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Sigh, the dog has been a lazy conference blogger, too much scenery in Vancouver, good food and drink, to have enough energy to continually blog the sessions, Fortunately, others are feverishly at it, see the blog aggregator created by Stephen Downes.
NMC continues to he my favorite confence for the people who come, for the stuff [...]

James Farmer has shared an interesting idea of building a collection of audio “readings” of articles, and Stephen Downes has taken the idea and ran it as an online audio jukebox.
I’m not much of an avid reader of academic articles, so I let is slide into the “neat idea but no time to bother” category– [...]

Philosophical question: If a presentation falls in the woods, and there is no one there, does it make a sound? Or for that matter, if you miss a conference presentation, does an abstract, a paper, or even the PowerPoint itself really provide information (worth the weight, er… wait, of the download?)
Like Jay Cross’s recently posted [...]

Thanks to a friend inside Blackboard, I got a peek a few weeks ago at a Building Block (plug-ins for Blackboard) that provides a wiki functionality inside the Blackboard environment. I’d put up some screen shots, but the Bb Showcase site seems to be offline right now.
What was interesting was the shying away from even [...]

My friend and colleague Donna Rebadow, teacher extrordinaire at Paradise Valley Community College, is spearheading an effort at “Bridging the Digital Divide”. As the Pam Te Project, she is hoping in June to travel to Chiapas Mexico, with a load of donated used laptops to support the education of Mayan students:
There are 60 young, indigenous [...]

(yes, something not related to spam)
I had seen and recommended before the British Library’s Turning the Pages site, but was recently reminded of it in an email exchange. To me this is one of the prime examples of what the Internet can provide- a rich interactive experience with a resource that would not be [...]

Just posted the web version of our once per semester publication, the mcli Forum which our office has been publishing in print and paper since 1993 (before 2000 it was the Labyrinth-Forum). We have a mixture of faculty, guest, and our own staff authored articles that highlight teaching, learning, assessment, and technology efforts at Maricopa.
The [...]

Nice…. “Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online” , presented as a WebQuest:
“Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site”
This has your basic components of a webquest, a task, [...]

Joe Moxley, English faculty at the University of South Florida created Teaching Wiki, rolling with a good set of examples and specific ideas of how teachers and students might (and are) using wikis:
Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty. We imagine our primary audience to be faculty who are interested in [...]

And now for something completely irrelevant, but dear our heart (see our blog top tagline):

Found at Red Ferret’s Dog Blog by way of Smartmobs.
But what serendipity again. The Red Ferret Journal is rich with images and cool toys. Better furl it now.
The Ferret is a weblog which looks at gadgets, software, web sites and [...]