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Whether you use Wikipedia or not, we know it’s one of the controversial topics in teaching and learning. Whether it’s a boon or a bane, we can find how it has changed education in the following 10 ways:• It forces students to be more discerning about sources• More exposure for academics• Editing assignments• Encourages casual learning outside the classroom• Provides another online education

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Social media is a buzz word these days. No matter how you think about it, it is shaping our work and life. In the traditional formal setting of teaching and learning, communication is most often one- to-many in the classroom. With the help of social media, communication has become many-to-many and there are more channels for informal learning.How to get started with using social media not only in

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We often talk about technology integration, but many of us would like to see some guide or real examples as to how to integrate technology into the curriculum. The Florida Center for Instructional Technology has provided an excellent matrix about technology integration. The matrix includes five levels of technology integration including entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion and transformation in

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Earlier this month, Google launched a new way to sort the results of an image search. If you are overwhelmed with too many images as a result of the Google search, this might be good news for you: You can use the new Google Images with sorting. The new function will narrow down your search to a specific topic and make it easier to find the image you need. You can watch the embedded YouTube video

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I’ve recently found an interesting tool called Many Eyes, an online data visualization tool developed by IBM. You can either upload your data to create a variety of data visualization or just explore the visualization created by others.There are six categories of data visualization provided by Many Eyes: 1) See relationships among data points thorough network diagram, scatterplot, and matrix

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With the advancement of technologies in the digital age, re-mixing is just like a breeze sometimes. However, how do we know what is copyright violation in media creation? Kudos to YouTube for its efforts in the new services. Earlier this month YouTube launched a redesigned Copyright Center and a brand new Copyright School. If YouTube receives a copyright notification for one of your videos, you

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The Pew Internet conducted a research about mobile access in 2010. According to the report, cell phone and wireless laptop Internet use have grown more prevalent. About half of all adults (47%) go online using a laptop with a Wi-Fi connection. About 59% of adults access the Internet wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone. The cell phone users tend to use the mobile phones to do the following:

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Starting in the 1930s, researchers have sought to identity the common characteristics of good teachers. Based on a research studying a group of 35 faculty members who have received a Presidential Teaching Award at a public university in the Midwest, the study found the following four categories of characteristics of these award-winning teachers.Presence: Presence shows how important it is for the

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For those of us who teach online, we are familiar with at least a learning management system, which could be Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, or maybe something else. No matter which system you are using, are you pleased with the learning management system? What are some of the limitations you hope to change?In the article, Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: the Open Learning Network, Jonathan Mott

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The embedded YouTube video is created by a student named Jamie Bell. Bell wrote: “This is the final piece for my AS art course, a flipbook made entirely out of biro pens. It's something like 2100 pages long, and about 50 jotter books. I'd say I worked on and off it for roughly 3 weeks."This video shows that there is another way to do a chapter report or a book report. A podcast, a video, or a

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Most of us are familiar with the term, lifelong learning. With the advancement of information and telecommunications technologies, there are more channels and ways to learn and share information. The instructors are no longer the authority of knowledge, and actually they are also challenged to constantly learn about the content knowledge, the technological knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge,

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TED is a good resource for teaching and learning. I often watch them and constantly share some good ones with my friends and colleagues in different ways including this blog. What is embedded in this post is about the power of virtuality by Tom Chatfield, a longtime gamer, game theorist, and arts and book editor of the UK current-affairs magazine Prospect.According to Chatfield, the video games

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Since MIT OpenCourseWare, there are more and more open educational resources such as Connexions by Rice University. In the digital age, information can be shared through different channels and in different ways. Professors are no longer the keepers and authority of knowledge but facilitators of learning. Instructors’ roles have changed from the lecturer to the guide with multiple hats of advising

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“Each year since 1985, the editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. Over the years, Outlook has spotlighted the emergence of such epochal developments as the Internet, virtual reality, and the end of the Cold War. The forecasts are meant as conversation starters, not absolute predications

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Based on 545 learning professionals’ top 10 tools for learning, Jane Hart again compiled the top 100 Tools for Learning 2010. According to the list she compiled, the top 20 learning tools in 2010 includeTwitter (Micro-blogging tool)YouTube (Video hosting and sharing tool)Google Docs (Online office suite)Delicious (Social bookmarking tool)SlideShare (Presentation sharing site)Skype (Instant

