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"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."

More discussion about the implications of the new copyright ruling as it relates to LMS use and video editing - specifically mentions Kaltura

""This study firmly shows that continued technological education throughout a teacher's career is vital to providing students with the skills they will need for future careers," said Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association. "This survey shows that school boards need to be as intentional and purposeful as possible in supporting increased technology integration in schools.""

A recent conference on eLearning - all the conference sessions are available via iTunes

Interesting take on teaching information literacy - learning how to evaluate internet resources by examining fake ones.

"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences

One stop shop for Google + info

I am reminded that we are preparing our students for jobs that do not yet exist - being a social media expert is one such job

What do you mean?

Teaching our students how to learn is part of the liberal arts educaiton, this prepares them for jobs that don't exist yet. Gives them the ability to adapt.

Lack of sleep contributes to lack of learning - we all know that, but this story highlights the connection to "always on" technology for teens.

"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."

blog post about the minimum instructional technology level he would like to see every faculty member have

A good "free" support source that we should link to on our web site.

Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States. One hundred and ninety-one students completed a modified version of the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (); it has four subscales: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Strong positive relationships between all subscales were detected. Results indicate students were moderately motivated by the use of podcasts in their online courses. Only available to Butler

Basic videos to introduce common Web2.0 tools