For students tired of fiddling with crayons and watercolors or who want to move beyond playing tunes on the recorder, the Web provides a wealth of tools that allow students to express themselves in non-linguistic ways.

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Here are some ways that I'm using RSS at my school and in my professional life to make things easier and to tie things together. 

Using this same idea, students have to write a reflection about their GCW Trips (Global Citizen's Week) that we went on last week. The trip leaders don't have all the student blog addresses and we want the students to own the reflection, we want it to become part of their learning/eporfolio here at ISB.

Animation projects are a great way to integrate technology, encourage project-based learning and have a lot of fun. This month let's take a quick tour of seven Web 2.0 animation sites for students young and old. 

Moving up a level of complexity is DigitalFilms.com. Like Fluxtime, numerous backgrounds and objects are provided. A character creator is also included so students can make characters that look just like them. You can add actions and text to the characters and then share them online.

« Zombies attack small screen in 'The Syfy cancels 'Caprica,' final 5 episodes » Matt Lauria on 'Friday Night Lights': 'I felt so privileged' Curt Wagner on 10.27.10 at 8:10 PM | no comments | Curt Wagner I patrol TV ... and other things. But mostly TV. I like my couch. Follow on: Facebook Twitter var retweet_source = 'showpatrol'; var post_title = 'Matt%20Lauria%20on%20%27Friday%20Night%20Lights%27%3A%20%27I%20felt%20so%20privileged%27'; Share Facebook (7) Retweet (13) Stumble Matt Lauria checks out RedEye at The Bourgeois Pig on Fullerton. The "Friday Night Lights" star is filming "The Chicago Code" in the Windy City. (Show Patrol photo) Matt Lauria misses his "Friday Night Lights" character, Luke Cafferty. The actor wrapped his scenes in Austin, Texas, on a Saturday in late July, hopped a plane to Chicago and began filming Fox's "The Chicago Code" (formerly "Ride-Along") on Monday. He's been working in the Windy City since then, living in Lincoln Park with his musician wife, Michelle Armstrong, trying out the local dining scene and riding bikes on the Lakefront Path. I met with Lauria Saturday to talk about the final season of "FNL," which debuted Oct. 27 on DirecTV 101. "Friday Night Lights" follows the football-loving town of Dillon, Texas, its two high school teams and Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), who has coached both the teams. Lauria hasn't played any football since wrapping "FNL," but during our chat at The Bourgeois Pig he got a bit sentimental about Luke, the running back who last year was forced to leave the champion Dillon Panthers team and play for Coach with the lowly East Dillon Lions. "I always felt a closeness to Luke ever since he got kicked off the team. I just kind of related to him somehow," Lauria told me. "I'm not a football player, but I just knew where his heart was and how that disappointment felt."

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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.

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

At the end of February, McGraw-Hill’s Macmillan unit unveiled a new electronic book imprint, DynamicBooks, that will let professors create their own textbooks, using their own material as well as materials developed by Macmillan. "Basically, they will go online, log on to the authoring tool, have the content right there and make whatever changes they want," Brian Napack, president of Macmillan, told The New York Times. "And we don’t even look at it."

Students will pay about one-third as much as the the paper-bound version's list price.

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.