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Image via CrunchBase This weekend I watched “The Social Network,” the quasi-factual story of how Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook and the ensuing litigation involved with its success. It’s a story of friendship, betrayal, creativity, and how technology is moving us faster and faster in directions we never imagined. In one scene of the movie, Sean [...]
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A study conducted by the University of Texas found that people with messy offices are less efficient, less organized, and less imaginative that people with clean desks. Hey, I knew that! In fact, I’ve always found I work best in a clean, clutter-free environment. Piles of paper, food crumbs, and other debris can not only [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Using mobile technologies to enhance your teaching does not need to be complicated. In fact, some of the easiest ways to use these technologies can improve your communication and relationship with students, enable higher-order thinking in your assignments, engage your learners, and save you quite a bit of time. Here are 10 [...]
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Image via CrunchBase I’m an online teacher, so naturally I spend a lot of my day online working. That’s not to say I don’t get sidetracked. I can easily go to a website for research, click a link to another area of interest, and before long, I have a line of browser tabs that extend [...]
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Image via CrunchBase It’s that time of year again. Another fall semester is beginning at Boise State, and my son also begins his college career. As a college instructor, I wanted to provide essential information on how to start strong. Some of them seem rather obvious, but it’s amazing how students fail to follow them. [...]
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If you take an education methods class, you will inevitably discuss learning styles. Do they exist? If so, should we create different types of instructional content to address diverse learning styles? How much time can a teacher invest in adjusting instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners? The questions go on and on. What [...]
http://itcboisestate.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/multimedia-to-address-diverse-learning-styles/
If you were in school during the 1960s, like me, you probably remember the anticipation and excitement when the filmstrip projector was brought out. If you’ve never heard of or seen a filmstrip, there is a picture below. The projector held the filmstrip, which was inserted vertically in front of the projector. Filmstrips usually came [...]
http://itcboisestate.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/students-as-creators-of-multimedia-instruction/
This week, through teaching a mobile design workshop, I learned that YouTube has added even more transcribing tools, which can and will totally revolutionize the process of closed captioning. Once you find out what YouTube can do with audio transcription, you will first be amazed and then, be using it a lot. You can watch [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Technology changes the way we live and work. But don’t forget: technology changes too. Take mobile technologies, for instance. It used to be that a cell phone was a cell phone was a cell phone. Then Research in Motion came along with their Blackberry cell phones that would enable the sending and [...]
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Image via Wikipedia I recently attended a preliminary discussion to brainstorm ideas for a federal grant proposal aimed at reducing obesity in young children, focusing on schools with lower socio-economic and refugee populations. The reason I was asked to share my knowledge is that the grant also needs to include an “innovative” technology component. Once [...]
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