let you easily convert images, such as digital photographs, scanned documents, printed books, etc. into text. Once you perform OCR on an image, you'll be able to copy-paste or edit the text content of that image without any retyping and it also becomes more searchable.

A nice chart that compares blogs, wikis, and Google Docs in terms of purpose and functions

kCELTER's - we can use this to frame our conversation about WHY use Twitter. Nice and simple post to get started. How do you actually do it? I'm going to leave behind the pedagogy (mostly) in this post, and instead offer some practical advice for teaching with Twitter. I'll cover six aspects of Twitter integration where it pays to plan ahead of time (i.e. sometime last week): organization, access, frequency, substance, archiving, and assessment. I'll deal with of each of these areas in turn, but before I do, and if you're new to Twitter, I want to urge you to read Ryan Cordell's comprehensive ProfHacker primer on Twitter. Ryan addresses many common questions about Twitter, and his guide is perfect for sharing with colleagues-and students-before you move into the nuts-and-bolts aspects of teaching with Twitter.

7 Technology Alternatives to Standard Homework Assignments PicLits, wallwisher, glogster Most are K-12 ish but the idea of showing the "standard homework" and then how to add media to it is good.

One teacher's use of VT teaching foreign language.

Welcome to TRAILS, the ASA Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.  With over 2,700 peer-reviewed resources in more than 70 subject areas, TRAILS is the place to find fresh ideas for your classroom.  It's also the perfect place to publish your own teaching and learning innovations.

Welcome to TRAILS, the ASA Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.  With over 2,700 peer-reviewed resources in more than 70 subject areas, TRAILS is the place to find fresh ideas for your classroom.  It's also the perfect place to publish your own teaching and learning

This fall, I am requiring the students in my seminar to have a Twitter account. Students will post items on a regular basis, using the hashtag #BIO361. We also will devote some time on a regular basis to discussing items or responses from Twitter. Our first post probably will be on the first day of classes - Tuesday, August 24, 2010. For this project to work most effectively, we need a critical mass of people outside of our class to participate. If you, your students, friends, or colleagues would like to join us, please do. We will appreciate any new comments, retweets, or responses. I'm looking forward to an engaging discussion throughout the semester.

use your own figures

Social Media Dashboard manage multiple social media accounts

Radbox works through a simple bookmarklet that you click whenever you're on a page with a video you want to save. The basic compatibility list reads "YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, CollegeHumor, Hulu, Blip.tv, Megavideo, TED, etc." In my own testing, I liked the way Radbox lined up and played my selected videos with a note about when I saved them, but found that, about half the time, I'd need to click on a video and bring it up on its original site (i.e. click embedded YouTube clips and view them on YouTube) to ensure the Radbox bookmarklet picked up the video for sure. Radbox is a free service, requires a quick sign-up to use

The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of "serious games" (i.e. video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain.) recommended by @CSouthard

Social gaming to learn about issues. Many are based on phone apps and traveling around NYC to find things. One is a basketball game that teaches about the deficit. recommended at edcamp

get a listing of your tweets daily

should probably mention multiple account management options like this at NHCUC workshop

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started.

displays the results of a search in a spreadsheet format. This spreadsheet format allows users to quickly compare the results of a search. Users can alter the fields in the spreadsheet to further refine a search.