SMC:posts:
In my previous posts on, I pointed out some good and some bad on the social media job front. A few asked what I thought social media jobs should look like, so I’ll do my best. But I’m not going to write this like a typical jo (Read More)
The Innovative Educator:
The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. The plan will provide a s (Read More)
Submitted by pawoli
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Photography resources can be found in every corner of the Internet, but not all are created equal. There’s free, expensive, outstanding, terrible, and everything in between when it comes to these websites. Recently, I had t (Read More)
Submitted by naormark
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Earlier this year I posted an entry about the lack of women in technology that included some of the famous women who contributed to technology and some of the causes that prevent women from studying fields related to technolo (Read More)
Submitted by PinkLisa
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Not only are teenagers 17 and younger allowed to watch certain movies, Xbox 360 just banished them from accessing social networks. Strange that the teen demographic that is the target market for Xbox systems are restricted fr (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
The “bleeding-edge” segment of the Internet has gone full-on crazy, so it’s time to give them their medicine… and fast.First of all, let’s make some definitions:“technology” does not include only the Internet“the Internet” do (Read More)
Campus Technology:
Two standards efforts from the IMS Global Learning Consortium gained steam last week during Educause with support announcements coming from a number of high profile vendors, including SunGard Higher Education, Oracle, Jenzaba (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you (Read More)
The Innovative Educator:
My most popular Facebook status update ever. Over two dozen comments and counting...Lisa Velmer Nielsen Looks like I rubbed off on this school leader who said in our grant eval report-Perhaps you could encour (Read More)
Submitted by catepol
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At the 140 Character Conference in Los Angeles last month, Parentella hosted a discussion panel with four educators that are in my PLN. During the panel discussion these four educators discussed how Twitter is changing educat (Read More)
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
Denver — The face of evil, projected 20 feet tall on a screen behind Lawrence Lessig, belonged to Britney Spears.The face of good belonged to composer John Philip Sousa.Mr. Lessig, the Harvard Law School professor, was giving (Read More)
Submitted by holeinhiseye
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Ever since the introduction of the mobile phone, there has been a shift to add more and more functionalities to mobile devices. We have reached a point where there is plenty of functionality packed into a little device such a (Read More)
Campus Technology:
When Mark Van Dyke, Ph.D., signed on with Marist College five years ago, he knew that online education would play an integral role in his new position. Conversant in basic computer applications, Van Dyke had used technology a (Read More)
Campus Technology:
While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it's being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students ind (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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Regional languages of IndiaRosa recently returned from Ashoka meetings in Chennai and Hyderabad, reminding me of some information I’d collected about Indian visits to my website, E-drexler.com. India is enormously diverse ( (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Got an interest in Google Wave but have absolutely no idea where to get started? Try out The Complete Guide to Google Wave, a new (free) book written and edited by my pal and Lifehacker emeritus Gina Trapani and yours truly.G (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
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Working in a marketing agency, I’m surrounded by buzz words like ‘social media’ everyday. Recently, however, this new phenomenon turned up in a place I never expected: the Museum of Fine Arts.I was there for a few hours befor (Read More)
BuzzMachine:
The future of news is entrepreneurial. There’s a lot in that statement. It says: The future of news is not institutional… The news of tomorrow has yet to be built…. The structure – the ecosystem – of news will not be dominate (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
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'Dronte' is the Dutch word for Dodo and this previously unknown sketch from the mid-1600s of the famous extinct bird was sold at Christie's a couple of months ago for ~£44K (about seven times the estimate!). More information: (Read More)
Submitted by simonvreeman
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Be a sponge. Read outside of class. Class reading is important, but it is not the only thing you should read. Read books, blogs, newspapers and magazine articles. Be current. Know what is going on in the world.Read the Classi (Read More)