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nurses tweet details of surgery to keep family informed

how does Twitter change the truth?

interesting take on how we are an instant culture

Students demand lectures available digitally.

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.

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 don't think the Kindle is the panacea of access as this article suggests - some healthy collection development in prior years may have made the device less of a "savior" for research. "We have to work with what we have" is a cop-out, in my opinion. What do you think?

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/