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Nancy Lumpkin

EBSCOhost: The Net Generation in the Classroom - 1 views

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shared by Nancy Lumpkin on 12 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The article focuses on the use of modern technology to teach new generation of college students. According to Richard T. Sweency, university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, today's college students, sometimes called the Net Generation or the Millennials, will soon alter the way professors teach, the way classrooms are constructed, and the way colleges deliver degrees. Born between roughly 1980 and 1994, the Millennials have already been pegged and defined by academics, trend spotters, and futurists: They are smart but impatient. They expect results immediately.
Danny Thorne

Group "Alert settings" - 1 views

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shared by Danny Thorne on 15 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Danny Thorne on 15 Jul 10
     
    ...in case you want to adjust if/when you get email updates about group activity.
  • Danny Thorne on 15 Jul 10
     
    BTW, I did this post partly to test the new Capture feature.
Helen Beaven

EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education - Small Wonders - 0 views

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shared by Helen Beaven on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The institutions whose notebook initiatives have proved to be the most enduring “have a clear and compelling curricular vision” for the role of computers inside and outside the classroom
  • Start with professors. “You’re going to have to invest in the faculty,” says Michael Zastrocky, vice president and education industry research director at Gartner. “Let them have the machines a year before you give them out to the students, and provide them with training. It gets them comfortable, and gives them time to learn how they are going to use them in the classroom.”
    • Helen Beaven
      Helen Beaven on 31 Jan 11
       
      This is absolutely important for any kind of incentive program. You must allow your faculty to train and learn any new technology before it can be applied in an effective manner.
  • Small colleges that have thriving one-to-one computing programs say success hinges not on the machines’ technical details but on understanding how to use them.
    • Helen Beaven
      Helen Beaven on 31 Jan 11
       
      Though this article discusses on-to-one computing programs, this success of understanding how to use a technology will be essential regardless of the device, software, etc. Faculty will need to understand how a new technology functions before they can implement it .
Danny Thorne

Seton Hill University - Griffin Technology Advantage - iPads for EVERYONE! - 1 views

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shared by Danny Thorne on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Seton Hill University will give a new Apple iPad to every full-time student in fall 2010.
Danny Thorne

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    These two views allow you to selectively expand and collapse items associated with each entry.
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    (Playing again with Capture.)
Danny Thorne

Tame The Web, re: Flipboard for iPad - 2 views

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shared by Danny Thorne on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Not only can individuals have a social magazine constantly updating at their fingertips, but groups could someday have tailor made versions of Flipboard for their own content – think a class of students or a certain community. Then, add in channels of content supplied by libraries – local info, user-generated digital collections and news.
Danny Thorne

Presenting with Twitter and other backchannels - 0 views

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shared by Danny Thorne on 16 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere. I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate.
Nancy Lumpkin

Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Lumpkin on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Will this mash-up of online and offline learning become the new normal elsewhere, too?
  • The Chronicle spent three days trailing Ms. Black, Mr. Harrison, and Ms. Hatten to get a closer look at how that shift is changing the student experience
  • There isn't much downtime in her schedule. The hybrid class she has next—a fast-growing style here—helps her pull off that packed course load.
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  • about 75 percent of online students were already on the campus or lived nearby
  • hybrid university
  • Blended classes generate the highest student evaluations of any learning mode at Central Florida
  • Mr. Harrison, the accounting major, takes a business class with more than 1,000 students. The lectures are given live, he says, in a room that fits 68.
  • There's a lot of distractions that come with putting courses on the Internet.
  • e-mail students, call them, tweet them, Facebook them, chat with them
  • Beyond course announcements, Ms. Hatten's interactions with the professor have been limited to one e-mail exchange.
  • If you want to encounter distance education, a student once said, sit in the back of a 500-seat lecture.
  • Teaching and learning are inextricably linked in a shared process.
  • close UCF, for surely it is not serious about university level education
  • streaming recorded content, which is not online learning
  • a good education is not a product but an experience
  • the current culture views us as providing a product not an experience
  • Online education will eventually denigrate into the 500-seat classroom, minus the classroom.
  • he convenience of online classes can be a slacker's paradise. Schedule the right mix, and you might not have to face a live professor before 1:30 in the afternoon. Which means you can stay out until 4 in the morning and still sleep nearly eight hours. Not only that: Some students talk about online classes being so easy a caveman could pass them. In a test, there's no one telling you that you can't look at the book, says Ariel Hatten, 20, a junior and nursing major who considers her online class an easy A.
  • "No one enforces you to do the right thing" in an online course, Ms. Hatten says. "It's at your discretion. I care about my grade, so if I don't know the answer, I'm not gonna let myself fail when I have an opportunity to look in the book."
  • . For her finance class, there's a quiz on Chapter 4. Basic stuff—10 questions, open book. And there's also a discussion question to answer: "What is working capital, and where is it listed on the balance sheet?" "That's more or less your participation for the class," she says.
  • Mr. Choi, who teaches tourism management, worries some students may view the reduced class schedule as time off.
  • I still have a phobia and a concern," he says. "Maybe I should still talk about a few basic things to some of the students who probably enjoyed the football yesterday and didn't do anything for the class."
  • Mr. Harrison catches some lectures and skips others. He likes the freedom of these video classes. Learning online can also be a challenge. "You can walk through the library, and literally, you'll see students who are watching a lecture but also have Facebook open right behind it," he says. "And, it's sort of like, 'How much time are you spending on each frame? Are you actively taking notes, or are you just chatting with your friends?'
  • Once the shaggy-haired fraternity rusher learned to manipulate the system, though, he ended up handling so much of his course work online that his actual butt-at-a-desk class time has shrunk to about six hours a week.
Nancy Lumpkin

Top Ten iPad uses list - 8 views

There are a number of apps that will aid grading on your iPad. One is iannotate which allows you to mark pdfs on the ipad. Also, a stylus can allow professor to add handwritten notes to their iPa...

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