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Good paper about how a Duke professor is "crowdsourcing" the grading process - outsourcing grades to the entire class (the "crowd").

An interesting focus, to say the least. I would like to know how it is working for her.

List of top 10 tools for learning - compiled by learning professionals

This is a most interesting list--and it certainly indicates that we are headed in the right direction.

From the song: "Prepare us for our future, and not your past." I want to show this video to the folks at my institution who resist using technology in their teaching. Preparing students for their future includes preparing them to be able to pick up and learn new technologies quickly. It's not the technology itself that students need to learn - what's current today will be obsolete in a few years; it's the willingness and ability to learn a new one as needed.

You are right, Carol. This is becoming a vital issue--teachers have never been noted for eagerness ti change, but without use of technology, we are not only not reaching more students, but we are, in too many cases, negating possible education. The students, too, must step up to current technological changes and feel comfortable with where they are headed.

Pros and cons of using Twitter in education are discussed.

Carol--this sounds like a good article for those of us who have not yet ventured into the "twitter" world. Thanks for your thoughts.

Great new survey from KC Green at the Campus Computing Project.

Inside higher ed article on support for free online courses at community colleges (sorry about the tags -- I don't know how to change them once I've submitted?)

Explores the development of online learning in UK higher education as a case study to illustrate the difficulties created by an over-reliance on technology push and a failure to understand and respond to market needs.

This is an web-based authoring tool that allows one to create an interactive lesson, and export it as a SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 object which can be imported into a LMS. One can add a variety of media such as voice, text, video, and still images. One can also import a PowerPoint presentation. An interesting feature is that one can intersperse assessment screens to check student learning. Assessments can be graded or non-graded.

This blog is an interview with Stewart Mader who writes extensively about uses of wikis in education and in the business world. He offers numerous educational uses for wikis in the classroom.

Provocative article about First Amendment, free speech, minors, privacy - it has it all!

Article from Forbes about "proper social networking etiquette" - guidelines for using Facebook and other social networking tools