Educause monthly newsletter - i finally found the web link for it - they hide it well! Big news - Richard Katz (has LAS ties to BU via Paul Hanson) is leaving Educause
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/
"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 oped piece suggest that as educators," we are called upon to challenge the way students already think and guide them into new patterns or ways of thinking as required, in order for them to grasp central concepts and applications of learning. Collaborative technologies, while not central to the process, can help facilitate this core function of education."
"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."
Universities are losing their grip on higher learning as the Internet is, inexorably, becoming the dominant infrastructure for knowledge - both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people - and as a new generation of students requires a very different model of higher education. The transformation of the university is not just a good idea. It is an imperative, and evidence is mounting that the consequences of further delay may be dire.
Survey of 939 professors indicates their use of social media - both personally and in the classroom - is higher than expected with negligible differences found in use by age of professor.
This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation