Inside Higher Ed: “The Google news this week is all about Google+, the company’s next effort to break into social networks. I say this is great, as I’m another one of those outmigrants, or maybe conscientious objectors, to the Facebook nation.”
Archive for June, 2011
Google+ and the LMS: Ads and Education
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
3 Steps Google Plus Must Take to Win Against Facebook
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
ReadWriteWeb: “Congratulations to the Google Plus team for shipping a superb beta under conditions which could be considered equal parts turmoil and FUD. I absolutely love it. If it had 750 million users on it right now it would be a superior experience to Facebook.”
How To Use Google Plus
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
ReadWriteWeb: “We have been playing with the service since getting invites yesterday and there are a lot of things to like about Google’s new social initiative.”
LMS, Tear Down This Wall!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
Campus Technology: “For the LMS to remain relevant in higher education, it must move beyond the classroom and integrate seamlessly with the learning opportunities presented by the web.”
Liberal-Arts Colleges Venture Into Unlikely Territory: Online Courses
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
Wired Campus: “The small liberal-arts college in this Pennsylvania town offers students an intimate learning experience … Now the college wants to add courses that are partly online into this setting, and it wants other liberal-arts institutions to follow suit.”
Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
Wired Campus: “Two blind students at Florida State University have sued the institution and its Board of Trustees for discrimination, arguing that a mathematics course at the university relied on e-learning systems that were not accessible to the disabled.”
6 Excellent Tools For Writing Without Distractions
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
ReadWriteWeb: “With so many digital distractions, it’s a wonder we can get anything done … Fortunately, there are a number of writing applications that attempt to block out the distractions so we can finally focus.”
Showing, Not Telling: Prezi & Omeka
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2011 |
ProfHacker: “In teaching more ‘traditional’ bibliographic instruction sessions for first year students and for history majors, I teach hands-on by showing students how to engage with the research process. This avoids rambling narration and allows me to leverage some amazing twenty-first century information literacy tools in my sessions, including primary sources, Prezi and Omeka.”
