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Nils Peterson

War News Radio | Academic Commons - 0 views

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  • War News Radio (WNR) is an award winning, student-run radio show produced by Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It is carried by over thirty-seven radio stations across the United States, Canada and Italy, and podcasts are available through our Web site. It attempts to fill the gaps in the media's coverage of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing balanced and in-depth reporting, historical perspective, and personal stories.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Intersting piece about students working on an authentic problem within the College, but outside its credit awarding structure
  • Robert Fisk, one of the best journalists covering conflicts in the Middle East, described this as a kind of "hotel journalism." "More and more Western reporters in Baghdad" he writes in a survey of media coverage in Iraq, "are reporting from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq's towns and cities."1 If the journalist in Iraq could prepare his or her reports by relying on phone interviews, Swarthmore students could do that as well.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Theron brought this work to my attention a couple years ago. They end up using Skype as one of their tools
  • Initially college administrators and faculty explored the idea of incorporating War News Radio into the college curriculum, where students involved in the program could receive credit for their broadcast work. Students took courses through the film and media studies department and completed required readings on the Middle East. However, it was hard to do both things at the same time and the college stopped giving credit, which made the show more focused on reporting. And then it became clear that an experienced journalist was needed to guide the students.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      A couple threads connect here. One is Daniel Pink's Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (intrinsic rewards) being more important in a creative endevor than extrinsic rewards (course grades). The other idea is a mentor from the Community of Practice rather than from inside the university
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  • students were becoming better reporters and the show became more professional as it moved to a weekly format. Stations throughout the U.S. began to take interest in what WNR was covering as the shows were uploaded to Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a Web-based platform for digital distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs. Students' reports were now being heard by thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad. With this publicity, students felt increasingly responsible for meeting weekly deadlines and producing a high quality program. Currently staff members contribute more than twenty hours of work into every show
  • In addition to placing Swarthmore on the map, it has boosted the number of applicants. WNR is “one of two or three things that have influenced applicants to the college, so that people who want to come to Swarthmore and have to write the essay: "Why Swarthmore?" one of the most frequently cited things in the last few years has been War News Radio,”
Peggy Collins

Official Google Docs Blog: Electronic Portfolios with Google Apps - 0 views

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eportfolio barrett

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  • Peggy Collins on 23 Sep 09
     
    looks like Google has officially adopted Helen Barrett's method of e-portfolios with Google apps. Posted on "Googlel Docs Blog"
  • Peggy Collins on 23 Sep 09
     
    looks like google has officially adopted Helen Barrett's method of e-portfolios with Google apps. Posted on "Google Docs Blog"
Matthew Tedder

East Bay Express : Print This Story - 0 views

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education brain memetics

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  • Matthew Tedder on 21 Sep 09
     
    It's not the African American aspect of this story that interests me. It is the aspect of attitudes--whether they be ethnically correlated or not. Politically problematic but I think this includes, at its core, crucial factors to consider. I think this research would have been better conducted not in consideration of ethnicity but rather groups as determined by criteria derived from factor analysis. To me, the point is that memes matter. Both behavioral and belief memes can characterize groups of friends (a better unit of study than a nebulous ethnicity) and provide them with a baseline of comparative likelinesses in achievements of various kinds.
Theron DesRosier

Course Portfolio Initiative - 0 views

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IUB course_portfolios sotl 2.0 learning

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  • Theron DesRosier on 21 Sep 09
     
    Examples of course portfolios from Indiana University Bloomington. All of these link to the Pew Course Portfolio Peer Review of Teaching Project http://www.courseportfolio.org/peer/pages/index.jsp
Peggy Collins

The End in Mind » Assessment as a Social Activity - 0 views

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gradebook harvesting

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  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    jon mott blog post on harvesting gradebook with our video
Peggy Collins

Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

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elearning moodle blackboard assessment

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  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    feldstein summarizes the findings from North Carolina.
Gary Brown

Don't Shrug Off Student Evaluations - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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student evaluations

shared by Gary Brown on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • On their most basic level, student evaluations are important because they open the doors of our classrooms. It is one of the remarkable ironies of academe that while we teachers seek to open the minds of our students—to shine a light on hypocrisy, illusion, corruption, and distortion; to tell the truth of our disciplines as we see it—some of us want that classroom door to be closed to the outside world. It is as if we were living in some sort of academic version of the Da Vinci code: Only insiders can know the secret handshake.
  • Gary Brown on 18 Sep 09
     
    A Chronicle version that effectively surveys the issues. Maybe nothing new, but a few nuggets.
Nils Peterson

Mod7: One-to-one Technologies - ETEC522 - Ventures in Learning Technology - September 2009 - 0 views

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  • The reason that 1-1 environments is such an important emerging market is that it’s almost certain that most learners of the world will have some kind of device put in their hands over the next decade.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      This is a class on ed tech. This post starts out on the topic of hardware. The significance of this sentence caught my attention becaue my 8-year old daughter has added to her go to school ritual the finding of her cell phone. The phone does not have service, but it will play a simple game and make sounds, It seems to be a talisman for her awareness of the connected world around her
Matthew Tedder

New York Launches Public School Curriculum Based on Playing Games | Popular Science - 0 views

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education

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  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    hmm...
  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    This just reminds me that finding a way to make addictive games also educational is a holy grail of software design.
Peggy Collins

Ten Things I (no longer) Beli... - 0 views

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technology transform change

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  • Peggy Collins on 31 Aug 09
     
