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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached

What we’ve come to realize more and more through major events — elections, major celebrations, breaking news events and tragedies — is that the two-screen experience is becoming more and more ubiquitous,” says Morse. “More people are interacting, watching while using their tablets and their iPhones, and we want to create the richest two-screen experience we can.
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Most unusually, two-dimensional barcodes will appear on-screen throughout the day, prompting viewers with smartphones to scan the code to load additional CNN coverage on their smartphones.
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networks are beginning to understand the importance of an engaged audience across multiple channels
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The challenges involve understanding how consumers use different kinds of devices, and how to optimize the experience for each device
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The network will also keep track of trending conversations in order to bridge online and on-air discussions
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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached

Taking Attendance
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building a personal virtual library
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allow readers to highlight and take notes on any PDF saved to the system
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I store all my syllabuses there,
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Dropbox for both scholarly reading and keeping track of documents
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snap a picture of his whiteboard before he erases it
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uses his iPhone's camera as a document scanner, with an app called JotNot Pro
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Inkling creates textbooks made for iPads, with interactive features and videos
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mind mapping
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smartphones or tablet computers enhances the process, letting scholars toss around ideas with a flick of the finger
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touch-screen interface of
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crowd science," in which the public is invited to add structured data to an online database
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a flashcard function that helps them learn the names of their students
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Attendance
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app (which now sells for $4.99
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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached

Those relationships — with humans in the flesh — help students to persevere. Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
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There is something motivating about the student’s relationship with the instructor — and with the student’s relationship with other students in the class — that would be absent if each took the course in a software-only environment.
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We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses
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What is sacrificed when classrooms disappear, the place where good teachers do not merely ‘deliver content’ to students but wake them up, throw them on their feet and pull the chair away? Where ideas can become intoxicating, where an instructor’s ardor for a subject or a dimension of the world can be contagious? Where scientific, literary, ethical or political passions are ignited?
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