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Archive for “December, 2007”

A Useful End of the Year List

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Larry Ferlazzo who writes a blog about using technology to teach ELL, ESL, & EFL has a post highlighting the top web applications of 2007. The sites he lists cover a range of uses, from social bookmarking, and presentations to media sharing and website archives. Reading this post is well worth your time as many […]


Taking the Principled Stand

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Hopefully more academics are willing to join Nick.
I was also thinking that those of us who are academics dealing with digital media have the chance now to determine whether we’re going to become one of those public-irrelevant fields where anti-publication is the norm and we speak only to ourselves, or whether we want to speak […]


Yale Course Material—Rip, Mix, and Burn

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

The short version: Yale now offers a range of course materials online free to the public. While currently the number of courses is rather limited, the scope of materials for each class is substantial and more thorough than current alternatives. The Yale Online Initiative isn’t perfect, but it is a huge step in the right […]


Teaching with Web 2.0

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

If you are new to the world of Web 2.0 and are looking for a good introduction you might want to check out Mark Marino’s talk. Mark recently did a presentation at USC which covered a range of internet tools that one might consider for teaching and research. The link is to his write up […]


For Your Audience’s Sake

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Please on behalf of those who will listen to you, stop using PowerPoint, or at least stop using PowerPoint the way that it is commonly used.

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More Wikipedia Non-Sense

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Apparently many people (and by people I mean ill-informed academics) still think Wikipedia is a horrible, awful, very bad, terrible, no-good thing. The Warren Hills Regional School District has decided to block access to Wikipedia from school computers. Kairosnews asks the crucial question: Isn’t the problem poor teaching not Wikipedia? For a more engaged analysis […]