October 2010

More than a third of Higher Education Faculty are on Twitter

October 31, 2010

Twitter use by Higher Education Faculty is more extensive than you might expect, and it’s on the rise. This last week I came across this report from Magna Publications, published last month, which discusses their second annual survey of Twitter usage among college faculty. The survey was conducted over the summer and had 1,372 respondents. I have to say that I been [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 10-25-10

October 29, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Video: Face-Off—Moodle v. Blackboard: http://bit.ly/bhkp5X Teaching experiment links students via Skype: http://bit.ly/aVIZpx It is Time to Step up and STEM it : http://huff.to/doEh6T College Students Develop [...]

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Announcing ShoutLearning, where students can take environmental action while learning

October 27, 2010

This new collaboration offers students and educators an opportunity to have an impact and learn in the process. Today Microsoft “Partners in Learning“ announced a strategic partnership with the Smithsonian and TakingITGlobal, called “Shout”. According to their website, www.shoutlearning.com, “Shout invites educators and students to take an active role in global environmental issues.” Starting next week, the Shout [...]

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Understanding Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons, as they apply to Education

October 24, 2010

As we studied this topic in an online course I’m taking, I realized how little I understood it, and figured I wasn’t alone in that regard. After studying this topic in the “Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations” course I am taking online at UW-Stout with instructor Ann Bell, I wanted to understand it even better, since I struggled with it in [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 10-17-10

October 22, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Properly Implemented Technology Improves Learning, Saves Money for Beleaguered Schools: http://bit.ly/aGqXwy Another article on this intriguing Project RED study, w/better info: http://bit.ly/b1Ha9T Educause’s “7 Things You [...]

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Managing Internet Access in the Classroom with the Right Technology

October 20, 2010

There are affordable tools out there that can let schools and teachers have more control. There are various ways to deal with controlling what students can access on hard wired Internet-enabled computers in classrooms. One way is to provide strict limits using content filtering tools, but these can occasionally lead to difficulties accessing legitimate sites. Another approach is to [...]

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More fun, free online photo and image editing tools

October 17, 2010

Building on last week’s review of free image editing applications with a look at 5 more of these types of tools. Last week we looked at 5 free online picture and image editing tools that I had seen mentioned in this Campus Technology article. A few readers responded to this post and mentioned some other tools they liked. [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 10-10-10

October 15, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Gates Foundation announces $20 million in educational technology grants: http://bit.ly/dsJjx9 Nice piece on the fundamental dilemmas presented by mobile tech and the ‘Net in the [...]

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Picasa - Google’s free picture and image editing and management tool

October 13, 2010

Following up on Sunday’s post about free image and picture editing tools … My feature post this week examined 5 free picture and image editing tools that I had read about in this article in Campus Technology magazine this month. One of them was Picasa from Google, and unlike the other applications which were purely [...]

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A closer look at 5 free picture and image editing tools

October 10, 2010

A closer look at 5 photo editing tools mentioned in this month’s Campus Technology article, “The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom“. I read this article this week, and there is a section in it entitled “4 Itty-Bitty Content Tools“, which in turn has a subsection titled “Become An Image Editor”. They [...]

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