MVCR Tech Tools

Alexander Hamilton's quote on the French Revolution

Article about delivering educational activities using Web 2.0 tools.

My computer keeps freezing on this site.

I found this link to a great article regarding encouraging online discussion. I found this using Diigo.

This is a good introductory treatment of Social Constructivism, which sets the stage well for what social networking tools might be able to do for us in education.

Teachers keeping up with technology

E-Learning Magazine

Is anyone familiar with Mathematica?

An interesting article about online delivery versus face to face.

There are some VERY interesting articles listed here - - and a few of them I have shared with our Online Learning Director, and we both feel they will be very good resources for us.

tools and constructivism

Love that the "practical descriptions of constructivist learning" listed in the article "[C]onstructivist learning should engage students in meaningful learning and ... the critical features are that the learning should be ... * Active and manipulative, engaging students in interactions and explorations with learning materials and provid[ing] opportunities for them to observe the results of their manipulations * Constructive and reflective, enabling students to integrate new ideas with prior knowledge to make meaning and enable learning through reflection * Intentional, providing opportunities for students to articulate their learning goals and monitor their progress in achieving them * Authentic, challenging and real-world (or simulated), facilitating better understanding and transfer of learning to new situations * Cooperative, collaborative, and conversational, providing students with opportunities to interact with each other to clarify and share ideas, to seek assistance, to negotiate problems, and discuss solutions."

Are we providing as 21st century education if we don't teach how to use these new forms of communication?

I think it depends on the course and the course learning objectives. Social networking may not be a tool that aids in encoding course content and thus, would be inappropriate to include.

Archived Eluminate Live presentations

Mind map from keynote speech. Interesting stats and figures

TED video from 2007 about next 5000 days of web.

This wiki is for educators and includes ideas for using twitter in the classroom.

This band opened at the Empty Bottle last night. They ripped. I do not believe they made any Camus references.

At the Empty Bottle--no cover, totally rocking. They're called "The Pack A.D."

The Conflict between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future