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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

The CogDog's joyous barks at Baylor - 0 views

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    Baylor University welcomed to its campus yesterday the CogDog himself, Alan Levine, for conversation, tours, and an afternoon presentation titled "NMC 101, An Introduction to the New Media Consortium."
Mathieu Plourde

YoutubeReloaded | Free Youtube Embeddable Playlist Generator - 0 views

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    Welcome to YoutubeReloaded, the free youtube playlist generator. YoutubeReloaded creates an embeddable playlist that can be added to any website. Simply choose a playlist type to create your free youtube playlist. Enjoy!
Mathieu Plourde

Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too - 0 views

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    Teachers are learners. If they're not, they shouldn't be teachers. In a world where we can engage in our passions through the affordances of connective technologies online, we need to be thinking about how to personalize the learning of the adults in the room as well as the kids.
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

Self-Education Resource List - 0 views

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    The internet is an invaluable resource to self-educated learners. Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.
Mathieu Plourde

Writing in the 21st Century - 0 views

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    Writing in the 21st Century, a new report by Kathleen Blake Yancey, NCTE Past President and writing researcher and writing faculty member, Florida State University, discusses writing in school, the workplace, and civic society
Mathieu Plourde

Writing the Book on Clickers - 0 views

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    Derek Bruff, assistant director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching, has written a book that reviews the uses of clickers and offers advice for institutions and professors. The book -- Teaching With Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments -- is just out from Jossey-Bass.
Mathieu Plourde

Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis - 0 views

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    Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders.
Mathieu Plourde

Sakai@UD project sites now available for faculty and staff - 0 views

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    University of Delaware Information Technologies has announced that faculty and staff can now create "project" sites on Sakai@UD -- the UD-supported learning management system.
Mathieu Plourde

Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching - 0 views

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    Open teaching is described as the facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social. Open teachers are advocates of a free and open knowledge society, and support their students in the critical consumption, production, connection, and synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks.
Mathieu Plourde

100+ best sites to find tutorials! - 0 views

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    This is a list of the majority of site listed in the TUTSEARCH database. I am constantly added new ones. If you would like to kept up to date, follow us on twitter. If your site isn't listed, submit it.
Mathieu Plourde

Twitter as Courseware - 0 views

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    Twitter is the class' main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced three classroom technologies: listserv, email, cardboard box to collect papers.
Mathieu Plourde

EDUPUNK Battle Royale - Part 1 - 0 views

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    Edupunk, as defined by the New York Times, is "an approach to teaching that avoids mainstream tools like Powerpoint and Blackboard, and instead aims to bring the rebellious attitude and D.I.Y. ethos of 70s bands like the Clash to the classroom." The term was coined by Jim Groom, Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington.
Mathieu Plourde

Assessing the Future: E-Portfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education - 0 views

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    The analysis of the potential benefits in post-secondary settings also includes considerations of the obstacles to institutional adoption and challenges to successful implementation.
Mathieu Plourde

Twitter Takes Off (ABC News) - 0 views

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    Good intro to Twitter.
Mathieu Plourde

How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media - 0 views

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    Apparently Baby Boomers aren't exactly the technology Luddites that people think they are. In fact, more than 60 percent of those in this generational group actively consume socially created content like blogs, videos, podcasts, and forums.
Mathieu Plourde

ePortfolio's Democratizing Potential May Be Quashed by IT Dark Side - 0 views

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    Institutions need assessment management using portfolio data but students need personal portfolios to learn. Within one technology, portfolios, IT must show both the liberating and controlling faces.
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.
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