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I just read about Mapeas today, and think it is an interesting resource to share. It is a platform where world news is placed on a world map. When the readers click on the marker, they can watch the video news. The smaller the marker, the older the news clip is.This will be a good resource for instructors and students for subjects that are closely related to current world news, such as history,

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The EDUCAUSE Review dedicated its July/August issue to openness in education. In addition to David Wiley’s featured article on openness as a catalyst for an educational reformation, I am also impressed with the characteristics Maria Anderson identified as indicators for open digital faculty in her article, To Share or Not to Share: Is That the Question? According to Anderson, the characteristics

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E-Learning has become a buzz word. Then what is e-learning? Watch the following video released by the United Nations University.Sticky Concepts on E-learning from UNU-ViE on Vimeo.Is e-learning fully explained by Professor Ed in the video? How do you think?

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We often talk about going paperless, but in reality we also find that we waste lots of paper while printing out web pages such as ads, which we don’t want to print out but automatically come into print with the article. Any way to limit those unnecessary components in printing?Good news is the answer is positive. The following resources will help us solve this problem.PrintWhatYouLike is an

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Once in a while, I received some questions from faculty members regarding why I strongly recommend using images and visuals while designing their online courses. I found the following TED talk a supporting example for my argument. In this TED talk, Tom Wujec, a designer and a Fellow at Autodesk, talked about three ways the brain creates meaning.If we understand how the brain creates meaning, it

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Instructional design is both art and science. It is art because it is closely related to graphic and visual design. It is viewed as science because the design is based on a series of learning theories and principles. Unfortunately, the art component is badly overlooked because of the common use of a course management system in higher education institutions. In the early stage of e-learning,

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Four days ago Google launched a stand-alone realtime search engine that draws its results from social networking sites as well as other news sources.You can watch the following video to learn how to use Google Realtime Search. This new tool could be a good resource for the instructors whose curriculum has a current events component.

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Where is the summer? I can hardly believe the first week of the fall semester was gone. August came so quickly and going to fly away so quickly.Lots of reading, research, project, workshop preparation, emails to get the new semester started this month, but didn’t get much time to write the blog. One thing I started this summer is to research for free and easy tools to enhance course design and

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There is more and more interest in instructional videos. Since video production is usually time-consuming, it will save some resource to use open-source or copyright-friendly videos as instructional resources. Some common resources include YouTube, TeacherTube, and Google videos. Here are a few more sites that you’ll find useful for your online teaching.5min Media claims to be “Life Videopedia “

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I’m sharing my ways of enhancing the three presences in online teaching in the recent blog posting, and it is interesting to read the article again by Bill Pelz. Pelz is a professor of psychology at Herkimer County Community College and the recipient of the 2003 Sloan-C award for Excellence in Online Teaching. He has lots of online teaching experience, and I’d like to share his three principles

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As instructors, we are familiar with teaching presence which basically refers to the work of teaching before and during a course. I would like to share at least four ways to enhance teaching presence in the online learning environment.Slide Shows with Audio Narration. It is boring to just read textbooks without any additional lecture notes or study guides. Recording lectures over the PowerPoint

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Drop.io is an online collaboration and file sharing service providing users a simple and private way to share images, audio, video, documents, and other digital content. The files through “drop” are non-searchable, and they can be password-protected. The person who drops the file can also set an expiration time. You can share a file with a person you want to for as long as you set. You can have a

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As we know, one of the problems online learners often have is isolation in the online learning environment. Increasing social presence in the online classroom often helps with the situation. I tried the following four ways to enhance social presence in my online teaching, and would like to share with you.CyberCafe. It is good to set up a forum named Cyber Café or Free Forum as a social place for

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People can access learning for free anywhere anytime as What Dr. Curt Bonk wrote in his The World is Open book. A good example is another history course, Civil War and Reconstruction Era 1845-1877, by Professor David Blight at Yale University. If you go to http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction/content/downloads, you can find the syllabus, and all the videos and audios for the

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Google has recently announced that Google Docs will roll to a new documents editor over the next couple of weeks. According to the announcement, “The new editor was built for faster real-time collaboration, better imports, and more control over your document’s layout.” The spreadsheet new features include formula highlighting, sheet dragging, sheet menu, faster scrolling, an editable formula bar,

