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End of the EdTechNewsBlog

Eric V. LePage — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:59:09 +0000

I’ve been running this news aggregation blog since January 2010, and it is with a touch of sadness that I announce the end of the blog. With the availability of news via Twitter, smartphones, RSS feeds, and other social media sites, there is little need to continue on with this site. Thanks to everyone who has followed it the last three years, and best wishes. – Eric LePage

Five Ways to Use Flickr to Make Better Slides

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:04:30 +0000

ProfHacker: “Although Yahoo! has tried its level best to destroy it, and despite the arrival of other photo sharing sites, Flickr is still the easiest way to share and find quality images, whether for web sites or for slide decks. I’ve written before about how we use Flickr’s Creative Commons search abilities to find pictures for ProfHacker.”

Tree Is a Cool Tool for Creating Outlines That Branch Everywhere

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:03:56 +0000

TechNewsWorld: “An outline can be a great road map for helping writers get their thoughts together. Most maps, though, offer more than one way to a destination. Tree ditches a traditional linear approach to give users the flexibility they sometimes need; horizontal and vertical abilities add more outline options, but not at the expense of usability. Nice text control and export features will help Tree plant some strong roots in any writer’s garden.”

American Anthropological Assn. Will Experiment With Open Access

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:00:20 +0000

Wired Campus: “The American Anthropological Association publishes more than 20 journals. None is open access. The public currently has to wait 35 years after publication to have free access to articles, according to a spokeswoman for the group.”

Open-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:59:54 +0000

Wired Campus: “Universities and foundations have poured more than $100-million into creating open-education materials. But according to David Wiley, an open-education advocate for 15 years, faculty members and administrators have been slow to use the resources as alternatives to expensive textbooks.”

Using Facebook and Tumblr to Engage Students

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:59:29 +0000

ProfHacker: “Like many followers of ProfHacker, we like to experiment with social media in our classrooms. And though digital tools have become an integral part of our efforts to engage students, we’re continually surprised by unexpected successes or failures. We found ourselves talking about just that topic toward the end of the fall semester as we realized that we had created similar social media projects for our students, one with Facebook and one with Tumblr.”

Ed-Fi Alliance – Taming the state and local data beasts

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:58:44 +0000

ZDNet Education: “You’ve heard about InBloom. Now the Ed-Fi Alliance is bringing even more big data sensibility to states and districts.”

Tableau Software: Analytics for everyone, now free for students and teachers

Eric V. LePage — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:58:15 +0000

ZDNet Education: “Tableau Software recently announced that it would begin giving away its Tableau Desktop analytics software. Having spent some time with the tool, I can say that this could mark a turning point in the way students think about data.”

5 Classroom Design Strategies for Lecture Capture

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:58:46 +0000

Classroom Technology: “Ready or not, schools are being forced to offer online or hybrid classes. AV Specialist Michael David Leiboff shares five tips to help colleges and universities prepare their classrooms for the lecture capture needs of today and tomorrow.”

Tackling Plagiarism

Eric V. LePage — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:58:22 +0000

Campus Technology: “The digital age has made copying text, photos, and videos a very easy proposition. Where students were once relegated to using encyclopedias and other resources to find information – and then copy that information by hand in their own pieces of work – all of that information and more is now just a few clicks away on the Web. College professors wishing to bring out their students’ originality and creativity face a uphill battle in the information age, what with the plethora of information sources that are literally at their pupils’ fingertips.”