The Exploratorium, originally opened in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer, gets revitalized with a new location and sophisticated makeover.
Warming up to new Gmail features
Check out advice from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog for advice on using new Gmail features.
Students, screencasts, and actual usage
Do students watch screencasts? If so, how much?
Stanford U. and edX collaborate on open-souce, MOOC-building, software
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Stanford University and EdX join forces to work on free, open source software that others can use to build their own MOOC courses. The software is used to build MOOC and LMS online environments, is open source software, and is projected to be available in June.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, Wired Campus…
Using mobile video in the classroom
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Check out these 6 tips for using mobile video in the classroom.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education blog, ProfHacker…
This Thursday: Innovation 20/20 with Dr. Kevin McCully & Hui-Ju (Zoe) Young
Join us for 20 minutes of presentation, followed by 20 minutes of discussion time…
Dr. Kevin McCully & Hui-Ju (Zoe) Young
KINS – Kinesiology
Thursday, March 28, 2013
2:30 p.m., 631 Aderhold
“Academic-Community Partnerships to Enhance Student Education and Wellness of Disabled/Injured Populations”
In this presentation, we will share our idea and establishment of a wellness class for individuals with disabilities. The class utilizes the idea of using student wellness coach approach as a way to build partnerships between the academia and the community. The goals of the wellness class are to 1) provide valuable hands-on patient experience that will better prepare UGA students for future professional training in the field of healthcare; 2) offer an affordable and sustainable wellness program that serves as a motivational and educational resource to help people with disabilities adopt a healthy lifestyle. We will discuss our instructional experiences and how the class has been evolved over the three semesters that has been taught.
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Dr. Sylvia Nogueron-Liu
See Dr. Sylvia Nogueron-Liu on “Life After Teaching with Tech #EpicFail Moments: The paper/screen balancing act”
link to video: http://youtu.be/lFXkdlC5-Iw
SUNY plans for new assessment programs and faculty designed MOOCs
The State University of New York (SUNY) calls for new and expanded online programs, including options for time-shortened degree completion and a push toward faculty designed MOOCs.
Innovation 20/20 with Dr. Sylvia Nogueron-Liu
Dr. Sylvia Nogueron-Liu
“Life after Teaching with Tech #EpicFail Moments: The Paper/Screen Balancing Act”
In this presentation, I will share my rationale and theoretical foundations to engage students in the use of digital tools in courses related to literacy instruction. My goals usually include the critical examination of such tools, as well as dialogue and reflection about the affordances of technology in the classroom. Implementing these goals requires hands-on experience in both face-to-face and online interaction, as we navigate and try out applications and online platforms. I have found that an important part of this process is to carefully examine those moments when things just don’t work. Or when we can’t make them work. I will share some insights on the shifts in my instruction and planning after debriefing and troubleshooting, as I try to maintain a balance and well-informed choice of print-based and screen-based activities and materials.
Professor Perspectives and MOOCs
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What do some of the professors involved in creating MOOCS, think of MOOCs?
Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, Transform Higher Education and Science
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M. Mitchell Waldrop and Nature magazine, via Scientific American, demonstrate excellent journalism in this piece about MOOCs.