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Facebook, Ning, Twitter… More and more social learning tools come to use. Are there any criteria to help us select a tool among a dozen? How to choose a social learning tool that will fit us for a certain purpose?My simple search found that Jane Hart shared 10 criteria to choose a right and collaboration platform: Purpose – How is it to support learning?User functionality – How about its social

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There was a long break for the blog post in May. In the first half of May, I was busy wrapping up the semester and got ready to leave for China for a summer fellowship program. In the rest of May and the first week of June, I was busy traveling, presenting, and meeting with faculty, administrators, and students in three universities in China with other six faculty members and educational

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Yesterday I attended the 5th Annual Research at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) Conference sponsored by the Graduate School at Fort Hays State University (FHSU). Although it seemed that fewer people attended the conference compared with the one hosted by FHSU a couple of years ago, I thought it was a good conference.I was impressed with the keynote speaker, Dr. Julia Gergits, who

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Today CTELT and the Graduate School sponsored a panel on online teaching as an activity for the Research and Creativity Week. Jake Glover coordinated the panel, Amy Finch, Brett Zollinger, Chap Rackaway, and me served on the panel.The panel shared different aspects of online teaching, with a focus on student engagement. Student engagement does not only refer to engaging students intellectually,

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Idioms were one of the difficult things for me when I learned English. During that time there was not so many online resources to help me. The ESL learners in the digital age are much luckier. Below are some good resources for ESL instructors and students:Animated Idioms include an animated cartoon with text ad audio explanations of each idiom.The Idiom Connection inludes text explanations of

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The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) has recently conducted a national survey and it was reported that about 75 percent of organizations found skills gap in employees to meet the business goals.This report made me think about education and teaching in the digital age. Do we have any skills gap in teachers in the K-12 setting and the instructors in higher education institutions

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The day before yesterday I received an email from Dr. Gary Marks, the Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, regarding reviewing another three full papers for AACE, which will be due on the coming Tuesday. It would be easy to decline since I have completed my regular professional service for this year, but I said YES instead of NO. Despite some

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If you are a Ning user, this may not be good news for you. Ning has recently announced that it will be phasing out its free service and start to charge for its service. On May 4 more details regarding new features and price will be announced. This announcement has caused lots of heated discussions recently. Many Ning users have started to look for alternative social networking tools.

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Teamed up with the Professor Garfield Foundation and the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, the Virginia Department of Education has developed some online lessons about Internet safety. Currently, you can watch the fun animations about online safety and cyberbullying. Each lesson consists of Watch, Try, and Apply sections.Instructors from different disciplines can use this as an

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Early this month the U.S. Department of Education published the draft National Educational Technology Plan, which describes how information and communication technology can help transform American education. The plan covers the following topics:Executive SummaryIntroductionLearning: A Model for the 21st CenturyAssessment: Measuring What MattersTeaching: Improving Learning through Connected

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People often associate quality with high cost, both in business and higher education. During the current economic downturn time, how to improve quality and also keep the tuition affordable is a challenging topic for all higher education institutions.If you read today’s article, Changing the Equation on Inside Higher Ed, by Michael Bassis, President of a private college, you will find his notion

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Most of us are familiar with the three waves of distance education at FHSU, from developing single courses to developing courses at an academic program level to developing courses to ensure quality learning for online learners. As we are challenging ourselves to teach online and develop the teaching scholarship through web-based instruction, we often explore questions about the different learning

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Decades ago Michael Moore argued that the distance in distance education is not a geographical one but a pedagogical one that can be overcome by instructional design as well as the interactive communication between the instructor and the student. How to build a learning community is one of the important strategies we often consider in designing an online course. How can we decrease the isolation

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As educators, we often ask such questions as what do we want our students to learn and how are we going to make them learn effectively? Are we just make lesson plans to present instructional materials or integrate some other components to make learning more exciting?Let’s listen to the podcast by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson who is a famous astrophysicist and the director of the American Museum of

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Another interesting video related to teaching and learning that you may want to watch.

