http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech Conversations about all things educational, instructional, and technological in today's culture and society and higher education. Wed, 20 May 2009 14:32:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas. Take a look at this very creative way to get students in a fairly large class (90 students) actively involved in the course. The instructor makes use of Twitter as a primary instructional strategy in the course. In her ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/05/20/kesmit-ing-the-twitter-experiment-bringing-twitter-to-the-classroom-at-ut-dallas/ With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Simmons College has launched the website Blended Learning at Simmons College: In addition to serving as a resource for Simmons faculty and students, the site is designed to help schools around the country make a successful transition to blended learning. The site includes information and resources for ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/05/18/blended-learning-web-resource-from-simmons-college/ Do It Myself Blog - Glenda Watson Hyatt » How POUR is Your Blog. If you want to learn some tips about making blogs accessible, and be inspired at the same time, please check out this link. I doubt you will be disappointed. http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/05/14/do-it-myself-blog-glenda-watson-hyatt-%c2%bb-how-pour-is-your-blog/ At our SBS Undergraduate Online Teaching Best Practices workshop this past Friday, May 1, we experimented with new Flip video cameras, but had difficulty getting them the videos to show in Blackboard. Well, Woo Hoo! Not only did I find an existing online resource to guide us through uploading a Flip video ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/05/04/uploading-a-flip-video-to-blackboard-duke-digital-initiative/ I've written about Fair Use before, but thought I'd bring up the topic again since the summer online courses are about to get under way.  Often, faculty wonder whether their use of copyrighted materials in the classroom constitutes Fair Use or not. Making a Fair Use argument is not always ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/05/03/using-copyrighted-materials-in-education-fair-use-guidelines-for-educators/   [caption id="attachment_142" align="alignleft" width="170" caption="PARC"][/caption] Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: How Distracting are Social Media Tools?. "...during one presentation at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Boston, Raluca Budiu, a user-experience specialist for the Nielsen Norman Group, asked the audience whether typing in tags for articles would ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/04/15/technology-review-blogs-tr-editors-blog-how-distracting-are-social-media-tools/ There is an article in this morning's Inside Higer Ed entitled "Rise In Distance Enrollments" that talks about this trend in community colleges.  Part of the article includes the results of a national survey taken by these institutions that describes the current status of student services for distance education at ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/04/06/distance-education-student-services/ In light of YouTube's recently launch of "YouTube Edu", I figured I'd compile a list of the best sites for educational use. (I've seriously thought about aggregating our own on wpmu with a premium Wordpress template like On Demand, which looks like a Hulu or Wordpress tv. and can ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/04/05/quality-online-video-sites-for-education/ A list of software resources for audio and video capture, creation, and production.  Of course, you still need to host your podcast somewhere, but we'll explain more about that later... Windows Audacity Record, edit and produce audio podcasts Price: Free Camtasia Studio Screencasting - Record anything on your screen as a movie Price: $299 (retail) Snapkast Record and ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/04/03/11-software-applications-for-podcasting/ OK, this has got to stop! But I can't help but find out sort of information that I think could be of use to people, and like my mother, I cannot help but pass it on. I got this from reading Cliff Atkinson's blog. Atkinson is the author of the ... http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/tech/2009/04/02/portable-storyboards/