Monthly Archives: March 2011

Open-textbooks from FlatWorld Knowledge

Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose Eric Frank, President of FlatWorld Knowledge, spoke today in the BCC English Department meeting and showcased the work they are doing around open textbooks. This is something that is gaining ground at BCC, as our … Continue reading

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Weekly #EdTech Roundup (3/10/11): Efficient Academics Edition

photo © 2009 Justin See (coming back) | more info (via: Wylio) Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose Was there some official decree to make this week about efficiency? Many of my usual blog-reads were offering up tips on time management. … Continue reading

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Blended Learning at BCC: Improving pass rates with ‘multifarious instructional design’

Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose As part of the Title V work going on at BCC, Professor Kenya Harris and the team of nursing instructors are making use of VoiceThread, Twitter and a number of other Web 2.0 tools to … Continue reading

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Weekly #EdTech Roundup: It’s all about the collaboration

Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose In this week’s roundup I focus on the idea of collaboration, since there seemed to be a number of intriguing posts on the Edublogs… Mashable brings us a really excellent and thorough post about Facebook’s Growing … Continue reading

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