2015 archive
The Brutal Authenticity Of BYOD
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/byod-is-shortest-path-to-student-centered-learning/
By allowing students to bring in their own devices for learning–rather than insisting that they learn both content and device in school–there is an important opportunity to connect with not just their personal lives, but their natural way of doing things.
Equity
While there are students who badly want technology and can’t afford even the $50, that doesn’t seem to be a strong argument against BYOD adoption, especially in light of what it costs—in time and money—to purchase, train, integrate, and maintain—state-funded, district-purchased, school-assigned devices. This is where schools, local organizations, and communities can step in.
Money and Learning
In the United States there can be a tendency to throw money at problems that are not fully understood. As a nation, America lags behind internationally, the “learning market” being one of the few markets proving evasive in lieu of continued effort, struggle, and spending.
More on BYOD in this blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=byod
11 Sample Education BYOT Policies To Help You Create Your Own
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/11-sample-education-byot-policies-to-help-you-create-your-own
http://campustechnology.com/webcasts/2015/03/stratasys-integrate-3d-printing-033115.aspx
More on 3D printing in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=3d+printing
The author erroneously focuses on Snapchat as a service and university administration, monitoring and censorship; it is a basic issue of education. Educating the Millennials and Gen Z about privacy, netiquette and digital humanity.
Education is about letting students explore, fail, learn from their failure and improve. #FinlandPhenomenon
Temporary Messages, Lasting Impact
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/27/monitoring-student-behavior-snapchat-next-impossible-administrators-say
From the responses under the article:
OccupareVeritas
Still trying to understand the academy’s apparent obsession with monitoring and controlling/influencing every possible aspect of student and faculty behavior, on and off campus. Sometimes I can’t decide if it’s kind of a Stalinist control thing, a guy in the back of a windowless van thing, or some kind of extension of a juvenile obsession with everyone’s behavior but your own. That someone complains does not automatically suggest that someone must “do something,” particularly when “doing something” is often prohibited by law to begin with (in the case of administrators and the university).
Here are some free resources to get your flipped classroom organized.
Content Banks:
1. Crash Course
2. Eduvision by FlippedLearning Network
Resources to Create Your Own Lessons:
3. Screencast-o-matic
4. PowToon
Hosting Depositories:
5. Screencast
6. TeacherTube
Learning Management Systems (LMS):
7. Lore
8. Sakai
Flipped Schools and Districts to Research:
9. Lake Elmo Elementary in Stillwater, MN
10. Summit Public Schools
http://www.edudemic.com/10-resources-for-flipped-classroom/
Sqworl, like Delicious and Diigo, is a bookmarking tool that can be useful in the classroom. Sqworl takes a screenshot of the sites you bookmark and opens each bookmark in the same browser tab for easy navigation.
Richard Byrne demonstrates Sqworl’s visual bookmark features in his video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rlAzSmnXbbY
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/11/sqworl-simple-visual-bookmarking-tool.html?m=1
http://edtechreview.in/news/1735-plagiarism-in-college-how-to-avoid-the-trap
Campus Technology Webcast | Georgetown University Brings Hoyas Together Using Google Apps for Education
Beth Anna Bergsmark, Associate Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect
http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/console/EventConsoleNG.jsp
For your convenience, the presentation is now available on-demand at: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=943162&s=1&k=EEB98B7670230B430D2C5D40A99B0E1D.You can view it at any time or share it with a colleague.
use lighweight Google tools versus heavy weight (time consuming to learn) tools. able to connect, participate online. Georgetown policy is “never close campus” and light-weight tools help faculty do that .
#GoogleEdu
google.com/edu/higher-education
even faculty video service integrated with LMS (SCSU = Kaltura + D2L), faculty still are encouraged to use youTube.
migrations lose metadata. Google migration highly automated, but other modernisations, but sites older then 10 years were scrapped.
aside of Google Glass, are there other Google apps used in the medical school. Answers: Google calendar
Yes it can and I, Plamen Miltenoff, am trying to convince my esteemed colleagues and administration at LRS to consider educause blog hosted at SCSU as the main vehicle for information. Main consideration is that integrated the blog (as social media) with other social media.
At this point, I have not received an indication that I am even understood what am I proposing. It is that desperate.
MEANWHILE,
ALA offers the following eCourse:
Using WordPress to Build Library Websites
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx
it has happened in the past that SCSU money is spent on activity, which I am educated and experienced to deliver. Lets hope that before someone signs for this workshop, h/she might turn fist to me for information.
If you have a desire to bring your departmental Web presence in the 21st century, please feel welcome to contact me.
Google has their own site to help you learn how to use Google Apps, Learn Google Apps.
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The site has tips on switching from other systems, tutorials, articles, tips and tricks, videos, examples of using Google Apps and much more. You can also learn by each app individually.
There’s even an weekly episode of the “Apps Show” where you can learn about new tips and features.
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/googles-own-learn-google-apps-site.html?m=1