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Lately I have been doing a lot of research on blending web 2.0 technologies into course curriculum and focusing mostly from the side of students. It's so easy for students to use these innovative tools for assignments, collaborative projects, or for inquiry-based learning. Naturally I thought about teachers using them too, but it wasn't until I read this blog post from "Golden Bytes" that it

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Yale University has joined the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement and is now offering free courses through Open Yale Courses. These courses are free and open to anyone who would like to participate. Seven departments (astronomy, English, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology and religious studies) at Yale are among the first at the university to offer classes via the Open Yale Courses

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Podcasts are great learning tools but sometimes finding podcasts to use in your curriculum can be can be an arduous task for educators. Not if you use Podscope. Podscope is an audio-video podcast search engine that searches podcasts for "key" words. If you're a Nursing Educator searching for podcasts about nutrition, thats easy with Podscope. If you're an elemenatary level teacher looking for

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The 2008 Webware Top 100 Winners have been announced- go check them out. Now you have plenty time to brainstorm ideas for projects to use these Webware Winners for your own productivity or creativity, or with your students.

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Take your students on a field trip to the Library of Congress . "This Library of Congress Experience will offer “hands-on” interaction with rare cultural treasures in ways that inspire and engage" While you're going why not invite another class to go along? Then come back to an Elluminate Live Vroom and have the classes share their Library of Congress Experience with each other

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EctoLearning is a Personalized Learning Environment for organizing class content for students to access online. "Ecto lets you create interactive learning items and entire courses using your own content including RSS, YouTube, and Wikis. Content is user-generated, user-rated, and shared in the vast open Ecto library."Ecto also you to share content and connect with others globally. And best of

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In a recently published article in the April 2008 Sloan-C View Patricia McGee, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at The University of Texas at San Antonio focuses on Community + Web 2.0 = Learning. Professor McGee poses, “The question really becomes: How can we facilitate the natural formation of community regardless of the technology available to us? Here is my reply ….We, humans,

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Try sending your field trip parent forms using Google Docs -Forms. "Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.... Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and

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What about using Wikis & Wikipedia for student term papers? A good idea discussed in Scholarship2.0 is a report on "Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper" by Andreas Brockhau and Martha Groome from the University of Washington, Bothel - Why not have students add to Wikipedia pages on a specific topic for a term paper or have them make a major revision to a needy page already in Wikipedia?

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Having students guide their own learning by "Creating a Collaborative Syllabus" is an innovative way to get motivated students in your classes rather than having to "wake up the dead" in your classes each day. Spend time planning with students in advance and get them excited about the learning to come. This also provides an opportunity for students to access prior knowledge about that they know

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Task pre-service student teachers to research integrating technology into classroom use and they will produce an overwhelming source of ideas! To share their ideas for using Podcasts in the Classroom: Teachers can use podcasting to share lecture information with students. Teachers can have students create podcasts to share information that they gathered. This type of assignment would have

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Have you and your students been involved or are you involved in an original, online learning activity? If so, we encourage you to enter the 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Award competition. Deadline for submission is March 31, 2008 . Awardees will be announced in April 2008. All awardees will receive an invitation to present their project during a web poster session at the National Educational

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Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li spends her time between two worlds: the early adopter Web 2.0 crowd and the broader business users who don't quite get them. Here, she explains why all that Facebook-MySpace-Twitter-Digg excitement aside, most of the world just doesn't find Web 2.0 relevant and what entrepreneurs need to do to fix that.

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This article "10 sites for Finding Wonderful Things" should really be named 10 to the 10th Power. Each site founded by a creative bricoler has more power than just 1. Read it and browse the sites while you have time over Spring Break. It will be a fun experiment with bricolage and be sure to pass along the wonderful things you find to your students. You just never know what bricolage will

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The participatory and collaborative tools of the Web 2.0 have paved the path for Learning 2.0. The Internet provides the means for students to learn informally through online social networks and groups where they 'learn to be'. Students participate in online social networks, meeting with others to share information and learn. Learning 2.0 is the way in which we learn or acquire new information on

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PB wiki for Educators. Just for teachers and students. Check out all the tools PB Wiki has added right at your fingertips. Student won't have to go looking all over the web for tools like jing and Camtasia, find them right in the sidebar. Share the PB Wiki Etiquette with your students. Educate them on proper way to act in a Wiki and the Web2.0. Wikis for student collaboration whenever -

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NothingButNets is a excellent example of using various social media for a great cause. The Net A Life: Fight Against Malaria website is a mash-up of various social media tools like Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube. Sites that young people frequent. A great way to attract the energy of young people to solve some of the world's problems. In Gambia alone malaria accounts for over one million

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Here is a short video showing how Moodle can be used to 'web-enhance' or enrich any course. Moodle is not just for e-learning from a distance, but a very useful tool for any course curriculum or any delivery method.

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Attend a great event this weekend- The Worlds Fair Of Education. Two full days of professional development in New York City. A collaborative opportunity for educators provided by Thirteen- New York Public Television.

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The International Association of Science and Technology for Development's (IASTED) International Conference on Web-Based Learning in Innsbrooks Austria - March 17-19 will create an International Forum on Online Education. Put it on your conference agenda. The keynote address by Dr Susan Aldrich - President, University of Maryland University College, "Bringing the World to Higher Education: A

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Over heard on the Metro train last night from New York City: A group of young mothers talking- "...I don't take TV away from my kids for punishment when they do something wrong. I take away their nightly computer time, and their IM ing- -oh they live for IMing their friends- and for my oldest- I take away text messaging on her cell phone.... I don't take away TV because my kids dont watch TV at

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Recently I was very fortunate to hear Nick Donofrio speak about "Creating a Culture of Innovation" at Mount Saint Mary College in New York. Nick Donofrio, the Executive Vice President- Innovation & Technology of IBM worldwide fame, emphasized how important it is to educate students to think creatively. His comment "Only a few will invent, but everyone can innovate" is an idea to reflect upon

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Subscribe to the Educause Podcasts and bring learning to you. Keep updated in Education and Technology. Hear what experts, visionaries, and your peers have to say - anytime, anywhere. Subscribe now !

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Two communication tools we are currently testing in conjunction with Elluminate Live are WiziQ and DimDim for use as online classrooms, faculty office hours and for student conferencing. We are doing our own comparison of how these tools match up for faculty teaching through blended and online delivery methods. These tools are getting tested by our faculty as a means to reach students through

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Join the University of Illinois in downtown Chicago for this year’s workshop "Blending with Purpose" on April 6 through 8, 2008. "Blending with Purpose" examines blended learning as a platform for introducing teaching innovations,resolving resource concerns and facilitating the learning of students in the digital age. Administrative leaders, faculty members, instructional designers and

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