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Barbara Lindsey

Home - Zotero Citation Management Tool - LibGuides at Purchase College, SUNY - 0 views

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    Library Guide to Zotero. Might be helpful way to explore Zotero. Found via #phdchat on Twitter.
Barbara Lindsey

How-To Guide | Schoolshape - 0 views

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    methods 2012
Barbara Lindsey

Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook (Read Fullscreen) - 0 views

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    Original source
Barbara Lindsey

Every Teacher's Must-Have Guide To Facebook ‹ Edudemic - 0 views

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    Seems pretty self-evident but may be useful as a reminder...
Barbara Lindsey

After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - T... - 0 views

  • It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or pre­sent other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.
  • OpenSimulator, and it is essentially a free knockoff of Second Life
  • The most ambitious attempt to build an education-friendly virtual world is a project called Open Cobalt,
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  • led by researchers at Duke University
  • Any college with a spare server and some staff time can use the OpenSimulator software and play God to a virtual world.
  • The main request is the ability to limit access to students in a course, which the group can do.
  • To counter these new options, Linden Lab is testing a product that would let colleges install a world on their own servers and limit access to students and professors. Case Western is among those trying it out for its virtual campus.
  • Maybe 3-D online environments are just one of those technologies that sound cool but never fully materialize, like personal jetpacks. Trying to make the World Wide Web look like the real world misses the new kinds of things the Internet can do.
  • "We don't ­really understand what we can do and what we can't do with this tool for education yet, so it's more exploratory now," said Peter J. Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University who studies virtual worlds. "We know there's something here, but we don't know what yet."
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    It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or pre sent other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.
Barbara Lindsey

elearning Training | Elluminate Inc. - 0 views

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    Video and text guides for participants and moderators using Elluminate
Blanca Garcia Valenzuela

Free Technology for Teachers: Free 33 Page Guide - Google for Teachers - 0 views

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    "This guide avoids some of the obvious things, like using Google Docs for collaborative writing, and instead focuses on some of the lesser-used Google tools options"
Barbara Lindsey

T4T Spring 2011 Fryer - 11 am - 0 views

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    What a great idea to share an audio study guide for students. Addresses differentiated learning.
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