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If you explore the Books Should be Free, you will find that this is a good resource to support student learning. Here are some features of this site: You can search for books by title, author, or keywordThe graphic book covers are displayed at the website There are currently 48 genres of books in addition to popular genresThe users can download the book directly from the Books Should be Free site

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Three days ago YouTube announced that auto-captioning of videos will be available to YouTube users now. The new YouTube video feature has addressed accessibility in video sharing and made videos much easier to reach the audience with hearing impairment.Watch the following short video about machine-generated captions in YouTube videos. I’m not sure about the accuracy of the auto-captioning at this

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Bernard Luskin recently wrote about thinking about e-learning as a big “E”in EDUCAUSE Quarterly – instead of a small “e” for “electronic,” it is a big “E” for “exciting, energetic, engaging, extended” learning.How to make e-learning exciting and engaging? One of the ways that I would like to share here is to create micro lectures in online teaching. Reading and writing have almost become a norm

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Sorry that I was away from writing the blog last month since I was in China for a couple of weeks with my mom who was not doing well. After some quality time with her who is getting much better now, I come back to the office and life seems to be back to the normal.The first thing I would like to share with you is Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent in Nebraska. With lots of experience in using

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Produced as part of an ongoing collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), the annual Horizon Report is a qualitative research project that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression on college and university campuses within the next five years."The six technologies

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Common Craft’s Plain English videos, one of my favorite videos, have done a great job of explaining concepts in a way that is easy for the audience to understand. Some of the videos I have shared in this blog include ones about blogs, wikis, World Wide Web, and hardware. The new video, Protecting Reputations Online, is a video that is good for all students to watch. With more and more people

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With the rapid development of technology and more integration of technology into teaching, teachers in the K-12 setting and instructors in higher education institutions are all challenged to learn many more new things. They are no longer just authoritative figures to give lectures to students, but they are more facilitators, coaches, and co-learners. Watch the following music video (3:07) by

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When I work with faculty, I know some of them really like synchronous communication in online teaching although many online instructors don’t like it due to difficulty scheduling a time for the real-time communication with students, time-consuming element in learning the tools, the skills required to managing and facilitating the synchronous sessions, and some other reasons. I have been using

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Many of us are familiar with TED talks, but not all of us know the ten Commandments every TED speaker needs to know. Thanks to Garr Reynolds’ blog, you can see the 10 rules below. Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick. Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before. Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion.Thou

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A New Year usually indicates new resolutions, new initiatives, new plans, fresh start, and new changes. Are we really making changes in teaching and learning as needed by the use of technology? Ray Tolley shared some insight in his blog e-Folio in the UK. Tolley summarized that “'Transformative change' is not so much about the use of contemporary technology but rather about the mindset of the

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Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog. Let’s start the new year of 2010 with this amazing talk and demo by Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry from MIT, featuring a research project about a data-rich interaction with our environment in the Media Lab at MIT. Hope this will accelerate learning in the near future.

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How much do you know about the Creative Commons? The following presentation created by Rodd Lucier is an excellent resource on this topic.

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When talking about web technology and information in the digital age, people may have different responses. For educators, one of our responses is what we should do with all the overwhelming information. In his book, Empowering Online Learning, Professor Curt Bonk introduced a model that can help educators to integrate technology into teaching: R2D2. The R2D2 model refers to Ready, Reflect,

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If you're a Jing user, you may have noticed that Jing had an update last week! All Jing users, both free and Pro users, now have the ability to post your Jing captures and screencasts straight to Twitter!You can find more details at http://jingproject.com/twitter/, including a screencast showing the new feature in action.

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Last night one of my friends working as an instructional designer in another state called me, and shared her frustration in working with her clients.Through our conversation, I tried to look at her cases in a positive way, which is my style. I shared my two points with her: it is not easy for us to inspire mindset change but we might use media created by others; and it is expensive to create

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I’ve recently read an article by Wright, Dhanarajan, and Reju about recurring issues in distance education in developing and emerging nations. It’s a good article that not only helps people understand distance education issues in developing countries, but also helps people grasp a comprehensive and accurate picture about distance education in general.The article includes the following major

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Recently Google announced that it launched three new features for Google Translate, a service that helps people around the world access information by enabling them to automatically translate text and web pages to their own language. Google Translate offers 51 languages, and it represents over 98% of Internet users.The three new features include instant translation, reading and writing any

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Contrary to popular belief, technology is not leading to social isolation and Americans who use the Internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networking, according to a new Pew study – Social Isolation and New Technology.The study found that those who use the Internet and mobile phones have notable social advantages. People who use the technology to stay in touch and share

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About 278 learning professionals from the world contributed to Jane Hart’s Top 10 Tool list. Based on the response, Jane compiled the top 100 tools for learning 2009. You can view her presentation below.Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009View more documents from Jane Hart.

