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Help is on the way

25 Sep 2008 at 3:09pm
Via my del.icio.us feed, I found this site, that has links to all kinds of help specific to classroom/teaching technology.  It looks quite thorough. Read More

Google Labs Creates Quote Tool for the Election

24 Sep 2008 at 7:45pm
Via Liberal Education Today, a cool new tool that lets you see what candidates have said about various issues.  Take it for spin. Read More

Printer problem? Hire a cat

15 Sep 2008 at 9:32am
A funny video to brighten your day.  It’s unclear whether the cat’s attempts solved the problem or made them worse. Read More

Loads of Blackboard tips

4 Sep 2008 at 7:25am
While we have our own wiki with plenty of step-by-step instructions, we may not be covering everything you want to know.  Here is a list of 100 Blackboard tips, some for students, but most for instructors.  They’ve been collected from colleges around the country and cover everything from how to set things up in Blackboard [...] Read More

So you made it through the first day

2 Sep 2008 at 7:40pm
It’s over now, the first day.  I’m sure there were things that went great and things that did not go so great.  Here in the ETC, we’re sorting out how to work our newly refreshed computers in the New Media Lab, helping people with Blackboard, fixing things with video, and trying to put the last [...] Read More

Notes for Tri-Co Symposium Social Software Panel

17 Jul 2008 at 2:07pm
Why use social software? For me as a writing instructor: Blogging offers opportunities to engage an audience Through that engagement, students can hone their arguments While focused on ideas, surface-level issues such as grammar and spelling become part of public presentation Creates a scholarly/learning community in miniature–following Kenneth Bruffee and his ideas of discourse communities Link to blog site (http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/woi.brynmawr.edu/) Apathy’s blog [...] Read More

Video of Information Management Workshop

26 Mar 2008 at 12:47pm
We successfully recorded the Information Management Workshop.  It ended up in two parts.  Part 1 Part 2  We covered using Google Reader and RSS Feeds generally, EndNote Web, del.icio.us, and Zotero. Read More