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.
Monday, March 21, 2011
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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.
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?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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.
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.
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