Category: Teaching
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NXTway
If you have every wondered what it would take to build your own Segway, you can come pretty close using NXT as this team has (YouTube). The whole Segway thing never really took off as many were predicting it would, but one place that it might really have helped things out is in robotics as…
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Clickers/SRS a ramp to online learning?
This week, I’ve been looking into SRS systems quite a bit – after a talk last week and the postings earlier in the week, I thought that it was only appropriate to finish the week with some closing thoughts on the system. I think these “clickers” are great tools for getting students engaged with content,…
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Picasa Web Albums Grows
If you like using Picasa, then you might already know this – and if you are staying away because of it’s meager 250MB limit – things have changed. Picasa Web Albums is now providing 1GB and growing for storage and is now allowing users to search photos from other users – so it seems that…
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Just enough technology II
One of the discussions that is likely just as active on my campus as anywhere else that has either Blackboard or WebCT running as their CMS is “what about open source”? Many institutions are looking at either Moodle or Sakai because they are open source and their costs can be controlled. I am surely hoping…
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Clickers – Just enough technology
Tomorrow’s Professor has an interesting story today (it will be #781 when it’s posted) that tells of a prof that went the extra mile and found that it may not have been the way that he wanted to go. The prof in the story put in loads of extra time and content into his lectures,…