As more books and journals become easily accessible online, it’s easy to wonder if brick-and-mortar libraries could go the way of the video store. But research at the university has shown that the more people look to digital resources, the more they consult physical materials as well, according to Judith Nadler, director of the University of Chicago Library.
University of Chicago's new Mansueto Library | wordlessTech - 1 views
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I know, I know, online research methods, but darn it if this doesn't just get me all excited.
YouTube - Knowledge Navigator (1987) Apple Computer - 1 views
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Apple's vision of the future, from 1987. They got the iPad part down pretty good, except they completely missed Angry Birds. Makes you wonder what people are envisioning for 2035. More awesome, Coming soon to a life near you!
The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors
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Virginia’s integrated course system is possible because the business school is swimming in money
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How could Social Media integrate these various fields, without hierarchical structures imposing a cost? Let the network find a way?
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Education Week: At-Risk Kids Treated as 'Gifted' Perform Better, Study Finds - 1 views
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The training of teachers is key, said Margaret Gayle, co-designer of the program and director of the American Association for Gifted Children at Duke. The program was designed to give teachers new skills tailored for advanced students. "They challenge students more; they do more with problem-based learning," she said. "They get a lot of higher-level instructional strategies, they know better how to motivate kids."
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Should we all be following this approach?
Want to learn Pashto? There's an app for that.: IU Home Pages: Faculty and staff news f... - 1 views
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Language specialists at Indiana University have developed a new application for the iPad that will help people working in strategic areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan to read and write in Pashto, one of the region's primary languages.
Portal 2 Authoring Tools open to everyone - 1 views
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The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2. They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music.
Raph's Website » Gamification - 1 views
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Gamification, including examples from Nike, health month (the game), Khan academy, Nissan's MyLeaf, the email game, etc. Great quote "Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without using force." Zichermann Great slideshare, but time consuming.
Webcasting and Lecture Capture Solutions | Desire2Learn® Capture - 1 views
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A very interesting solution for lecture capture that I would like to see reviewed.
Rubrics for Web 2.0 Assignments - 1 views
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A collection of examples of rubrics used for assessing Web 2.0-based assignments (Twitter, Blogs, Wiki, Podcasts, multimedia, gaming, etc...)
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This is a good starting point to share with faculty and IDs who are looking for ways to assess assignments in new media. It should only be a starting point though. Not every blog/twitter/multimedia assignment is created equally.
Banana TV - 1 views
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What is Banana TV? Banana TV lets you use AirPlay (and now AirTunes!) for your Mac as well - play video or images from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2 or higher directly onto any networked Mac.
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Could be an interesting option for enabling AirPlay on classroom machines. Lots to figure out, but a starting point.
Mendeley Guide - 1 views
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Here's a libraries' created basic guide to using the reference manager Mendeley. Have you tried Mendeley yet?
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thanks for this. we're using mendeley for a working group right now. it took a little while to get used to, but definitely has potential for sharing resources. will have to check out the highlighting and annotation tools.
Peer Review Process - English 202C: Technical Writing - 1 views
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Below is the process we will follow for peer review in this class. This post will take you through the following steps: 1.) Emailing your draft to your peer reviewer 2.) Opening your peer's draft in iAnnotate and adding your comments 3.) Emailing your comments to your peer, and 4.) Turning in your commented draft.
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A great set of instructions from Patricia on how to use the iPad in a peer review mode.
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I talked about this process in my presentation at Abilene. Michael Farris (from last semester's pilot) said this was the most effective use of iPads in this class, and that students were actually more engaged with peer review in class doing it this way vs. on paper. -
It might be a good idea to get the English 202 people together to share their experiences a bit with us ... maybe just as a moderated conversation.
Digital Textbooks, the Cloud, and the State of E-books « The Xplanation - 1 views
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While the attention of many was focused on the annual BookExpo America (BEA) hoopla this week, there were some interesting developments taking place in the digital textbook space.
Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer | ZDNet - 1 views
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I realize this is Violet Blue, but still, it's a good reminder that when a service changes hands, it's more than likely the TOS will change, too. Now that I've moved, I'm really not that interested in maintaining bookmarks in both.
What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 1 views
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What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions,”
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“If you want to understand life,” Dawkins wrote, “don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.”
Intro to GLaDOS 101: A Professor's Decision to Teach Portal - Giant Bomb - 1 views
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"This is a course about what it means to be human, focused on some of the enduring questions our existence inevitably raises for us. The goals of this course reflect this focus."You roll your eyes, figuring the next four (or five (or six)) years were supposed to be about shaping your own destiny, learning how to drink alcohol without throwing up and playing a bunch of games until some ungodly hour in the morning. Grudgingly, you look at the reading list. Gilgamesh, Aristotle, Goffman, Donne, Portal....Portal. No, you haven't misread. But understandably, you look closer.Week 4February 7: Montaigne, Essays, selectedFebruary 9: Goffman, Presentation of Self, Introduction and Ch. 1February 11: Portal (video game developed by Valve Software)
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"She's got her forestage and she's got her backstage, the stuff she doesn't want you to see," he said. "The game does an amazing job of slowly peeling back her veneer, and the stuff she doesn't want you to see or know is so slowly revealed. Those students started to exchange stories about what they saw behind the scenes or writing on the walls, little stuff they would find, little artifacts. That really provoked a lot of interesting connections between the Goffman text and GLaDOS as a character, as a personality, and the way that the environment is an extension of her and her personality. That really clicked."
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Interesting read regarding the game Portal being used in a freshman humanities course, alongside classics like Gilgamesh and readings about Aristotle.
In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Some technology blogs call it being “acqhired.” The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition, and it typically comes with a price per head.
Joho the Blog » Why you won't care that the Net isn't neutral - 0 views
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With so little competition, the access providers will be able to jack up fast lane prices as high as the richest players in the market can bear. So, let’s say Google decides to pay the access providers for “fast lane” service, but Bing does not. You’ll notice that Google results fly in, while Bing seems to be having trouble digesting its oatmeal. You won’t know if that’s because Bing’s search engine is slower or because it didn’t pony up for fast lane service. All you’ll know is that you’re not going back to Bing.
Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » Tenure awarded based in part on Wikipedia con... - 0 views
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apropos of shirky's talk, the story of a faculty member whose participation with wikipedia helped him to achieve tenure.
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