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Technology and Education Box of Tricks

Instructional technology tools... features and functions, categorized.

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

"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..."

This article has some details on how to delete accounts from social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Good primer.

PDF JAMES PAUL GEE University of Wisconsin-Madison

From the description: "Dr. Curtis Bonk's TravelinEdman distance education videos. Curt Bonk is Professor at Indiana University and President of CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan."

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/

"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."

"Will Apple's iPad kill the textbook?"

"Summary: This course provides practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g. workload, intellectual property, etc.) The course includes interviews from a number of teachers who have taught in an online environment. This course is based on a training session offered to faculty who teach at The World Campus at Penn State University."

"ents in a large introductory microeconomics "

"Our Setup Wizard renders the code you need to implement a specific JW Player 5 setup. It's also a useful tool to experiment to see what's possible with the player."

Levels of Bloom's with iPad apps for each level.

"ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) - Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone -- for more than 30 years, the notion that teaching methods should match a student's particular learning style has exerted a powerful influence on education. The long-standing popularity of the learning styles movement has in turn created a thriving commercial market amongst researchers, educators, and the general public."

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

"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."

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.