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Who Says Professional Meetings Can't Be Fun? Second Life Brings a New Twist to Professional Networking

It's true that Second Life has a steep learning curve, and for many, being an avatar is not an appealing idea. But there appears to be a special adventurous spirit among many educators, as was evidenced by our "Celebration of Environmental Education" hosted by HP and ISTE last night in Second Life...
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Published 04-24-2009 11:05 PM by jgvanides
I hope to see you on Thursday in Second Life!

EVENT: Celebrating Environmental Education! LOCATION: ISTE Island, Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/94/84/31 DATE: April 23nd TIME: 5:30pm-7pm SLT (5:30-7pm Pacific Daylight Time) Final preparations are underway for the upcoming "Celebration of Environmental Education" in Second Life...
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Published 04-21-2009 11:56 PM by jgvanides
Call for Papers - Workshop on Social Computing in Education (due May 8)

There must be hundreds of conferences related to education & technology, but this call for papers caught my eye: Apparently SocialComp'09 (August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada) includes a Workshop on Social Computing in Education. Interesting! If you're available, read on - the deadline for submitting papers is May 8th...
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Published 04-17-2009 10:28 PM by jgvanides

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Tablet PCs Make Science Real at Bluegrass Community & Technical College

Are your students tired of cookbook labs that bear little resemblance to real science? Brent Eldridge at Bluegrass Community & Technical College (Lexington, Kentucky) and his colleagues are using tablet pcs to revamp the lab experience to be field-based, dynamic, and highly collaborative...
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Published 04-14-2009 10:00 PM by jgvanides

Filed under: Tablet PC, Innovations in Teaching, Going Mobile - Extending the Classroom
Enhancing "Live" Distance Learning with Classroom Presenter

Live classroom interaction is an instructional model that is often missing in synchronous online presentations. Richard Anderson, University of Washington, shows us how he brings graphical interaction into an online course that is broadcast synchronously to three sites - one of which is a world away... ...

Published 04-13-2009 6:03 PM by jgvanides

Filed under: Tablet PC, Innovations in Teaching, Going Mobile - Extending the Classroom, Online Learning

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April 2009 - Teaching, Learning & Technology in Higher Education

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Who Says Professional Meetings Can't Be Fun? Second Life Brings a New Twist to Professional Networking

I hope to see you on Thursday in Second Life!

Call for Papers - Workshop on Social Computing in Education (due May 8)

Tablet PCs Make Science Real at Bluegrass Community & Technical College

Enhancing "Live" Distance Learning with Classroom Presenter