This post serves as a reminder of the Educause 2009 Online conference that will be taking place in 120 Linton Hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday courtesy of Libraries, Computing and Technology and the College of Arts and Letters. We hope to see you there for all or part of this experience, including a presentation by [...]
Michael Feldstein published an article on his ‘e-literate’ blog today that lightly summarizes a webinar he attended hosted by the Delta Initiative, a consultancy group, in cooperation with the Cal State system. The post I’m referring to “The State of the LMS: An Institutional Perspective” provides a brief synopsis of the webinar as “an excellent, [...]
To continue with yesterday’s conversation regarding Day One and how to prepare yourself and your students, I share this link from Leigh Graves Wolf, coordinator of MSU’s Master of Arts in Educational Technology. Prof. Hacker is a blog centering around digital pedagogy, and provides valuable information and tutorials for instructors navigating the challenges posed by [...]
As I prepare to convene the Breakfast Series advisory panel, I decided to write a brief blog post to the faculty, staff and academic staff members at MSU, both those who have attended the Series in the past, and those who have never been. What topics would you like to see more of? Is there [...]
On February 23, 2009, I began learning Mandarin Chinese. Using the Rosetta Stone software, I was able to become proficient in Chinese after only four months of practice.
Rosetta Stone is an incredible tool that I highly recommend to all language learners. Not only is it self-paced and interactive, but it takes an intriguing approach to [...]
Transform is my latest educational game. Its learning focus is on basic geometric transformations. The topics of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation, more commonly known as flip, turn, slide, and scale, are all conveyed through an interactive puzzle environment.
Today, I came across two interesting new sites, including a blog about accessibility technology and a website featuring open college textbooks.
Introduction
Recently, it has been reported that Maine is seeking to expand its K-12 student laptop initiative, which began in 2003. The plan is now to provide every public student in grades seven through twelve with his or her own macbook computer. As I often find myself doing when I encounter interesting articles, I scrolled down [...]
Thanks to a somewhat arbitrary and random photography experience, I was enticed to reflect on the ever-changing nature of technology and what it means for me as an educational technology professional.
According to a CNET report, Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft are collaborating with academics to create assessment standards for digital literacy.
This got me thinking not only about what digital literacy means, but why, how, and if it should be measured.
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