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ImageChef is a fun word cloud generator tool. You can write a poem in the shape of a heart, a star, a sun or other shapes or symbols. You can also change the background color and the text color. See an example I created here.

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I know about Pixel Ruler from Jane Hart’s recent blog post. With this free tool, you can know the exact size and position of any element on your computer screen. Its homepage claims that “Pixel Ruler features horizontal and vertical orientation, dynamic mouse measurement tracking in pixels, cool design.” Its functionalities include Free, easy virtual screen rulerFloat over your screen Work with

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Many people are familiar with the theory of multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner, but not so many people know his book, Five Minds for the Future that was published in 2007.This book discussed five minds that Gardner believe need to be cultivated for individuals or groups to flourish or succeed in the future. The five minds, including the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the

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Firefox just turned to five recently. This short video briefly told a story of Firefox’s development and future. You can watch the video below.

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The warm and moist air in Orlando, Florida is soothing and welcoming to someone from the wintry Kansas like me. After two workshops and social networking with other professionals at the annual Sloan-C conference today, I feel both excited and exhausted. The fun part is meeting Sue from Central State University, Murat from Norfolk State University and a couple of friends from other instituions

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People often associate comics with fun and creativity. With many comics-creating tools available, how to use these tools in teaching and learning is a question many of us asked.S. Hendy, the author of the blog, Digital Tools for Teachers, shared a presentation about Tap into the World of Comics. Enjoy!

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If you are familiar with Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, you know that people have eight kinds of intelligence, including verbal/linguistic intelligence, logical/mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, visual/spatial intelligence, bodily/kinesthetic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and naturalist intelligence.What kind of

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Time management is one of the essential skills in learning. As a student, it is important to know how to manage time efficiently and effectively.In the Professors’ Guide, Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman shared 12 time management tips. These tips includeBlock your coursesMake a planAim to make all the classesDetermine whether you’re an owl or a roosterKeep a logDo your homework on timeBalance your

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A very interesting video to explain what social media is in 4 minutes by Common Craft. Enjoy!

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My daughter who is a sophomore in high school often does her homework while listening to music with her iPod and also talking to her friends on the cell phone. I asked her how that works, and her answer is always positive. I’m still wondering how that really works.An article by Rebecca A Clay in the Monitor on Psychology shed some light on my question. Clay points out that for young people, a

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It’s another interesting keynote speech by Michael Wesch, a professor of cultural anthropology at K-State, at Association for Learning Technology on September 8, 2009. It’s about one hour, but it’s worth the time.

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Edutopia, an organization that provides resources and tools for how to integrate creative uses of technology with effective teaching and learning, has put together ten top tips for integrating new media into teaching. The ten tips includeBreak the Digital IceFind Your Classroom ExpertsGet Off to a Good StartThink GloballyFind What You NeedMake Meaning from Word CloudsWork Better, TogetherOpen a

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Written by Michael Power who is an assistant professor of educational technology at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, A Designer’s Log: Case Studies in instructional Design is a free book about an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction. I have only finished one chapter, but the conversation reminds me of quite a few cases I’ve

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Several days ago Google launched Sidewiki, a browser sidebar that allows a user to contribute and read information on any web page. .Google Wiki is free and installs in seconds.

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Through my conversation with students, faculty, and colleagues, I come to know that many people are still collecting information by traditional ways without taking the advantage of RSS feed. With RSS feed, you can save lots of time to receive information you need based on your own subscriptions. The one I have been using most often is Google Reader.Here is an article about 9 ways to check RSS

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What I’d like to share today is not directly related to teaching, research, or course design, but it is something that is interesting for everyone to know. Brain is a complex organ, and it is closely related to our teaching and learning.Are we taking good care of our own brain? Are we abusing it? Are we underusing it? Are we overusing it? Steven Aitchison shared 47 ways to fine tune your brain.

