So, I'm finally doing something I've dreamt of, which sadly reveals my true nature. We're streaming courses to students all over the world (Canada) for students in UTC's online Engineering Management program. We're using a combination of Windows Media Encoder, Blackboard, Mimio, and other free and cheap apps and products to do what other schools are doing for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of $$. Basically you hear the professor and see whatever they are presenting on the computer or on the Whiteboard. However, in the class running tonight for Dr. Alp you can also see the teacher and students on a webcam. If anyone wants to see a sample let me know..
Other than that, I'm also taking a class that is entirely online from Dr. Adsit, but there isn't any fancy video streaming and probably not any need for it, though the class is a History of Instructional Technology.
Condense Your Day With the Life-Hacking FAQK
But life hacking is different, right?Judge for yourself. As I write this, the top entry at lifehacker.com is "10 uses for lemons."
Yeah, but they're like cool techno-uses for lemons, like overclocking your Wii or shorting out surveillance cameras, right?
"No. 8 - Freshen up your dishwasher."
I love this concept, because I also don't care if students remember everything I teach them. However, I do want them to remember some things. How do we delineate between critical pieces of info and nice to know items?
'Unlearning' Makes Headlines at Reuters | workforce.com
Skills development may help employees execute tasks, he says, but it does little to cultivate the attitudes and behaviors needed to elevate their performance.
Well, I assume the former teacher mentioned in this article is me, but you know what they say..
Outdoor groups seek Web exposure - Chattanooga Times Free Press - Breaking News in Chattanooga, TN. Classifieds and Top Stories
Pretty good local videos on YouTube:
* Outdoor Chattanooga PSA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDW6Bctm-o
* Raccoon Mountain Trails PSA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VygLF1a7dQY
* Chilhowee Challenge and Festival: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmPAtZBIxTU
* Little Rock City and Short Mountain Bouldering: www.youtube.com/watch?v=slVUf8ZEYFI
Newbie's guide to Facebook | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
What is Facebook and why should you use it?
Just testing to see how easy it would be to place an embed code on the Mocs News webpage.
In my quest to make our new house even more tech-nerdy, I found this entry on touchscreens, which I am hoping to obtain a used one and use in my Kitchen as a Media Center viewing station and email (and maybe recipes).
Unthinkingly.com» Blog Archive » Wanted: An open-source, user-centered touchscreen platform
Fundamentally I think that touch is intimate and intuitive, and clearly touchable interfaces have incredible potential, especially for the folks that haven’t been brow-beaten into adapting to 20th-century conventions of computer interfaces like the QWERTY keyboard.
We'll just see how intimate it is. I bid on a kiosk screen on ebay that I want to enclose in an oak facade that matches the cabinets. Home-y!
It's not that I completely disagree, but naysaying technology and prophesying its doom seems kind of silly. Did anyone call the hourse and buggy boom a bust when we switched to amtumobiles? Changes are just coming faster, cycles completing themselves quicker, but that doesn't mean the ideas aren't legitimate or were flawed.Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Columns by PC Magazine
Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust.