A great overview regarding the use of eBooks in the curriculum from the Educause Learning Initiative. This article covers how implementing ebooks works, the downsides, and the implications for teaching and learning.
Read more at:http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-e-books
EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics. Here is an oldie but a goodie about Digital Storytelling
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-digital-storytelling
Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom
by Hayo Reinders
Middlesex University (London, UK)
“Digital storytelling is a compelling activity for the language classroom. Easy to use for both writing and speaking practice, digital storytelling can be a good way to motivate students to use the language both inside and outside the classroom. Many teachers report high motivation levels, and not only for their students”
This article does a good job of explaining the What and Why of Digital Storytelling in Language classrooms. The How to Start and Limitations portions are less relevant as we have several levels of support here @ Colgate. Please contact CEL (itss-cel@colgate.edu) or Sarah Kunze (skunze@colgate.edu) if you are interested in using this technology in your courses.
http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/CELT/article/view/3360/2810
“From a teaching and learning perspective, the practice of digital storytelling privileges intuitive and local knowledge drawn from non-academic sources, most often lived experience and memory. This openness to different forms of knowledge building and the recognition of a multiplicity of voices in the classroom may well be digital storytelling’s most enduring legacy to post-secondary education.”
Digital Storytelling and Diasporic Identities in Higher Education
Gail Benick
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
In this short, 2013, Inside Higher Ed blog post, Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project, offers some insights into the current state of the LMS. Perhaps we are looking towards a name change, from LMS to SEG (for Student EnGagement platform).
Providing students access to their grades is a frequently touted advantage of an LMS. Is it really an advantage or might a more “manual,” student-centered approach be even more useful?
This 2011 slide show (not narrated; notes only) presents a nice overview of some trends in the world of the LMS (by Stanley Frielick, Director of Learning and Teaching at Aukland University of Technology)
EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics; several of these relate in some way to conventional Learning Management Systems and their alternatives. Here’s my collection of those 7-Things publications which are somehow related to LMS, ordered by date.
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Navigating the New Learning Ecosystem – May 2012 (PDF)
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT First-Generation Learning Analytics – December 2011 (PDF)
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Evaluation – May 2011 (PDF)
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments – September 2010 (PDF)
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Personal Learning Environments – May 2009 (PDF)
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Alternatives – July 2010 (PDF)
