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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
Tech should make teaching easier and more effective, not harder and more frustrating.
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