Web-based tools for basic composition (The Topoi)
Submitted by chromiak on 27 August, 2008 - 14:01.Academhack offers a link to Mark Marino's USC Writing Program web-based tools to help students sharpen their essays. Follow the link and discover The Topoi!
http://www.pageflakes.com/markcmarino/23536077
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D. Cohen, "Ways that digital resources can transform teaching and research, grand and small"
Submitted by alvaradr on 22 May, 2008 - 07:19.Dan Cohen has an interesting article on his blog, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, on how scholarly databases can transform how humanities courses can be taught. Here is a snippet:
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Publishers cracking down on Blackboard use
Submitted by alvaradr on 24 April, 2008 - 07:52.An interesting article in Campus Technology this week --"Publishers Sue Georgia State over Digital Distribution." Maybe the days of viewing Blackboard, or any course management system, as a safe haven for flagrant copyright violation are over?
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Michael Wesch, "Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance"
Submitted by alvaradr on 9 April, 2008 - 12:36.Michael Wesch, creator of the incredibly viral YouTube video "The Machine is Us/Using Us" and professor of anthropology at KState has just published an essay on "anti-teaching." It is essentially a write-up of a talk he has been giving at conferences lately. Here it is:
http://www.cea-ace.ca/media/en/AntiTeaching_Spring08.pdf
For those who have not seen his videos, here are three:
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Call for Proposals -- The Willoughby Fellows Program in Academic Technology
Submitted by alvaradr on 11 March, 2008 - 08:17.CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Willoughby Fellows Program
in Academic Technology
Dickinson College
Sponsored by the Division of Library and Information Services
and the Division of Academic Affairs
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Web 2.0--What is it? How might you use it?
Submitted by chromiak on 11 December, 2007 - 08:40.Academhack provides a link to information about using Web 2.0 in teaching.
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=217
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"Death by PowerPoint"
Submitted by alvaradr on 8 December, 2007 - 09:17.A fairly useful set of suggestions about how to use PP. Not rocket science, just common sense.
How student mindsets affect their success
Submitted by chromiak on 3 December, 2007 - 14:23.Carol Dweck has worked for many years on the problem of how people cope with failure. Her research has shown that having a "fixed" or "growth" mindset--thinking that, for instance, intelligence is fixed or can grow affects how people deal with setbacks. The following is an interview with Professor Dweck on her latest book entitled, appropriately, Mindset.
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1011.html (audio)
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/february7/videos/179_flash.ht... (video)
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How to read for comparative politics
Submitted by centellm on 2 November, 2007 - 15:12.I've been having trouble getting a number of my students (in a 200-level political science course on "Democracy & Democratization") to engage in the semester readings. Quite a bit, actually. So finally I decided put together a handout to walk them through a single article.
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Managing Digital Reference Materials with Zotero
Submitted by chromiak on 24 October, 2007 - 08:52.Every student and faculty member faces the challenge of collecting, organizing, and managing material that might be used in courses, papers, and presentations. For years I used Endnote to collect the bibliographic information about research articles I was reading and citing. Today many of us collect digitial materials as we do our reseach. Zotero is a tool designed to help collect, organize, and manage that digital information.
Read a review of Zotero by Scott McLemee http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/26/mclemee
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