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'A Better Pencil':(Sept. 18, 2009) by Serena Golden “In this electronic age, new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Baron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Baron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another.” . . . Web site |
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10 Killer Content Sources for Your iPod Learning Mix:(Oct. 14, 2009) by Jeffrey Cobb, Mission to Learn Web site Here are 10 great ones, in no particular order: Quick and Dirty Tips - Probably best known for the Grammar Girl podcast, Quick and Dirty Tips offers short and snappy content on a range of other topics, like nutrition, public speaking, investing, and even dog training. http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ LearnOutLoud - I’ve been a fan of The Philosophy Podcast for a while now, but LearnOutLoud has a lot more to offer. In fact, the site claims to have “the Internet’s first directory for podcasts you can learn from.” And LearnOutLoud also has a great selection of learning resources for kids. http://www.learnoutloud.com/ MindBites - I interviewed MindBites CEO Jason Reneau for a Radio Free Learning podcast a while back. His company’s site offers a large and growing collection of video “instructionals” on topics ranging from sewing to calculus to baby sign language. http://www.mindbites.com/ Radio Lingua Network - Radio Lingua offers the popular Coffee Break Spanish and Coffee Break French podcast series as well as “My Daily Phrase” and “One Minute” podcasts for a number of other languages. http://www.radiolingua.com/ourpodcasts/index.html iTunes U (Opens in iTunes) - iTunes U is the place for great free content from top universities and other educational institutions. Apple claims there are more than 200,000 educational audio and video files available. Here are direct links to a few of the participating institutions and organizations. Carnegie Melon University, Oxford University, Open University, Stanford University, Edutopia, and Teacher’s Domain (WGBH/PBS) http://deimos3.apple.com/indigo/main/main.html?v0=WWW-AMUS-ITUNESU070521-N48LX (You will have to have iTunes installed for these to work) Education Podcast Network - The Education Podcast Network bills itself as “an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.” Of course, you don’t have to be a teacher to use it! http://epnweb.org/ The Naked Scientists - If you have the slightest interest in science, The Naked Scientists is a site you will want to subscribe to. A project of the BBC, it offers up a continuing stream of interviews with famous scientists along with news and information about science, medicine and technology. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/ Librivox - Librivox is the source for free audio book content on the Web, and it offers a variety of podcast options. You can pull pretty much any audio book on the site into your iPod, or try out one of these five channels for an automated stream of content: LibriVox Books Podcast, LibriVox Community Podcast, LibriVox Poetry Podcast, LibriVox Short Story Podcast, LibriVox New Releases Podcast http://librivox.org/ TED Talks - I’m continually amazed at the stream of high quality content coming out of the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference. The Web site is very popular, but you might not be aware that you can subscribe to both a video and an audio version of TED talks through iTunes. http://www.ted.com/talks Teaching Company - I’ve got a bit of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to The Teaching Company. They, along with Amazon and many others, dropped their North Carolina affiliates like a hot potato after the NC Legislature passed a hare-brained new tax law late this summer. Still, if you are willing to pony up the bucks for it, the company offers some pretty amazing, in-depth educational content. “Great courses taught by great professors,” as they put it. http://www.teach12.com/teach12.aspx?ai=16281 | |
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2006 Campus Computing Project: Wireless Networks, IT Security Incidents Decline:Web site | |
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2008 Global Student E-book Survey:Student academic use of information resources (table 2): 81 percent [2,593] Google, 78 percent [2,517] E-books, 77 percent [2,478] Print books, 69 percent [2,206] E-reference, 67 percent [2,142] Wikipedia, 65 percent [2,098] Print textbooks, 65 percent [2,080] E-journals, 62 percent [1,992] Databases (ProQuest, LexisNexis, JSTOR, etc.)" Website | |
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25 Practical Ideas for Using Mobile Phones In The Classroom:(Nov. 20, 2009) by Graham Atwell, Poltydysgu “We have been writing a lot about ideas on how mobile devices, and particularly phones might be used to support learning. But most of this work has been from a somewhat theoretical angle. Now Jenny Hughes has written a great guest blog on the practical work she has been doing on the use of mobiles in schools. I’ve been working with (primary and secondary teachers) on e-learning in the classroom – particularly the use of web 2.0 applications – as the roll out and dissemination of the TACCLE project. Part of this has been looking at the use of mobile phones as learning tools in schools. There seems to be a lot of debate around the technology, the theoretical perspectives, the social dimension and so on but just at the moment the ‘doing’ is engaging me far more than the research. And as I’m always the first to complain about the practitioner – researcher divide, I thought maybe we should contribute by sharing some stuff we are experimenting with in the classroom.” “What follows is some of the output from teachers. Firstly there has been a debate around the feasibility of using mobile telephones in schools; teachers from schools that have banned them outright, teachers from schools where they are allowed and teachers who are actually using them for learning generated a list of For-and-Against arguments. Secondly, there are some practical suggestions for using mobile devices (mainly phones), tried and tested and either contributed by teachers or trialed on the TACCLE course.” . . . Web site | |
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7 Things You Should Know about Google Wave:Educause What is it? Who is doing it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? Where is it going? What are the implications for teaching and learning? “Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. E-mail is 40 years old, predating most of the technology that people today take for granted, and the basic model of e-mail remains unchanged. Other forms of electronic communication have emerged, such as instant messaging, chats, blogs, and texting, and many communication tools have also migrated to the cloud rather than running on local campus servers.” “With these trends in mind, Google is developing an application that has elements of existing communication tools but is built around a different model of how communication -- and collaboration -- take place. With Wave, users create online spaces called “waves,” which may include multiple discrete messages and components -- “blips” -- that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which separate copies of multiple messages are not sent to different people; instead, the content resides in a single space. People go to a wave to access the content, respond to it, change it, replay it, send it to a blog, or add new material or attachments.” Web site | |
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70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube:“Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But rather antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we’ve decided to do the job for them. These enriching/educational videos come from media outlets, cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are about 70 collections in total, and the list will grow over time. If we’re missing anything good, feel free to let us know, and we’ll happily add them. You can find the complete list below the jump.” Website | |
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“Engage Me or Enrage Me”: What Today’s Learners Demand:(2005) Marc Prensky. Among the various types of students, one group is quickly becoming the majority and presents the top challenge for educators today. Web Site | |
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“Where Do You Learn?”: Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development:“We recruited 15 students to take part in a two-week study. During this time — in exchange for a token payment of Amazon vouchers — we asked each participant to: - Register for a Twitter account and tweet an average of three times per day about their learning activities and the spaces they were using; - Provide three longer summaries per week offering additional information on points of interest selected by us (for example, “You mention working in x location — what is it about this space that works for you?”); and - Take part in a final reflective interview at the end of the fortnight.” . . . Web site | |
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