IUPUI CTL

"You probably remember going to school with the teacher at the front of the room and the students sitting quietly in neat rows. But education has changed; now students work in groups and participate actively in class. Even homework is different. Vodcasting is changing the role of the teacher in the classroom. "

Had an issue with this, mostly because of the way the article ended, with the euphemism "unwilling to engage in the writing process." Dr Free-Ride (blogger) responded to this in a way I would suspect most faculty would. http://scientopia.org/blogs/ethicsandscience/2010/08/02/college-kids-and-their-plagiarism-or-college-professors-and-their-quaint-insistence-on-proper-citation-of-sources/

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Good starting point, plus lots of links. Maybe this could be a future tech workshop?

"Games, simulations, and virtual worlds provide educators with an opportunity to engage learners in an immersive and interactive environment that requires knowledge, decision making, and information management skills. However, the use of immersive learning environments can be controversial; their association with play and fun is often considered noneducational. Even so, games, simulations, and virtual worlds are gaining increased cultural acceptance. Research suggests that these environments can play a significant role in facilitating learning through engagement, group participation, immediate feedback, and providing real-world contexts."

"Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."

"WebTools4U2Use will introduce you to a lot of different tools. But how do you choose the right one? And how do you keep up with all the new and often better tools? Here are some ideas..."

PDF JAMES PAUL GEE University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Digital games have the potential to bring play back to the learning experience"

Website dedicated to the ICMPA study that had 200 UMCP students give up ALL media for 24 hours and then blog about their experiences.

Successful online students share their secrets on how they have succeeded in the online environment. The pointers in this article will also help those instructors who are new to online teaching.

Article on ways the iPad can be integrated or will be integrated into Education.

First in series of articles about the changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "The exemption on the cracking of [Content Scrambling Systems] now extends to all college and university instructors, as well as students in film and media studies courses, and the permitted "educational uses" now include critical commentary and documentary production, as well as the exceptionally broad category of "non-commercial videos."

More information about the DVDs "Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs" http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Letting-Us-Rip-Our-New-Right/25797/

Adobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 today--the latest move in the Chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning his back on the platform.

"Blackboard announced on Wednesday it is buying out two software companies in an effort to bolster its real-time collaboration features and satisfy a generation of professors and students increasingly shaped by social media. The company, infamous to some in higher education for its habit of swallowing up smaller fish, said it is buying Wimba and Elluminate, top providers of software that lets students work together online, for a total of $116 million."

"New York University plans to join the growing movement to publish academic material online as free, open courseware. But in addition to giving away content-something other colleges have done-NYU plans a more ambitious experiment. The university wants to explore ways to reprogram the roles of professors in large undergraduate classes, using technology to free them up for more personal instruction."

Technology and Education Box of Tricks