I stumbled on a white paper by Barnes and Nobel College titled, “Inspire Evolution: Increasing Faculty Technology Use in Higher Education“. I didn’t know Barnes & Noble College was an entity, but as I found on their website they “serve over 6 million students and faculty members and operate 773 campus stores nationwide” and Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is the parent organization trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol, “BNED”. huh …
I downloaded a trial version of Camtasia and will be doing some side by side comparisons to the Windows Media Encoder. Clearly, Camtasia wins early points for ease of use in a bundled software package. The WM encoder simply captures the file and saves it in .wmv. Then, you have to figure out what to…
Check out this profile of CrowdED Learning in the Adult Literacy Education Journal published by ProLiteracy! It’s been so fun to watch Jeff take this spark of an idea and turn it into a living “thing” that people not only understand but value. If you haven’t done so already, please check out his existing roster…
New resources have been added to the Drupal CMS Academy web site! The dudes over at dudertown.com put out a Drupal how-to series of vodcasts (12 podcasts with screencast video) a few months back. It may be worth a peek if you are looking for quick Drupal how-to-help. A new Drupal book is in print!…
Back at it in the new year and one of the first agenda items at the team meeting was discussing the 2023 AECT Convention Proposal Call that opened in late December. The 2023 convention will celebrate AECT’s 100th year as an organization! Happy centennial – or, as I just learned, “centenary” for some outside the…
Throughout my graduate program, we read study after study examining the effects on learning outcomes. Even my own dissertation considered the relationship between students’ perceptions of community in an online environment and learning outcomes (spoiler: no relationship was suggested in my data). However, the students’ perceptions of community within the class were significantly positively correlated with…
As I’ve noted previously, pageflakes.net is an awesome example of a widget based start page (widget and feed aggregator on steroids) that has tons of options in an educational setting. Today (thanks to a post by Jane Hart), I just realized that pageflakes also has a tailored start page for students and teachers under a…