Syllabus Articles

Real-time Solutions for Online Learning: Using Synchronous Communication Tools for Right-now Learning

A timely article about LMS and the use of emerging technologies...Managing? Teaching? Learning!

Clickers

From our conversations in Houston at the NLII spring focus session...some universities are using clickers to poll their students in a face-to-face class. Seems to be especially useful in large classes to promote interaction. I do not know if any UCF faculty are currently using clickers.

This article is from CNN/Technology http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/17/classroom.clickers.ap/index.html?section=cnn_education

Blogging in the news

This could really be a hot topic. Check out this article. A student is using a blog to ridicule and harrass other students and faculty. Since it is posted anonymously, the university is trying to get Time Warner to disclose the identity of the student.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/13/lawrence

I believe this is a university-wide problem. Blogs set up by the faculty might not run into this situation.

Debbie

new blog, only 2 days old

Take a look at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ . This blog was launched on May 9th, 2005. The names and faces that are contributing to this site is amazing! From Quincy Jones, Bill Maher and Gary Hart to name a few. I'm looking forward to following the development of this site!

Here's an article on Arianna Huffington, the blog's creator. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3174167