Archive for February, 2010

The rich tapestry of sights, sounds, smells and experiences that is China captivated students Tom Freudenthal and Lance Whitehill during their recent visit to Shenzhen and Hong Kong with Professor Peter Temple.
Prof.  Temple was exploring possibilities for cooperative and exchange programs with 4 universities (Shenzhen University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic and University [...]

The ISP Council has reviewed the New Media Fluency Outcomes, and it looks like the college will be piloting them in the Fall. CELT will be assisting faculty who wish to to teach to these outcomes, and it looks like we will be producing some supporting material as well.
The outcomes divide new media into four [...]

Presentation slides are handy things for students, in fact for anyone, to have after a lecture or talk is long over. PowerPoint documents, especially, can contain useful information that’s valuable to look back on. In many way’s they’re great, but they also have some failings. For example, unless you’ve posted the whole file on the [...]

To add the Google Calendar to your iPod Touch or iPhone to the following

Step 1:
Select the settings application

Step 2:
Select the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” portion of the settings page.

Step 3:
Select “Add Account…”

Step 4:
Select “Other”

Step 5:
Select “Add Subscribed Calendar”

Step 6:
In the “Server” field type or copy and paste the subscription address you want to add
Press “Next”

Step [...]

Interested in learning how to subscribe to calendars using GCal? Here are some simple steps that will walk you through that process

Step 1:
Do you have a google/gmail account?
Yes:
Okay, great! Head to google.com and sign in.
No:
As much as I hate to say it, this whole process is going to be infinitely easier (not to mention less [...]

This is a non-theoretical introduction to Connectivism as it occurs in practice, made by a student in the Downes/Siemens CCK08 course. One thing to note is how much more the activities of the Networked Student resemble those he will engage in once he has graduated as compared to the activities of a traditional student.

I’ll be adding more of these over the next couple days. If I don’t have the links you need up yet, please come back!
Here are the different sets of links:
Prezi Presentation: Right now this is identical to what I presented 2/12. However, I’ll probably add to it shortly.
Our World (first 15 minutes or presentation):
Caroline Moore, [...]

I’ll be getting other materials from my Friday presentation up soon, but I wanted to get this quote up from Seely Brown (from his New Learning Environments for the 21st Century):
Pro-amateur astronomy may be the best realm to illustrate the rich interplay of all these dimensions. Pro-amateur astronomy experienced a tremendous boost from the creation [...]

As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10,  there are tremendous resources available on the net for video. These have great potential both in and out of the classroom, but the hard part becomes finding and distributing these pieces of media. Finding something relevant can be as easy [...]

Before we get to “Why?” I think it’s important to quickly cover what Twitter actually does. Twitter is a micro-bloging service that allows you to communicate with a network of like-minded individuals. Once you create a Twitter account, your home page appears as a timeline of your “tweets,” as well as [...]