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Mathieu Plourde

Making Common Cause: Electronic Portfolios, Learning, and the Power of Community | Academic Commons - 0 views

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    Here, excerpting from the conclusion to this volume, we consider how electronic portfolios provide a vehicle for a transition into the future of higher education.
Mathieu Plourde

Emerging technology for active learning - ITUE 2009 - 0 views

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    Emerging technology for active learning. Our discussion will build upon ideas from provocative popular authors along with emerging research from higher education.
Mathieu Plourde

Research Study on Ubiquitous Learning (uLearning) - 0 views

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    "The dawn of uLearning: near-future directions for 21st century educators." The diagram above is a concept map of what is discussed in this thesis, and the paper is a good review of the literature.
Mathieu Plourde

Wikis in Higher Education (and at UD) - 0 views

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    My wiki project web page. Focuses a lot on the wiki tool in Sakai.
Mathieu Plourde

Innovation for Underdogs: How to Make the Leap from What If to Now What: David Pensak, Elizabeth Licorish - 0 views

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    Have you ever wanted to change your life? Make it easier or, at least, get rid of the tough stuff? Have you ever simply asked yourself, "What if?" Anyone who wants a void filled, a problem solved, or a question answered, can learn to innovate. And it doesn't matter how much education you have or how high you sit on the corporate ladder. If you think that learning innovation means reading boring instructional manuals and paying a fortune for classes, you're wrong.
Mathieu Plourde

RINET Selects The rSmart Group to Provide a Statewide ePortfolio Solution for All Rhode Island K-12 Students By 2008 - 0 views

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    The rSmart Group, Inc. (rSmart) today announced they have been selected by Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, Inc. (RINET) and its consortium membership made up of RI's K-12 schools and districts to implement and support the statewide initiative to make ePortfolios available to all K-12 students by 2008. RINET will support the rSmart OSP ePortfolio(TM) to improve RI districts' ability to monitor and measure student performance and progress while allowing individual students to demonstrate skills, knowledge and abilities.
Mathieu Plourde

Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter - 0 views

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    What's the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make? Here are some answers that you might like to share.
Mathieu Plourde

Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study - 0 views

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    observations at a specific urban university in the mid-west, shows vast variation in terms of faculty who choose to utilize online instructional technologies and a significant lag in desired online development.
Mathieu Plourde

Using the Power of Twitter: Building Online Learning - 0 views

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    I realize there are many amazing posts on the merits of using Twitter to develop a PLN. I also realize that there already exists dozens of collections of tools for making the most of Twitter.
Mathieu Plourde

Back Chanelling - The Latest Form of Group Discussion - 0 views

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    In the era of technology students do not pass notes or try and whisper quietly to one another, they send text messages from their cell phones or Facebook messages to one another if on a computer during class. These actions are done silently and do not cause a disruption in the classroom. But is it distracting? Maybe. Is it beneficial? I think so.
Mathieu Plourde

CBC Radio Interview on Twitter - 0 views

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    I was recently interviewed by Sheila Coles of the Morning Edition about Twitter. We talked about some of the implications of Twitter for teaching, learning, and privacy. The full interview is available here.
Mathieu Plourde

Using a Flip Video Camera in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Here's a quick video I recorded in which I share some ideas for how to use a Flip video camera in your classroom.
Mathieu Plourde

The student candidate video everyone's talking about - 0 views

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    I've been watching with some interest Internet discussions about a campaign video commissioned by Emily Rowe in her run for student president at The UWO. The video is play on the Discovery Channel's popular "Boom De Ya Da!" ad. Instead of the world, the players in the video love Western.
Mathieu Plourde

Cyber Teachers' Institute Series - 0 views

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    Join us in this stimulating online program designed to bring teachers together to learn from each other, evaluate best teaching practices, and search for solutions to the unique challenges of the online environment. The engaging dialogue on teaching is the highlight of CTI.
Mathieu Plourde

Learning Through Social Media - 0 views

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    Mapping potential processes of informal learning through social media
Mathieu Plourde

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) - Political engagement among college freshmen hits 40-year high - 0 views

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    College freshman are more politically engaged today than at any point during the last 40 years, with 89.5 percent reporting that they frequently or occasionally discussed politics in the last year, according to UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year institutions.
Mathieu Plourde

Imagining College Without Grades - 0 views

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    The closest they came to a fan was an associate provost who admitted that he saw grade inflation as completely out of control and said that for more students at his and similar institutions, the grade-point average range is around 3.4 to 3.8. It seemed that everyone else in the room had been motivated to attend by their sense that the system isn't working: Other academic administrators who said grades had become meaningless.
Mathieu Plourde

ConnectYard - Courses in Facebook - 0 views

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    With ConnectYard you can: - Bring along your Facebook identity and friends - Find students in your classes that share mutual friends - Share materials and calendars with your study groups - Receive notifications via Facebook and text message - Setup real-time whiteboards and group conference calls
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