Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers

Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers - Mashable lets us know that "Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student age range, language and subject." Which facilitates collaboration.

Not sure if they are using it in higher ed much yet or not.

Facebook In The Classroom. Seriously. | Emerging Education Technology

Facebook In The Classroom. Seriously. | Emerging Education Technology

The post, “100 Ways To Teach With Twitter”, is the most consistently viewed article on this site. Similarly, “Facebook As An Instructional Technology Tool”, resulted in the 2nd most trafficked day here last year. While Facebook and Twitter are both hugely popular Internet tools, I still find myself a little surprised by the popularity of these posts, considering the academic perspective of this site. Teachers are rightfully hesitant to use such popular tools, given their inherent risk of exposing students to inappropriate content.

6 Questions to Ask About Your Team’s Effectiveness: Online Collaboration «

6 Questions to Ask About Your Team’s Effectiveness: Online Collaboration « How much could higher education benefit from these corporate ideas about being more effective?

If you want to truly engage students, give up the reins - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning

If you want to truly engage students, give up the reins - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning.

From a presentation, McIntosh says that our happiest memories in school are of "making stuff", but that has little room in the curriculum.

Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

A liberal arts education, or technical training? Familiar faces stand for old ideas.

Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com

Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com

In praise of the short writing assignment, where students write two sentences selling an article of clothing on eBay.

The Full Wiki Makes Wikipedia a Deeper, More Citable Research Tool

The Full Wiki Makes Wikipedia a Deeper, More Citable Research Tool

Interesting Lifehacker post - http://lifehacker.com/#!5783901/the-full-wiki-makes-wikipedia-a-deeper-more-citable-research-tool

If you to to http://www.thefullwiki.org it helps you find quotable sentences from the Wikipedia sources even easier to find.

Information Literacy learning tool or plagiarism turbo-charger? Only time will tell.

Innovation in Africa tips « Design in Africa

Innovation in Africa tips « Design in Africa interesting ideas for social innovation.

I think "think and act big – don’t do anything that can’t reach a million people" really resonates with me. We have big problems, we need to think big to solve them.

Pointed to this from http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/social-innovation-learn - the Urgent Evoke project.

The Facts on Higher Order Thinking | Faculty Focus

The Facts on Higher Order Thinking | Faculty Focus looks at whether or not higher-order skills are taught in introductory classes or not. Do we need to know the facts before we can move higher on Bloom's Taxonomy? Or can we start before we know all the facts?

Two new projects

Elev8ed lets kids share videos about how they they feel about education, and what could be improved.

http://education.ted.com/ is a new sub-set of TED, where they are looking for education leaders to make even more inspiring and useful videos for use in education.

ELI Conference - Baylor's New Media Faculty Development

If possible, I am going to find and use Baylor's model to do a new media faculty development for Bluegrass.

http://www.nmc.org/nmfs is one link to the project.

http://net.educause.edu/ELI11/Program/1025899?PRODUCT_CODE=ELI11/SESS38 is the session that I just caught the end of.

Thanks for the twitter stream at #eli2011 that had me leave one virtual session to catch the end of this one.

Higher Ed Live – Episode 17: Seriously Advanced YouTube Tips

Higher Ed Live – Episode 17: Seriously Advanced YouTube Tips

Why Teach? | DMLcentral

Why Teach? | DMLcentral looks like an interesting article. Too late in the afternoon to give it the attention it deserves.

Washington leading way in open texts

I'm glad that someone is leading the way in open, online texts. Washington State has required open texts for community college classes.

Read the Newsweek article at http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html

Or follow progress on the 81 piloted courses at http://opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com/What+this+project+is.

Weblogg-ed » A New Culture of Learning

Weblogg-ed » A New Culture of Learning - Will Richardson has another great post on a new book, John Seely Brown's New Culture of Learning.

We need to re-evaluate education in a deeper way. We need to shift the idea of education from a "machine" that puts the right knowledge into the students, into an "environment" where students learn how to ask the right questions, and then find answers that work for today (and when to re-visit the questions and find better answers when needed).

Universe / by Jonathan Harris

Universe / by Jonathan Harris an interesting way of visualizing current zeitgeist - from a Ted talk.

Graphical Twitterverse

Interesting graphic at http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/3570379944/sizes/o/in/photostream/ that shows the different add-ons / extensions / ways to use twitter.

Thanks to Scott Clark at http://www.buzzmaven.com/ for the link