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another ipad app for screencasting. as far as I know, this is the first example of an app from one of the big established screen capture software companies.

I downloaded it (for free). It's very nice. I tried ShowMe before, which also lets you write and record what you're saying, but there is too much of a time delay between your drawing and it showing up on the iPad. ScreenChomp is much faster. Another advantage is that you can see your recording before posting it.

we had the same delay complaint with showme. also didn't like that there were no export options outside of posting to their site.

Lessons for the TLT website?

This is a fantastic resource for anyone working on the research side of blogs. I've been looking for a meta-analysis of blog research for a while now, and this appears to be the home run so far. 311 articles reviewed. Millet - this is one example of how we might structure a lecture capture meta-analysis.

I need one of these for podcasting!

"Eighty-seven percent of college students surveyed said they considered their institution's technology when selecting their college. This finding is also reflected in CDW-G's 21st-Century Classroom Report, which looked at educational technology in K-12 and found that 92 percent of current high school students say technology is an important consideration as they evaluate colleges. "

Oh - and it reminds me of the University of Michigan learning spaces designs - Cole took pictures. I think it's their North Quad.

I wasn't able to download the report w/o creating an account, but I'm curious *what* technologies are important to students as it pertains to selecting a university. Another highlight claimed that both faculty and students find 'virtual learning' and 'e-reader/mobile technologies' important. Not sure if those are the top 2 things kids look at when selecting a university...I would find that somewhat hard to believe. I know bandwidth cap still plays a role here in terms of on-campus housing post freshman year. Wonder if that also plays a role in university selection.

"Created by Wolfram Research, makers of the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine, the Computable Document Format (CDF) enables users to interact with online documents, input their own data, and generate results, live." Wonder if these will be usable on e-readers?

Desire2Learn adds Google+ to its list of profile linking tools that already includes Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Interesting case of instructor getting a low SRDP after he tells class he has identified plagiarism. He suggests peer review instead Turnitin.

I think it's all how you approach it. Andrew and I have both caught students plagiarizing before we handled those issues privately. It never affected our ratings from the other students because they never knew that it happened. From the professor's blog post and response to this article, it sounds like he did a public witch hunt. Have you caught students cheating before? How did you handle the issue?

I would agree with you about privacy, but if enough students are caught in one incident, word will get around. Ironically, all of the incidents I had to deal with were because of collaboration gone too far. I try to warn students about what I expect ("your own words") , but I think I will be ramping up training on how to really avoid academic dishonesty issues this semester.

Not only does tech allow disperse communities to communicate, but it can also involve and motivate a younger generation to get involved in a minority language.

Good article. You know CHAT (the learning theory), right? I like it because it considers our tools and environment as part of how we (collectively) learn. Our cell phones and laptops and Google are part of the equation. So yes, Allan's brain may remember less at a given time, but Allan+iPhone+Google remembers many orders of magnitude more and with much more accuracy.

We talked about this quite a bit in our Disruptive Technologies course with Cole and Scott in terms of distributed intelligence, which is similar to what you're saying in that the tools we use are extensions of our minds. Maybe it's because I'm a SciFi geek and have read so many post-apocalyptic books, or perhaps it's just that I know technology too well to trust it, but my biggest fear about what this research is suggesting is that, should our technology disappear, we'll all turn into gibbering idiots because half our mind has been turned off, literally. Realistically, I know that the human brain is much more plastic and our memory would reconfigure itself eventually. And the benefits of extending ourselves like this probably outweigh the risks. But it still gives you pause for thought..

Right now, our dependence on instant gratification knowledge isn't too bad, I'm sure we'd have a feeling of disconnection and lots of frustration. I'd consider buying a set of encyclopedias again. I worry more about a scenario like running out of fuel without energy alternatives. The human race is so dependent on fuel for food production and transportation that we'd run into a starvation issue very quickly. We've lost our survival skills and there are just too many of us.

Nothing too interesting here, but the instructions for resetting a chromebook so it can have a new "owner" is valuable. 

"In this post, I will argue that cutting journals out of scientific publishing to a large extent would be unconditionally a good thing, and that the only thing keeping this from happening is the absence of a "killer app"."

This is basically a platform agnostic ebook model...libraries buy the content and users can place them on whatever device they want. It's in beta and they have 100,000 titles so far. Seems like the way to go to me!

By danah boyd ... on taking an email sabbatical.

Interesting examples of how schools are getting more engagement out of students (even when lecture size has doubled) based simply on the design of the classroom and experience.

"Hoping to give its users a more intimate way to stay in touch, Facebook on Wednesday introduced video chatting inside its online social network through a deal with Skype, the Internet calling service. "

Interesting partnership between two communication giants. Much of the rest of the article discusses this as a counter-attack on Google+. Honestly, this must have been in the works for a while, but it's also okay if it is true. When companies feel the need to innovate to stay competitive, users win.

more thoughts on using wordpress to build "books".

Example of online publishing as part of a grad program.