This evening a friend posted a tweet about tips for Twitter academic users. Although I am a Twitter user, and have personal and professional friends with whom I twitter, I have had a difficult time envisioning how Twitter can be used effectively in most classes. For maintaining simple communications across the country, following a conference [...]
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If it is, and especially if it isn’t (!) the “Seven Things You Should Know About …” series by Educause Learning Initiatives is well worth a look. Each 3-page brief on various instructional technology topics provides an overview of the topic, such as geolocation or citizen journalism, its pros, cons, implications, and examples of how [...]
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(Editor’s note: Of course, we support DRM and Intellectual Property Rights, so we only encourage you to rip DVDs to which you own the rights or have permission to rip and edit.) This is a very misunderstood process and most people find it annoyingly cumbersome. Here is what I have found out to be the [...]
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Timeline 3D, by beedocs is a Mac-based software that makes it easy for users to create and present timelines. Users can create multiple rows in the same timeline, add images, links and notes, and customize the theme, colors, fonts and date format of the timelines. It also offers multiple After registering your version of Timeline [...]
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Current and Future Qwizdom Users: We would like to share some information about using Qwizdom for Fall of 2009 as well as some wrap-up information if you do not plan to use Qwizdom in the near future. 1) Qwizdom Reservations As in the past, we ask that you complete a Qwizdom Reservation form for each [...]
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YouTube Increases Upload Size, Loses Co-Founder Shared via AddThis
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U-M’s Health Sciences Libraries presents this slideshow of cool tech applications or webservices.
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