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Squarcle or Squircle?

11-Feb-11

Madison Parks and Recreation does a fantastic job clearing the bike/ped paths after a snowfall (nice for citizens who like to stay in shape all year), but Madison Streets department certainly doesn’t prioritize for their plowing for bike commuters. Here’s the contra-flow lane on University Ave this morning (note the use of bike lane as [...]

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Extra Credits (watch!)

01-Feb-11

I ran into one of these videos last Spring. Hosted by The Escapist, it’s apparently now a series of videos that makes the theory behind a variety of video game related topics very accessible. Although I use the phrase “theory behind” the talent behind it really does a great job of making it all very [...]

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Crowdsourcing Learning (HSN model)

28-Jan-11

Where do your ideas for curriculum come from? HSN (yes, that one) is partnering with Quirky in an experiment to crowdsource the development of new products. Not surprisingly, the idea is aligned with the Internet-ushered-in shift that is turning consumers into creators — of content (blogs, forums, Wikipedia, etc.), of media (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SoundCloud, [...]

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Linearity ≠ Learning (and Math)

24-Jan-11

Good Video Games. Is not what this post is about, but I want to plant that sentence in your head as you read this post about Learning Activities Math. I got terribly bored with learning Math in my sophomore year of High School. I did well enough in it, but was just too bored to continue. [...]

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ECAR 2010 (Student tech use survey)

26-Oct-10

The 2010 ECAR survey of 36,000+ college students has been published, and it’s here. Some of the highlights and trends that I keyed into include: Student tech use is socially-motivated (over 96% on Facebook) Attempts to bring in “academic tech” is a hard sell (less than 20% use clickers) They use what they’re already using (more [...]

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Winter Rig?

13-Oct-10

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Google Docs for Education

22-Sep-10

Three recent announcements position Google Docs to be the Big App On Campus. Building off the amazingly improved Collaborative Editing features (which I’ve used for conference proposals, papers, and website text design), these could transform note-taking, sharing, and student groupwork. Mobile Editing: For iPad, iPhone, and Android devices, being unable to even create and edit [...]

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Clay Shirky on Social Media

21-Sep-10

In what is one of the more brilliant observations and elicitations of it that I’ve seen, Clay Shirky explains the shift in mediaspace that we currently exit within — the shifts from 1:1 (conversations, letters, telephone, etc.) and 1:many (newspaper, radio, TV, etc.) to many:many (email, twitter, discussion boards, etc.). The video is embedded below. [...]

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Expedition for iPad

08-Sep-10

I’m using the App “Expedition” to write this post. On an external display for the iPad. It’s an interesting array of workarounds. For example, the lack of Flash support means (apparently) that the Rich Text editor/plugin that I’m used to doesn’t work, so I have to type it in HTML mode, and add all tags [...]

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