EdTech provides consulting, training, outreach and educational services
for faculty, instructors and staff using educational technologies.
EdTech provides consulting, training, outreach and educational services
for faculty, instructors and staff using educational technologies.
It has become de rigeur for undergraduates to have accounts on social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace - sites where people interact and make connections with other users based on shared interests and communities. While students may be using these sites for academic collaboration, a quick tour of Facebook quickly demonstrates that most students seem to use the service to post photos of parties and to keep track of their friends. Recently, however, the concept of social networking has been applied to software specifically created for students to manage and share their schoolwork. Two free online services, stu.dicio.us and MyNoteIT allow students to create online schedules, upload documents, and keep track of their grades. These services are not simply storage mediums. The software enables students to share their notes and other work with colleagues. In addition, both suites can import a user's friends from Facebook enabling interaction between the student's social and note-taking network.
- Al Weiss
Q: Who invented the digital camera?
A: A Kodak engineer!
Take a moment to examine "Kodak's Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures" web page. The site presents practical tips in a fun and easy way that anyone can follow to produce better photographs.
Take a look at both the Flash and the HTML version of the tips, because the before and after images are presented a little differently. You be the judge of which works better for you.
P.S. Any time you can present online teaching material in more than one way it gives students options to learn in a style that works best for them too.
- Rick Langlois
Among the hot phenomena on the web these days are mashups - web sites integrating information from multiple sources with the intent of providing something greater than the sum of the parts. Many mashups involve tying information into online mapping systems, so for example, displaying local restaurants or real estate information integrated into a Google or Yahoo map, or integrating YouTube or Google video of national anthems into a map so that clicking on that country plays a video of the national anthem being performed. Admittedly there is a range of usefulness among mashups (usefulness is in the eye of the beholder?) but the concept is powerful. For a look at what's afoot in the world of mashups, visit http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups. Currently they list 1567 mashups on their site, all searchable by tags, popularity, etc. Their "Tag Cloud" provides a great overview of the types of things being mashed up at present.
- Doug Mills
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