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Dr. Karen Becker from Australia wrote about the following seven deadly sins in elearning:Old wine, new bottles. Repackaging learning content online is easy, but it is good practice to engage online learners with interactive tools such as video, blogging and online discussion.All the bells and whistles. Technology should be used to meet the learning goals. Having a certain technology does not mean

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David Pogue is a technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy Award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. He is also one of the bestselling how-to authors. Watch his talk about simplicity in design, spiced up with his humor and singing.

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I was very skeptical about Twitter in teaching and learning, but the recent reports on the growth of its use have greatly drawn my attention. As a passionate educational technologist and online educator, I cannot help exploring and experimenting it in my own online teaching this fall.I found the tweeting guidelines shared by Dunlap and Lowenthal (2009) for adopting Twitter in online learning very

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While many people still keep on asking why I need to use Web 2.0 tools, let’s view what Sacha Chua shared in her presentation: A Teacher’s Guide to Web 2.0 at School.

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One year ago I started this blog with a post on a brief introduction to Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). I initiated the blog for two purposes: 1) keep myself reading and writing on a regular basis; and 2) create a platform for our faculty to learn and share. After one year, the result is more than what I expected.Here are some simple numbers from the

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When I started my work at Fort Hays State University (FHSU), my colleagues often joked with me about another university with which I’m associated. My supervisor even asked me to change my dress because of its color associated with that university‘s mascot before the President and the Provost’s annual visit to our department (Of course, it’s a joke!).It was fun to start a new position like that.

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On August 31 the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) released an unprecedented study that offers institutions guidance for continued growth of online learning. This study, Online Learning as a Strategic Asset, contains 231 interviews with administrators, faculty, and students at 45 public institutions across the country and 10,700 responses from tenure/non-tenure and full-and

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I was away from reading and writing for the past four weeks. My schedule was filled with a very heavy workload related to the daily operations of a support unit that tried to get the new semester running. I’m glad that we survived the first two busy weeks despite the personnel changes at the last moment.What I’d like to share with you first after a long break is 100 reasons to use mind map shared

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Twitter has become the #1 tool for learning in 2009. Whether you are skeptical about Twitter as I did one year ago or maybe you are exploring this tool about its great potential in teaching as I’m doing now, I hope the embedded presentation by Tom Barrett will be helpful. Tom shared some excellent ideas of using Twitter in the classroom. Enjoy and have fun!

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If you or your students do not know anything about HTML code or web development programs such as Dreamweaver, you can still create a very nice website. The free and user-friendly tool is Google Sites.You can use Google sites as a wiki tool with which you can not only present your content through text but also through images, slide shows, and videos. From K-12 class projects to college projects,

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The world is not only “flat”, but it is also “open” now!Curtis Bonk’s new book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, has recently been released. In this book, Bonk explores the following ten trends that make up the “WE-ALL-LEARN” framework for understanding the potential of technology’s impact on learning in the 21st century. Web Searching in the World of

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Open Culture is a collection of free online courses and lectures from great universities. The collection contains about 200 free audio and video lectures and courses in humanities and sciences. Below is Open Culture’s mission:“Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic,

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WatchKnow is a free online source created by people who care about the education of children. In WatchKnow, you can find the best free educational videos for kids online, put them into a great directory, rate and comment them, and reward the best with cash prizes. The categorization items in the directory include reading and language arts, mathematics, science, history, social studies, languages,

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Lavrusik, a graduate student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, discussed the following 10 ways how universities are using social media for communication and public affairs.Gathering and sharing information. YouTuube, Facebook and Twitter are often used to supplement traditional press releases.Showcasing student and faculty workProving a platform to broadcast

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After his The Machine is US/ing Us, Michael Wesch just posted another cool YouTube video about three days ago: The Machine is (Changing) Us. It is a presentation that he gave at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz at Lincoln Center. It’s about 34 minutes long.

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Yesterday Google announced that a template gallery has been opened up to the public and added a “Submit a template” link in the top tight corner of the gallery page. The templates include documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. If you want to add a template to the public template gallery, you can follow the following three steps: Go to the Google Docs Template Gallery Click the “Submit

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