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Mathieu Plourde

Wiki Content Is Not Sacred, and That's OK - 0 views

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    Wiki use calls for a simple trade-off of control for content, perfection for timeliness. The more the members of an organization can contribute freely, the more contribution will happen. In return, employees will feel safe contributing, and the wiki will be more likely to serve its purpose.
Mathieu Plourde

Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter Climbs - 0 views

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    With Facebook officially turning five years old recently, combined with the site surging past MySpace in Monthly Unique Visitors, it seems like a good time to take a little deeper look at the social networking giants.
Mathieu Plourde

I wanna be Andre Malan. There, I said it! - 0 views

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    Here's an undergraduate student at UBC articulating a vision for the future that I so thoroughly agree with that it is fills me with a sense of unbounded hope and encouragement.
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

Is Canada Facebook-Saturated? - 0 views

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    Toronto was the first city to break the one million user mark, and in some cities non-Facebook users are in the minority. This article examines evidence that Facebook is reaching saturation levels in Canada.
Mathieu Plourde

UD computer science students create teaching aids - 0 views

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    Three teams of four students spent Winter Session collaboratively problem solving how to manipulate Myro robots and how to create learning games for young children who have received an XO laptop from the One Laptop per Child program.
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

Are you down with UGC? - 0 views

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    This weeks topic was UGC and instead of asking questions and staring at blank, tired faces I challenged the students. I brought along my flip video camera and asked them to make a video during the discussion section on two topics: Define UGC & Give examples of UGCs.
Mathieu Plourde

On Being Alone - 0 views

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    As one of the people in the video says, "if you aren't connected people think you are negligent" and that bothers me, but it is a reality.
Mathieu Plourde

Would You Pay 5ยข to Read This Article? - 0 views

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    Isaacson argued that online information shouldn't be exclusively ad supported, and that journalists should consider a small charge for articles, similar to the iTunes payment system for songs.
Mathieu Plourde

Professors Regard Online Instruction as Less Effective Than Classroom Learning - 0 views

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    Instructors' extra time and effort aren't being rewarded financially or professionally, and what's more, online education doesn't translate into better learning outcomes, said respondents in the faculty survey.
Mathieu Plourde

Here's How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template - 0 views

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    I'm going to show you how I built it (all inside PowerPoint) and then I'll show you some tricks that will make it easier for you to build your own elearning courses.
Mathieu Plourde

Tagging in the Material World: A (Mitigated) Success Story - 0 views

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    To stimulate conversation and get people thinking about educational technologies, we gave each participants a set of stickers representing different topics, technologies, interests, etc., along with a sheet of instruction with their nametag.
Mathieu Plourde

Evolving Teaching and Learning: Beyond the LMS (Apple Academix) - 0 views

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    The LMS market today faces a strange contradiction - few teachers truly *love* their current LMS but at the same time no one wants to endure the pain of switching to a new LMS. The LMS vendors are slowly cloning each other's features and innovation is slowing. At the same time how people teach and how people learn using technology is constantly changing and evolving. Teachers continuously experiment with technologies outside of the LMS system with varying levels of success
Mathieu Plourde

Blogging Works - We Proved It - 0 views

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    For A Farewell to Arms, we started with a lottery. Everyone chose a name of a junior and selected a second junior to follow. Besides choosing a quote to reflect on, students also read and commented on two classmates' blogs. The first effect: students talked about blogs during class, their own and their classmates'.
Mathieu Plourde

Murder under the Microscope 2009 - 0 views

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    Murder under the Microscope is an online environmental game for school students in years 5 to 10, typically children aged 9 to 14 years.
Mathieu Plourde

Baylor University || Technology for Faculty || 2009 Presentations - 0 views

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    List of poster presenters at a Baylor U. Teaching with Technology event.
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.
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