It took a blog post on Boing Boing to bring this to my attention (internal communications here at Yale ain’t always what they should be.) A quick look over the conference program and it I found a couple of sessions of some interest, so I signed up. Here is a quick blurb from the site: Read the rest of this entry »
There is a nice overview article on the rise of mp3 players (mostly iPods) and audio files in academia. There are a couple of points I find interesting. First, audio is preferred over video by students. I find the same preference in my own role as a podcast-consumer. I’m listening to stuff when I’m in the car, at the gym, or otherwise on the move — I don’t want to be tied to a computer. Another interesting point raised in the article is that students still see a value in attending class, even though the lecture is available online immediately afterword.
This is the best thing I’ve heard off of IT conversations in a while. Cory Doctorow, head of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, talks about their work in Europe to protect the little guy — media owners who are tired of being treated like pirates just because they want to use the cds/dvds and other media that they legally purchased. It is well worth a listen:
I’ve been working with a test version of Drupal 4.7 and getting a little better grasp of its capabilities. Controlling access and permissions to certain content will be a bit of a challenge, but I see a couple of ways to handle that. The real issue seems to be a conflict between my desire to have RSS feeds for everything, and the difficulties with having authenticated access to that RSS feed.
Its nice to see that I’m not the only one in education looking at Drupal:
Mathemagenic: Drupal-based e-learning examples?
Here is a listing of some examples collected so far from his post, and in the comments to his post so far:
In this month’s Educause Quarterly javier Ayala has an interesting article on electronic portfolios. He suggests that most e-portfolio efforts so far are approached from the perspective of faculty and staff. Perhaps greater success and adoption will be gained by looking at student needs and desires, and using that as a starting point. It only makes sense — after all it is the student’s portfolio. For my money learning management systems fall victim to this problem as well. We need to be providing students with tools that cut across all their courses, and allow them to build a resource that they can take with them upon graduation and continue to use for learning post-graduation. I think the concept of e-portfolios is a step in the right direction. But we need to keep student’s needs central to these efforts.
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