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  • Twitter or Novelty and Engagement (nee encouraging communication)?

    The Chronicle, Fast Company and many others have picked up on this article – The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades (Junco R., Heiberger G., Loken E. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x). What struck me wasn’t how many other outlets ignored the fact that it wasn’t actually “Twitter” perse, but rather engagement and novelty that…

  • Only informed opinions matter?

    According to RJ and Verne, that seems to be the case. It also seems to be the case that anyone can have an informed opinion. I guess it really only matters where one sets the bar. Beyond the comedy of the strip above, it suggests that the ages old debate that happens in Education faculties…

  • Deconstruct to find the story

    A colleague in one of the courses that I support sent this (Clark IE, Romero-Caldero ́ n R, Olson JM, Jaworski L, Lopatto D, et al. (2009) ‘‘Deconstructing’’ Scientific Research: A Practical and Scalable Pedagogical Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Science Instruction. PLoS Biol 7(12): e1000264. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000264) out to a group of us today. Not being…

  • Purdue and the Back Channel

    While it is only experimental, Purdue is starting to test how to make use of the “back channel” in a lecture in the form of an application called “Hotseat“. The students seem to like it. “Hotseat is turning out to be a nice innovation. I’m seeing students interact more with the course and ask relevant…

  • My Common Craft

    I’ve been struggling with ways to do some videos for a range of technical and dry topics for a while and after quite a bit of suggestion, I’ve got the people I’m working with to look at Common Craft as an exemplar. Surprisingly the videos are technically easy to make, but post production is of…