Education
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
- How Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach
How Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach - Boing Boing
…The valiant and resolute band of travelers I thought I was leading toward a much-hoped-for destination turned out instead to be more like convicts on a chain-gang, forced under threat of punishment to move along a rough path leading nobody knew where and down [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
- Video: How to Speak
Video: How to Speak
In this skillful lecture, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions by using them himself. He emphasizes how to start a lecture, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” that [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
- How creativity is being strangled by the law
TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
From an educational point of view. I wound up having to download it but it was worth it.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
- Do schools kill creativity?
swissmiss: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of [...]
Friday, October 19, 2007
- Teaching users to resize text with browser controls
Accessify: latest news / Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text)
It got me thinking, maybe it would be best to show the user how to change the font size rather than simply describe it. With that in mind, I put together some video clips, joined them together in iMovie and did [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
- Captions for Video with Flash CS3
Flash is popular for adding interactive media to websites such as movies and tutorials. Now there’s an easy, built-in way to add captioning for the hearing impaired or sub-titles for other languages. Digital Web Magazine - Captions for Video with Flash CS3 gives and introduction on using this option.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
- Why Our Education System is Failing Us
Why Our Education System is Failing Us « Personal Growth & Personal Development
Today’s school system is built upon a foundation that was created over 100 years ago. Unfortunately, it has changed very little since being formed during the Industrial Age.
We still hold millions of kids hostage for approximately 35 hours a week. Students are ushered [...]
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
- SirsiDynix Institute podcast feed!
Open Stacks
Now introducing the official SirsiDynix Institute podcast feed!
I’ve really been enjoying the SirsiDynix Institute Web seminars that have been going on this year. They have timely subjects and draw their speakers from the library bloggers.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
- Stanford On ITunes
‘Stanford On ITunes’ Is For Everybody - Forbes.com
In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student. [...]
Monday, August 8, 2005
- JOLT
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education.
via Open Access News
Monday, June 20, 2005
- Next problem
Library Web Chic » Blog Archive » E-Reserve Issues
Publishers want to be paid for e-reserves now. Because library’s have so much money, right?
If the current lecture method of teaching doesn’t work very well (And most people I know agree that it doesn’t.), education will most likely be evolving in the next 10-20 years toward [...]
Thursday, June 9, 2005
- Peter Scott’s Library Blog
Peter Scott’s Library Blog
Five new Internet tutorials for adult learners have been launched in the RDN Virtual Training Suite:
A really nicely designed site.
Saturday, November 27, 2004
- Ed-Tech Insider
eSchool News Ed-Tech Insider is a blog about technology in teaching. It can provide some great ideas for classes as well as up-to-date news.
Thursday, September 2, 2004
- Educause Article
Stephen Downes writes about blogs as educational tools in Educause. I highly recommend you read it for yourself because it’s very well-balanced and insightful. I couldn’t resist including some of my favorite bits below.
…the events of September 11 brought home to me the immediacy of blogging. We ran ongoing coverage, submitted via SMS to my [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
- Classroom Blogging
The New York Times >In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards looks at the experiences of teachers using the technology instead of in-class discussions or essays. It mentions several advantages, such as involving the children in updates instead of the teacher being solely responsible and “leveling the playing field” so that all [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2004
- Educational blogging
Weblog Tools Collection » Educational blogging as a research tool
I believe that educational blogging is a very powerful vehicle to collect and aggregate research and assignment information as well as a powerful means to assimilate and search the stored information by a worldwide audience.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
- Into the Blogosphere
Into the Blogosphere is a set of peer-reviewed articles on blogging. The interesting part, aside from the subject, is that they have aloud comments on each article. It will be interesting to go back in a couple of weeks and see what has been said.
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
- The educated blogger
[The educated blogger] explores the role of weblogs or “blogs” in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self%u2013expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of [...]
Monday, May 24, 2004
- Libraries and Learning
Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News): Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments � Bridging the Gaps
The primary purpose of this paper is to explore potential interactions between information environments and learning environments, with emphasis on work that needs to be done involving standards, architectural modelling or interfaces (as opposed to cultural, organizational [...]
Sunday, April 25, 2004
- Educational Info Sources
Blogs can be like Educational Information Sources Online current awareness searches updated regularly
Information literacy resources for educators, librarians, and students.
Monday, February 16, 2004
- Because Librarians Teach
Content Delivery in the ‘Blogosphere’ is an article discussing the use of blogs in teaching. The authors make some good points both theoretically and practically. They also reminded me of Dr. Elizabeth Lawley, a librarian and tenured professor, who has integrated blogging software into her technology classes.
Dr. Lawley has posted links to her class [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
- Interactive Education
Huffaker, David, spinning yarns around the digital fire First Monday Volume 9, Number 1 � January 5th 2004.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/huffaker/
this paper will explore the importance of dialogue, storytelling and collaboration in children’s learning, followed by examples of digital technologies that support them.
This paper is more relevant to education than to libraries. However, I think it’s important just [...]
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
- Educause
Educause Review is a bimonthly magazine published both in print and on the web. The educational focus may not seem relevant for many libraries but the technical views are.
There are a number of articles of interest in the online archives. A few particular ones are:“Commonsense Ideas from an Online Survivor”, March/April 2002
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Higher Education Alert: The [...]
