Jennifer Kim, Undergraduate Duke Student
Has taken 4 classes with blogs, all in english
3 successful, 1 not
Why blogs don’t work
Blogs fall into a black hold
Blogs are not relevant to class and have no structure
There are unrealistic expectations
How blogs can work
Get people involved, RESPOND!
There is proper incentive
Provide an easy mechanism
Showed effective uses of blogs:
Weekly blog post with [...]
James Groom, University of Mary Washington (Keynote)
2 screens: one showing the Twitter feed, and the other with his PowerPoint
Not in the field of research, in the field of recon: throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what works.
UMW Blogs: An educational publishing platform
Came about because of Wordpress MU (WFU uses this) Free software, the cost [...]
Today is the Tri-IT meeting, an informal information sharing opportunity for Triangle and Triad educational technology folks. I’ve only attended one in the past, so it’s good to come back.
The day kicked off with an introduction to the meeting and the folks at Elon. Then, as is tradition, we went around and gave campus updates [...]
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the [...]
From Day One I was ready and interested in how the iPhone would change our relationship with the Internet and information. It’s why I stood in line to get it the first day it was available.
And it has changed how we expect to access certain types of information. Instead of jotting down notes to check [...]
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