Teaching writing in a social media age: one recent example

A writing instruction describes her recent exploration of increasing student engagement in a writing class by using digital media.   Vance explains: “As technology shifts, so does our means of persuasion; if students do not explore this, they will find their skills quickly out of date.” This meant several approaches, including a public class blog.  Blogging appealed [...]
Posted on February 8, 2010 at 9:49 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Internet Explorer retains browser market lead

In the competitive world of Web browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lead, according to new statistics from Net Applications. The aggregate of all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) – 6.0, 7.0, and the new 8.0 – constitutes more than 60% of the browser field. Alternative browsers, both commercial and open source, continue to compete. [...]
Posted on February 6, 2010 at 8:14 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Facebook as new reader: a new player in journalism?

Could Facebook become a leading portal for news consumption?  One observer thinks it already is, and will grow in that role. Facebook is the web’s most popular subscription-enabled place to read news; be it from links shared by friends or by becoming a Fan of news organizations like Facebook is now encouraging. That doesn’t mean that [...]
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 10:59 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Liberal Arts 3.0: Is It Soup Yet?

Michael Spalti shares his thoughts on the NITLE Summit’s theme, “Advancing towards Liberal Arts 3.0.” Spalti, a member of the Summit planning group and associate university librarian for systems at Willamette University, draws on his experience to provide this perspective: In “Why Liberal Arts 3.0?,” Chip German suggests that we need a definition of the liberal [...]
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 9:59 am by Nancy Millichap · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Using Twitter for instructional communities: one teacher reflects

How can instructors use Twitter?  One teacher, and author of a book on learning communities, offers this observation: faculty can quickly form peer learning networks. I could look inside the minds of motivated peers to learn about the new projects they were undertaking, the research reports they were studying, and Web sites they were exploring. As [...]
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 9:44 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink · Comments Closed
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