Thanks in no small part to the iPhone 3GS, Augmented Reality is starting to grow in leaps and bounds. Google and others are also helping this growth in many ways. As I have blogged about in past posts (and many others around the web have also mentioned), the lines between the [...]
Entries from May 18th, 2010
More Fun Bashing the LMS
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Learning Management Systems
Clark Quinn has some great thoughts on “Why Bash the LMS“. While the article is a bit more balanced than it might sound from the title, I still like that he calls out what needs to change:
“On principle, I want the best tool for each task. The analogy is to the tradeoffs between a [...]
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Will The Internet Start Looking More Like the World, or the World Like the Internet?
May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education
I was pondering future trends last week while watching the evening weather forecast. Forecasting while watching a forecast? Anyways… We were in for a possible round of severe weather that week. The news anchor put up a map of “storm spotters” – a network of people that would call in from [...]
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Digital Institute Spring 2010
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education, Multimedia, Resources, Workshops
This semester for Digital Institute, the Center for Distance Education was pleased to sponsor two presenters on themes of great interest to our group: Joan Hughes (University of Texas at Austin) spoke on “Diffusion of Transformative Technology Integration: What is transformative technology integration and how can I (meaning you!) support it at UT Arlington?“, and [...]
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The Enemy is Powerpoint?
May 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Active Learning, Tools
Article: “We have met the enemy and he is powerpoint” by Elizabeth Bumiller.
WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti. [...]