One of the nice things about small class sizes is that it’s fairly easy to know how your students are doing. If they’re talking in class and doing well on assignments and quizzes, it’s not too hard to have keep their pulse and help them succeed…right? Back when I taught English composition in Ecuador, I …
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Classroom technology, innovation and the block plan
Classroom technology can be a powerful tool for education — but only when it’s used properly…The trouble is that technology has developed so quickly that most education systems haven’t been able to keep up, Michael Fullan told a crowd at the University of Oklahoma. NewsOK.com reported something the ATS team has known for quite a …
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Landsat 8 Launched February 11th 2013. Continuing a 40 year tradition of satelite imagery.
On Feb. 11th 2013, NASA launched its eighth Earth-observation satellite as part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Landsat 8 will join two other Landsat satellites still in orbit, although one of those was recently decommissioned (Landsat 5). The satellite is in a healthy orbit and NASA is receiving its telemetry, however no acquired images …
NMC Horizon Report 2013 at EDUCAUSE ELI 2013
The NMC 2013 Horizon Report is out and was announced at EDUCAUSE ELI 2013! The conference has been great so far with lots of ideas and neat topics; I’m looking forward to reviewing some sessions I had to miss. The report looks at the horizon for the next five years for higher education. It’s interesting …
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Make your own textbook and Open Education Resource – Gooru
Pearson Learning Solutions has announced project Blue Sky, which allows an educator to custom build a set of learning resources from the Pearson library of content as well as open-content resources, such as MIT Open Courseware, Wikitionary and 23 other providers. This pilot test is limited to psychology, but Pearson is soliciting interested professors …
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Measuring the Success of Online Education
Take a look at just about any academic or technology related site and you’ll more than likely find an article on MOOCs. As you should, they’re all the rage. It is an exciting time for academic technology. As the internet continues to evolve, so does our capability and with it, opportunities to blend those new …
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University of Mary Washington gives domain names and web hosting
The University of Mary Washington has started a project called Domain of One’s Own. Now before you jump to the conclusion that each student will get a domain name this year, read a little about this pilot project after the break:
3 Ways to Maximize Instructional Time With Screencasts
As educators in the 21st century, one of our goals should be to design student driven experiences that offer flexible learning paths, using a variety of tools to meet the diverse needs of all students. Of course, with limited instructional time, loads of content to uncover and varying comfort levels with the technology itself, implementing these types of learning experiences …
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Multiuser geodatabases anyone?
Greetings from your friendly neighborhood GIS guy! I’m pleased to announce that the Keck GIS Commons is now hosting and supporting an ArcSDE for Server Workgroup environment for use in long term research projects. SDE, short for Spatial Database Engine, is a core component of a GIS server platform that aims to enable the usage of Relational …
Google Releases “Course Builder,” an Open Source Platform for Building Your Own Big Online Courses
Adding to the theme of “online courses” Google releases Course Builder, “[their]experimental first step in the world of online education.” But beware, in the video below the 70’s-styled-gentleman in the cerulean blue video mentions “Web Master” and their skill-set to set up a course. I think it’s a great start and it’s a testament to the direction …
