BUCAT

toolkit of 10 services that can help you take control of Twitter and organize your followers

NING to remain free for education!

Kim has a short list of requirements for a curricular media platform - might be useful to us too.

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

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

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

innovation grants

SOPHIE is an open source tool maintained by USC that allows for creating and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie authors can easily combine a variety of media - text, images, video and audio into a sophisticated multimedia work.

"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"

Probably seems like an odd post, but so true - you don't gain if you don't risk.

Some really good thoughts on transforming education - thanking teachers who fail when being innovative, reframe the role of the teacher, give students access to 21str century skills

Growing interest in online courses - particularly community colleges that reach out to non traditional students

iPad, education

interesting blog post by a teacher who integrates cell phones and iPods into the curriculum. From her vantage point, benefits outweigh distractions

iPad on campus

lots of sensationalized stuff about banning iPads - in fact no ban universally, just limited places where the devices don't connect or dont function as expected on the network.

Short essay from a Prof who used Twitter in the classroom this semester.