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"First off, where are the books? There are almost none left on the first floor. Thousands of volumes have been moved to the upper floors, along with the circulation desk. Some have been jettisoned."

This article makes a good point that I think I have missed sometimes in working with faculty. Before we encourage faculty new to Instructional Technology to use 21st Century technology as part of their curriculum we should encourage them to be participants in the technology. We should encourage them to subscribe to a blog/wiki/Podcast and be a participant so that they can better understand the tools usefulness in learning before they integrate it into their curriculum.

Some good steps. I think she missed the first step which is to define the need for the technology in the first place - what are the teaching/learning goals that will be satisfied/transformed through the integration of technology. Too often we start with the technology and forget the fundamentals of pedagogy.

I disagree with this article - first, there isn't sufficient data, and I think it all depends in how Twitter is used. I tend to think of Twitter as more of a collection space of ideas and links. What I think is flawed in the research is that Twitter doesn't provide context (source of previous knowledge) or sufficient data for the brain to chunk or organize. I think the author is comparing the effectiveness of a wrench and a hammer while viewing a nail.

I disagree with this article - first, there isn't sufficient data, and I think it all depends in how Twitter is used. I tend to think of Twitter as more of a collection space of ideas and links. What I think is flawed in the research is that Twitter doesn't provide context (source of previous knowledge) or sufficient data for the brain to chunk or organize. I think the author is comparing the effectiveness of a wrench and a hammer while viewing a nail.

University of California is hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program

First of Chronicle Research Services 3 part report on our students in 2020

Great description of a instructor's use of Twitter in a course - he walks through his entire process from planning to implementation to results in class

Report after first year of iPhones at ACU

this is a first attempt at filtering twitter for education, making it easier to find content-rich posts among all the other ones. Created by a student at Purdue University, Need4feed is a Twitter analytics tool that analyzes tweets within the context of a conference hash tag - in this case #heweb09. url to the APP is http://www.itap.purdue.edu/informatics/need4feed/