    From the 2 Steves at TLT Group - a series of blog posts are linked from this table view of 10 things they no longer believe about transforming Teaching & Learning with Technology. The right part of the table includes a summary of what they believe and suggest today.
Gary Brown

Computing Community Consortium - 0 views

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authentic learning computer science

shared by Gary Brown on 29 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer Science Filed Under computer history, resources  There are many reasons for research funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, etc.) to invest in the education of students. Producing the next generation of innovators is the most obvious one.
Corinna Lo

Blackboard Outcomes Assessment Webcast - Moving Beyond Accreditation: Using Institution... - 0 views

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outcomes_assessment blackboard

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  • Corinna Lo on 14 Aug 09
     
    The first 12 minutes of the webcast is worth watching. He opened up with a story of the investigation of cholera outbreak during Victorian era in London, and brought that into how it related to student success. He then summarized what the key methods of measurement were, and some lessons Learned: An "interdisciplinary" led to unconventional, yet innovative methods of investigation. The researchers relied on multiple forms of measurement to come to their conclusion. The visualization of their data was important to proving their case to others.
Corinna Lo

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think « Socialnomics - Social... - 0 views

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social_networking stats

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  • Corinna Lo on 25 Aug 09
     
    "People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them." "We no longer search for the news, the news finds us... "
Gary Brown

The Wired Campus - Duke Professor Uses 'Crowdsourcing' to Grade - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views

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grading crowd-sourcing peer review

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Learning is more than earning an A says Cathy N. Davidson, the professor, who recently returned to teach English and interdisciplinary studies after eight years in administration. But students don't always see it that way. Vying for an A by trying to figure out what a professor wants or through the least amount of work has made the traditional grading scale superficial, she says."You've got this real mismatch between the kind of participatory learning that’s happening online and outside of the classroom, and the top-down, hierarchical learning and rigid assessment schemes that we’re using in the classroom from grades K through 12 and all the way up to graduate school," Ms. Davidson says. "In school systems today, we’re putting more and more emphasis on quantitative assessment in an era when, out of the classroom, students are learning through an entirely different way of collaboration, customizing, and interacting."
  • Theron DesRosier on 14 Aug 09
     
    We need to contact Cathy Davidson and work together on this.
Gary Brown

Tenure Applications Go Digital - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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ePortfolios Tenure and Promotion faculty development

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • That "better way" will begin this fall, when Kent State faculty members have the option of submitting their dossiers electronically; digital dossiers will very likely become the only way to go in a year.
  • A big attraction of digital dossiers, some professors note, is that it's easier to include elements of scholarship and research that couldn't be captured as well in a binder. "You can post video and audio of your teaching. You can take pictures of art and include it," says David W. Dalton, an associate professor of instructional technology at Kent State. "You can hyperlink to things. You can really tell your story in new ways."
  • Gary Brown on 13 Aug 09
     
    an ePortfolio by any other name
Theron DesRosier

P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University / FrontPage - 0 views

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p2pu edupunks

shared by Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09
     
    "The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and weare building pathways to formal credit as well."
Theron DesRosier

Revolution in the Classroom - The Atlantic (August 12, 2009) - 0 views

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christensen innovation

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  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09
     
    An article in the Atlantic today by Clayton Christensen discusses "Revolution in the Classroom" In a paragraph on data collection he says the following: Creating effective methods for measuring student progress is crucial to ensuring that material is actually being learned. And implementing such assessments using an online system could be incredibly potent: rather than simply testing students all at once at the end of an instructional module, this would allow continuous verification of subject mastery as instruction was still underway. Teachers would be able to receive constant feedback about progress or the lack thereof and then make informed decisions about the best learning path for each student. Thus, individual students could spend more or less time, as needed, on certain modules. And as long as the end result - mastery - was the same for all, the process and time allotted for achieving it need not be uniform." The "module" focus is a little disturbing but the rest is helpful.
Gary Brown

Educational Malpractice: Making Colleges Accountable - Commentary - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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accountability careers learning

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  • It is crucial that we also develop a wider and deeper body of scientifically valid higher-learning theory. The boom years actually put colleges behind elementary and secondary schools in the development of learning science: how the brain functions, how students learn, what teaching tools work best, how to help all students—not just those who are already academically accomplished—succeed, and the like. I hear calls everywhere for better teaching in higher education, but that is hard to accomplish when the science of higher learning remains relatively primitive.
Nils Peterson

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 3 | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • If open courseware is about applying technology to sharing knowledge, and Peer2Peer is about social networking for teaching and learning, Bob Mendenhall, president of the online Western Governors University, is proudest of his college's innovation in the third, hardest-to-crack dimension of education: accreditation and assessment.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Spoke too soon
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09
     
    "We said, 'Let's create a university that actually measures learning,' " Mendenhall says. "We do not have credit hours, we do not have grades. We simply have a series of assessments that measure competencies, and on that basis, award the degree." WGU began by convening a national advisory board of employers, including Google and Tenet Healthcare. "We asked them, 'What is it the graduates you're hiring can't do that you wish they could?' We've never had a silence after that question." Then assessments were created to measure each competency area. Mendenhall recalls one student who had been self-employed in IT for 15 years but never earned a degree; he passed all the required assessments in six months and took home his bachelor's without taking a course.
Joshua Yeidel

Simple Data View screen cast - 0 views

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sharepoint

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Aug 09
     
    Silent screencast shows creation and customization of a simple Data View Web Part to display an RSS Feed.
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