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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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Weekly EdTech Roundup, 2/23/2011

photo © 2009 Nationaal Archief | more info (via: Wylio) Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose A useful post at ProfHacker outlines an interesting way to “Avoid ‘Grading Jail’ through Course Writing Contracts” in which students create their own due-dates and these … Continue reading

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Twitter and Classroom Engagement

Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose I’ve been slowly building a set of links, resources and questions in an Evernote note tentatively titled “Twitter and Engagement in the Classroom.” But this recent post on Cac.ophony – Saign flls aftr US wthdrwl OMFG … Continue reading

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Weekly Roundup (2/14): Academics and the Interwebs, sittin’ in a tree…

Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose After perusing my Google-reader this week I noticed there were a handful of posts addressing academia and technology or, more specifically, having an academic identity online. The following links in this roundup follow that theme … Continue reading

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Weekly Roundup: Aaaaaaand we’re back! edition

photo © 2006 Alexandre Duret-Lutz | more info (via: Wylio) Cross-posted at TE(a)CH with Purpose People. Whatever you do, do NOT ignore your google reader for 45 days. Ouch. But writing a dissertation is a good excuse, right? Things are … Continue reading

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CUNY IT Conference Day 2

Originally posted on TE(a)CH with Purpose Like Sarah Morgano, I was super happy to attend the CUNY IT Conference Day 2 on my home turf as well! The day was even more focused on pedagogy and it was distressing that … Continue reading

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Weekly Ed Tech Roundup: 12/13

Originally posted on TE(a)CH with Purpose photo © 2009 Jennie | more info (via: Wylio) The EdTech community has become rather twitterpated by @TomBarrett, who has developed a series of worldwide crowd-sourced google documents on a variety of uses of technology … Continue reading

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Weekly Ed Tech Roundup: 12/6

What a busy week! Today’s flurries of snow follow a flurry of interesting activity on the educational technology front. Read on to see what caught my eye. Free Technology for Teachers, which is an unbelievable wealth of constant ed tech … Continue reading

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CUNY IT Conference Day 1

Friday marked my first time attending the CUNY IT conference, and it was definitely interesting. Having only attended academic or grad student conferences I was surprised by the size, the suits, and all the vendors. The sessions were filled with … Continue reading

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Your Writing Process: Reflecting and Modeling for Students

From TE(A)CH with Purpose Last week, yes, just last week, I began thinking about my own processes of research and writing and what my responsibility was as an instructor to model these practices for my students. In the week since, … Continue reading

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Weekly IT Roundup: 11/29

From TE(A)CH with Purpose Do edtech bloggers rest over a holiday weekend? I think not! Lots of good ideas were percolating this week in between lots of eating and decorating. Here’s your roundup: The promise and hope of distance education … Continue reading

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Weekly IT Roundup: 11/22

From TE(A)CH with Purpose Blogging success: Organic integration. Erica, a blogger at Cac.ophony, finds that blogging has been embraced by students in her course. They eagerly share other bits of media and relate classic works to current events. The blogs have … Continue reading

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Weekly Roundup: 11/15

Start your Monday out right, with a recap of useful bits from the IT world: Project Information Literacy published a report detailing How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age. Two interesting findings: students are often more … Continue reading

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Video: Pedagogy of Podcasts

I’ve been working on a video presentation using Prezi that discusses some pedagogical considerations related to using podcasting in the classroom. Below is a draft of the video, that is just under 10 minutes long. The video address the following … Continue reading

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"Nativist apoplexy" and the case of immigration legislation

This post appeared on the Social Psychology Eye blog. An excerpt is below, to view the full post click here. In Arizona a law was recently passed allowing police officers to arrest anyone unable to provide documentation of their immigrant status. … Continue reading

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State militias and individual rights: The strength of moral convictions

This post appeared on the Social Psychology Eye blog. An excerpt is below, to view the full post click here. On the eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing there is talk of developing a state-supported but privately … Continue reading

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"Junk" Science? The Psychology of the Soda Tax

This post appeared on the Social Psychology Eye blog. An excerpt is below, to view the full post click here. Over here in the States the debate is raging about how to pay for healthcare overhaul. And, here in New York, … Continue reading

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