Campus Technology: “The Center for Digital Education has released a new research paper, ‘Funding Lecture Capture in Higher Education.’”
Archive for February, 2012
Center for Digital Education Report Offers Tips for Funding Ed Tech
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 |
Tracking Scholarly Influence Beyond the Impact Factor
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 |
Wired Campus: “’A very blunt instrument’ is how Peter Binfield of the Public Library of Science describes the impact factor. It’s handy for librarians and others who make decisions about which journals to buy but not so dandy for evaluating specific papers and researchers.”
Textbook Renter’s Spinoff May Help College Stores Lower Prices
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 |
Wired Campus: “When it comes to renting or buying textbooks, students can pick from several different services to help them find the best deals.”
Live Blogging with Storify for iPad
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 |
ProfHacker: “Since Storify launched, it’s evolved as a browser-based tool for curating stories drawn from across social media. Ryan Cordell introduced the potential of the platform for telling stories while others explored its possibilities for use in the classroom, with Mark Sample noting its usefulness in managing the classroom backchannel and Ian Thomas sharing his [...]
E-Portfolios: Are We There Yet?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 |
Campus Technology: “For years, e-portfolios have been nurtured by a corps of true believers. As DIY education becomes a reality, their time may have come at last.”
Encountering abstraction with clickers
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 |
Casting Out Nines: “It always seems like a bait-and-switch when I do a ‘clicker’ workshop, because although people come to learn about clickers, I don’t really have much to say about the technology itself.”
Using a WordPress Multisite Network for Class Web Pages
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 |
ProfHacker: “For my courses, I use the multisite network feature built into WordPress 3. This means that all of my WordPress sites are unified under one administrative interface: I use one login and can navigate between my personal site, my course sites, and a project blog.”
Disruptive Student Behavior: The Entitled Students
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 |
ProfHacker: “In this series, we will present a few scenarios, and it’s clear that how we handle these scenarios depends upon the discipline, the class size, and the culture of an institution.”
