Vanderbilt on iTunes U
Students use iTunes for music and videos. Now they can further expand their horizons with by adding scientific, medical, political, philosophical, art and more educational content from Vanderbilt University to their iTunes library.
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MOSEP - More Self Esteem with My ePortfolio
The MOSEP project addresses the growing problem of adolescents dropping out of the formal education system around Europe. The emphasis is on building self-esteem through the development of an ePortfolio, based on a learner-centered mode, as a means of empowering them to acquire the skills needed to succeed in today's knowledge economy.
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Adobe Releases Web-Based Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express is a new photo-editing service on the Web. It's available for free, with 2 gigabytes of storage, and allows users to upload, edit, store, and share their photos.
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Teaching Tips!
Encouraging student retention, grading practices, common visual aids, enhancing teaching effectiveness, motivating students, course design, improving your nonverbal communications, fell good about teaching? A new teaching and learning resource (TLR) from La Vitrine's Internet and Education Guide.
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Create a Team Site for Free with Google Sites
Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.
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The following stats are a collection of stats taken from the 2007-2008 school year. Have you ever cheated in a face to face course? (723 answers) - Yes No don't want to say 2 89 550 83 0.3% 12.3% 76.0%11.5%...
Description: This blog will focus on the teaching of High School online. There are many approaches to online education and we are here to share them. The tint of the cyber glasses are a result of working at the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School.
Both students and instructors use the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia and both are likely to make use of Knol. The new Google site offers short articles on a very wide range of subjects from Backpacking to Malaria to Barbecue Sauces. Net watchers will be looking closely to see if Knol grows at the same pace and to the same scope as Wikipedia. ____JH _____
The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know.
"The
Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge —
written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take
credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews
and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related
information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information,
with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of
information.
Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of
course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web
pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a
browser on any computer."
Description: This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with a broader weblog called The Open Learner about using open knowledge resources across a diversity of subjects, levels, and interests for a wide range of learners and learning communities--students in schools and colleges, home schoolers, hobbyists, vocational learners, retirees, and others.
Online law degrees are limited in acceptance and usability. But, a new Second Life seminar is helping some California lawyers keep up with their training. Recently, a group of students...
