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Archive for Higher Education

Attending AACTE this Weekend

I’m participating at AACTE in Chicago this weekend. Glad to be able to particiapte.

Livetext Colloboration Conference

Thursday and Friday I was downtown Chicago participating at the Livetext Colloboration Conference .  Now I need to implement everything I learned! I’ll post some of my notes after I relax a bit.

Day 2 at GSU FSI-Maribeth’s Notes

Today’s first speaker is Dr. Jason Rhode from NIU who addressed Media Mashups. He shared the following ways to view his information:

www.niu.edu/~jrhode

feeds.feedburner.com/rhodetalks

del.icio.us/jrhode

citeulike.org/user/jrhode

More wonderful links for me to learn about and share!!!!

Jason’s views on Social Bookmarking:
web-based sharing of Internet bookmarks

Remixing RSS:
creating customized RSS feeds and information content from multiple source feeds

  • Yahoo! Pipes
    powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
  • Feed Informer
    create customized RSS digests combining multiple RSS feeds
  • Feed2JS
    free service for building javascript command for embedding the contents of an RSS feed in a website
  • Google News
    search and browse news sources; create custom news RSS feeds
  • Yahoo! News
    aggregated news feeds from Yahoo!
  • WebRSS
    free service for generating code to publish RSS feeds to your site

Jason’s Presentations+Audio:
presentations shared online with synchronized audio

Next today was A New Look At the Library of Congress by Luci Sweder and Sandi Estep

Then Shirley Comer on Podcasting

And Thinkfinity and Edsitement by Luci Sweder

GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute

Today I am participating at the GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute. The first presenter’s were great! Jeff Hunt and David Jakes.

Savant Drawing or Genuis?

Savant Drawings

The Future Narrated

This is the same text as in the previous post… With visuals instead of music…

The Future

The Future

This video speaks for itself…. Thoughts?

Pay Attention

Pay Attention

I think all teachers should see this and ponder it as they prepare for each day’s lessons. Personally, I find this motivational and affirming. What do you think?