What if a reference librarian was assigned to a college course, to be on hand to suggest books, online links, or other resources based on class discussion? A media-studies course at Baylor University tried the idea last semester, with an “embedded librarian” following the class discussion via Twitter.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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MacWorld takes an extended look under the hood of Google Docs and shares 20 tips for getting more done by exploring some of the less obvious features in its word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software—with a few hints for Gmail, too. The coverage ranges from editing photos in place in a text document to working with multiple currencies in a spreadsheet, including some cool ways to use the revamped homepage document organizer and to maximize your editing space.
[Source: MacWorld]
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Apple last week released FaceTime 1.0, available now for $1 in the Mac App Store. The updated version adds support for HD video and a few other perks.
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Hand-held devices like smartphones and tablets are fast becoming the primary way many people use the Internet. Half of all college students used mobile gear to get on the Internet every day last year, compared with 10 percent of students in 2008, according to Educause, the educational-technology consortium.
But many colleges still treat their mobile Web sites as low-stakes experiments. That attitude risks losing prospective applicants and donors through admissions and alumni portals that don’t work, and it risks frustrating current students who want to manage coursework and the rest of their lives with their mobile phones, says David R. Morton, director of mobile communications at the University of Washington. “For so many institutions,” he says, “mobile is a part-time job, almost an afterthought.”
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Testing a website for multiple browser support is no longer such a painful procedure because of efficient and easy-to-use online tools.
[Source: TemplateMonster]
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WikiLeaks, scourge of governments worldwide, now has a copycat for academe. And the new group is itching to publish your university’s deepest secrets.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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A survey of students at the University of New Hampshire found high rates of texting during class, and plenty of guilt about the behavior.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Learning From YouTube, a free “video book,” is the first online-only book the press has published. It has helped developers build a new platform for authorship that they hope will be used for more such works.
Will similar publications, backed by established presses, count toward tenure?
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
To date, Wikispaces has given away more than 980,000 free advertising-free wikis to K-12 classrooms. Wikispaces has the stated goal of giving away two million advertising-free wikis to educators. To that end, Wikispaces is now giving away advertising-free wikis to higher education users. These wikis never expire and are full of the same features you would find if you were purchasing one of Wikispaces’s premium $50/year wikis for a business. The free wikis for educators can be made private or public.
via Free Technology for Teachers: Wikispaces Now Offers Free Wikis to Higher Ed.
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