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Stephen Harlow

Reflections on Teaching with Social Media - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "...I've been musing on how I integrated social media [twitter, wikis, zotero, google wave & docs] into my classes" via Stephen Downes who noted "you can't just take these new technologies and cram them into an old-word [sic] course"
Nigel Robertson

Sakai Foundation Will Merge With Another Open-Source Provider - Wired Campus - The Chro... - 2 views

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    Sakai and uPortal merging?
Stephen Harlow

Making Student Blogs Pay Off with Blog Audits - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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    "But how do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?"
Nigel Robertson

Like Netflix, New College Software Seeks to Personalize Recommendations - Wired Campus ... - 0 views

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    Education analytics news article about Sherpa
Stephen Harlow

YouTube U. Beats YouSnooze Through - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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    "Why aren't students watching lectures on their own, at their own pace, in their dorms? Why aren't we using the 300-person gathering at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday as an opportunity for active peer-to-peer instruction rather than a passive, one-size-fits-all lecture?"
Nigel Robertson

New Social Software Tries to Make Studying Feel Like Facebook - Technology - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    A rash of note sharing services are developing, some 'official', some not, some for profit, some not. Has some of the usual 'terrible' quotes embedded.
Nigel Robertson

Free for All: National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge - Wired... - 0 views

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    Expensive chemistry books (and others!) now free online by a pioneer of open content.
Stephen Harlow

Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    "...Twitter simplifies course management by replacing at least three classroom technologies..."
Nigel Robertson

Zotero vs. EndNote - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Croxall prefers Endnote but the early comments suggest he should try again!
Stephen Harlow

Across More Classes, Videos Make the Grade - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    "'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.
Stephen Harlow

Video Forum: Students Assess Their Professors' Technology Skills - Wired Campus - The C... - 0 views

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    Students assess their professors' technology skills http://t.co/ebYN1nv (via @catspyjamasnz) #digitalliteracy #yam
Stephen Harlow

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    University refits student halls with Wifi and iPads for all. The aim "...to teach students 'IT IQ'-the ability to understand when a piece of technology is useful and when it isn't."
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    What are the fees like?
Stephen Harlow

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 1 views

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    "Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. In addition to the content of our course-which ranged across cognitive psychology, neuroscience, management theory, literature and the arts, and the various fields that compose science-and-technology studies-'This Is Your Brain on the Internet' was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning."
Nigel Robertson

Hacking a Dead Cell Zone with Google Voice - 1 views

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    Handy tip on using Google Voice when have wifi but no phone signal.
Nigel Robertson

Students Find Free Online Lectures Better Than What They're Paying For - Technology - T... - 0 views

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    3 Case studies on the value of Open Educational Resources citing MIT, Yale and Stanford as sites students are using to support their learning elsewhere.
Nigel Robertson

Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    Interesting description of using Google Docs in a writing class and then using Forms to support a peer review process.
Stephen Harlow

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    "[Blackboard] announced plans to add a 'Share' button that will let professors make those learning materials free and open online."<--stealing the march on Moodle? #irony
Tracey Morgan

New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks - Technology - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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    Rob Torrens is using McGraw-Hill's Create service to customise his ENGG180 textbook.
Nigel Robertson

Google Says Pearson's New Learning System Is 'Not a Shared Product' - 2 views

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    As we thought - a marketplace app playing on the name. Still need to check out though!
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