At the last IT advisory group meeting I shared a spreadsheet of tools we have been considering adopting. One we know we want is something for web conferencing. When facilitating classes online it is nice to have a something that allows all participants to communicate with the group easily. Another use that is common in [...]
For the past year as I have endeavored to learn Turkish, I have been building a learning network. I followed the informal education practices of high school students I have studied. Like them I explored the Internet, less efficiently at first not really sure what search terms would yield what I really wanted.. actually, not [...]
There are faculty exploring teaching and learning online throughout the college. This is pretty cool given there is no eLearning (distance and hybrid education) strategic plan in the College of Education & Human Ecology. The OTEL Instructioal Technology group has been working with several faculty to help with a wide variety of aspects involved in [...]
Bummer OSU isn’t going to offer Elluminate as a synchronous communication option to OSU faculty any time soon. They do, however, offer webmeeting. Webmeeting seems to be DimDim lite. In webmeeting only the host and 3 others can communicate via audio. However, the host can pass the mic to other participants. It is possible to [...]
The Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing sponsored the Digital Media in a Social World February 20, 2009. I had agreed to participate in a faculty panel on using technology in the classroom. However, just days before the conference, D’Arcy Oaks and I learned that we were the only ones who were actually planning to [...]
I have been trying to teach myself Turkish through online tutorials. Recently, I found an interesting language learning site that i really like http://www.livemocha.com/. The site sets up an infrastructure for building digitally-mediated communities of practice. They have courses in many languages (unfortunately not Turkish). The lessons are “graded” by humans rather than a computer [...]