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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.

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

"Copyright law does include exemptions for professors who wish to use audiovisual media "in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction" - so long as the professor is not showing media that he or she knows has been made illegally. The university said streaming the video on a password-protected Web site, where only students who are registered members of the class can access it, satisfies these criteria. But the trade group is arguing that a password-protected space on the Web is not a classroom. "The face-to-face teaching exemption allows a video to be played in class, not streamed to the classroom from a remote location," Dohra said in an e-mail."

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.

Moore, M. "Theory of transactional distance." Keegan, D., ed. "Theoretical Principles of Distance Education (1997), Routledge, pp. 22-38. Michael G. Moore's theory of transactional distance

List of blog sites covering tech in education, innovation, tech resources for teachers, virtual worlds, etc.

"Bloom's Taxonomy is simply a way to connect [instructional technologies, particularly Web 2.0 tools,] to those that would be identified with the Affective, Psychomotor, or Cognitive domains--specifically the Cognitive."

Jane Hart focuses on tools for learning and comprises various "top pick" lists based upon her own and other learning professionals' suggestions.

Great resource blog.

"Strutta is a really neat site that lets you very easily create contests (for free) where people can enter videos, images, or text. Multiple winners can be judged by popular vote or by the contest creators. It has a ton of other "bells & whistles," too. Teachers can set-up these contests or, even better, students can create their own." (http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/10/04/the-best-web-20-applications-for-education-2009/)

Offers pros and cons for these screencasting software products, plus links to other reviews and tools (e.g., BB Flashback)

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.

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.