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Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that’s especially true for educators.

That’s why working with other educators in personal learning networks (PLNs) has become as important in an educator’s day as the time he or she spends teaching in class. Below is a short list of PLNs that already exist, followed by some resources to help teachers build their own

The Educator’s PLN is a Ning site (or online platform for creating your own social network) that facilitates connections between educators.

educators have been encouraged to change roles again and again as we become more familiar with the capabilities of the technology and its uses in instruction.

instructors have been presented with the challenge of moving from center stage to more of a support role--a facilitator

we no longer need to be the sole source of all information nor the one who presents every aspect of the course or who controls how information is presented and re-presented for evaluation

In todays, computer-centered society, designing interactive media has emerged as a new profession. Interactive design is often associated with spread of computers as a communication and interaction tool. However, interactive design has been a staple of artists and designers for many centuries. We present a historical perspective upon interactive design and point out the close relationship of this field with different fields of art and design. We argue that interactive media design is a distinct and evolving field and that it is imperative to teach it as such. In this paper, we have adopted this perspective and detailed a new four-year under-graduate curriculum on interactive media design education. This curriculum stresses the various components of interactive media design and its close relationship with computer science. art and design - currculum design - interactive mediaThis revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. Fulltext Preview SPRINGER.Ads = ((typeOf (SPRINGER.Ads) === 'undefined')|| !SPRINGER.Ads) ? {} : SPRINGER.Ads;SPRINGER.Ads.Google = {keywords :"art and design currculum design interactive media"} google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); Share this Item email citeulike Connotea Delicious Frequently asked questions General info on journals and books Send us your feedback Impressum Contact us © Springer, Part of Springer Science+Business Media Privacy, Disclaimer, Terms & Conditions, and Copyright Info Not Logged InNot RecognizedRemote Address: 66.192.104.10Server: MPWEB41HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-6028168-1");pageTracker._trackPageview(); //  close Username Password Remember Me ct

In a recent survey, Teachers Network found that 80 percent of teachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching practice.

The role of Learning Management Systems has changed dramatically over the last ten years. The first higher education learning management systems were places for professors to place materials and students to submit assignments. These were different from Content Management Systems, which allowed learners to follow a learning path through a course, grading systems, which kept track of grades, enrollment systems, which allowed students to enroll in classes, student accounting systems, which tracked payments and expenses, data warehouses, which allow analysts to mine the various systems for actionable trends, and all the other myriad systems that schools use to run their academics and operations.

Today, in both K12 and postsecondary, there is a growing need to integrate these systems. In higher education, schools have tried to patch together brittle middleware applications to bridge the various systems. This has not been an issue yet for K12, because of low penetration of the LMS into public schools. But federal calls for increased use of data, and the need to handle more students and show better results, with decreased resources will likely hasten the introduction of the LMS in elementary and secondary schools.

as the third or fourth place word processor. Excel was the second most popular spreadsheet. Forefront was selling the second most popular presentation program, called PowerPoint. Microsoft bought Forefront, and then integrated the three applications into one bundle, MS Office, which has controlled the desktop word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation market for over 15 years.

As a teacher, you can create a free teacher account through which you can create student accounts. Diigo's student accounts require no email address, can be kept private, and can also be grouped so that students can share resources they find with each other. 

While observing my students using Diigo, I noticed that they were actually reading the site and highlighting the information they wanted to keep.  This was different from previous years where they just copied blindly.  In addition, they could easily return to where they left off the previous class. 

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