Online documents, spreadsheets, presentation tool. With a Google account, you have access to Googld tools to collaborate, edit documents online on any computer. You can organize a class and student documents.
What to do with tangled audio cables? Stuff them in empty pill bottles.
Push the ear buds in first, then the rest of the cord, then the plug, then put the cap on, it will never tangle. Just pop the cap, pull the plug, and off you go. No sharp turns under tension that break the little wires, no tangles, just cord.
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Teaching or Technology?—It Is always Teaching First "In a 2004 essay in The American Historical Review, Mr. (David) Pace, (a history professor at Indiana University at Bloomington) . . . compared college professors to doctors operating on patients without proper training.
'Why is the classroom a place for the uncritical perpetuation of folk traditions, when the operating room is not?" he wrote. "Most of us care passionately about teaching and believe that it is vitally important that students be exposed to the kinds of reasoning and the knowledge of the past that members of our profession have developed. But until very recently, it was believed that no formal training was necessary before historians began thinking about teaching and learning, no examination of the efforts of other scholars, no collective effort to ground knowledge as firmly as possible.'
Energy-Use Web Site Shows a Campus Where to Conserve
By Josh Keller, The Chronicle Wired Campus, April 1, 2010
Many colleges, though not enough, closely monitor their power consumption in order to save money and reduce their environmental impact. But few go as far as the University of California at San Diego, which this week debuted a Web site that makes detailed, real-time data about campus energy use public information. > more
Cool Tool: JING Add visuals to whatever you are doing online: onscreen videos, narration, screen shots. Download is FREE.
In Lincoln's January, 2010 re-organization, ATS now reports to IT and Mr. Michael Hill, Executive Vice President. The functions, staffing, and responsibilities of ATS will not change.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. At the most basic level, Zotero is a citation manager. It is designed to store, manage, and cite bibliographic references, such as books and articles.
SnapShots uses your links to bring information about the sites you're pointing to the viewer. They are in use on this page as I am taking a look at them.
MERLOT - Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education. >> more
NITLE (pronounced"nite-ly") National Institute for technology in Liberal Education.
Second Life - Consider a media-rich environment available to you, your colleagues and students all over the world.<more>
Information Literacy Guides Creating effective scientific posters and finding and communicating using data resources. - from Academic Media Studio, Wesleyan Universit
