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[EDUCAUSE] 7 Things You Should Know About … http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47506 Ustream is an interactive web streaming platform that lets users broadcast their own channels on the Ustream network or on a third-party website such as MySpace or Facebook. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47351 Zotero is a research tool, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, that provides users with automated access to bibliographic information for online resources. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47212 Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. [EDUCAUSE] The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/47485 In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites.

On Podcasting / Lecture Recording http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67990/ This article makes a point that lecture recording should be a standard. A survey/research shows that students have a strong preference for on-demand education and outlines their perspectives on why lecture capturing is beneficial to them (though this was sponsored by a vendor for streaming media solutions). http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67775/ This article reports on a study done by Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota that has concluded that students who use lecture-capture archives tend to have higher cumulative GPA. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3394/students-watch-lecture-videos-infast-forward An article that questions podcasting in the academia and shares instructor’s concerns. The comments are a bit more interesting to read. Using Classroom Clickers to Engage Every Student http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67903/ An interview between Campus Technology and a professor that outlines the positives of using clickers in education. Mobile Learning in Higher Education

On Using Chat in Instruction http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68502/ Part 1 – chat as an instructional tool in general terms. http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68632/ Part 2 – major concepts in using chat effectively – building ideas, constructing media, and establishing which elements are critical to making the environment dynamic and relevant to the student. On Free Online Education http://oyc.yale.edu/ Open Yale Courses, which provides education content under creative commons http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i09/09a01201.htm & http://peer2peeruniversity.org/ An article on a new idea, called the Peer-to-Peer University http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i06/06a01301.htm & http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3233 & Professor has included external/non-paying students in his university courses as a way to enhance his courses and improve community outreach. http://cosl.usu.edu/ The Center for Open Sustainable Learning is a forum for open courseware and in addition organizes annual conferences on this topic. On Wikipedia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm VS http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21558/?a=f Two articles debate the use of Wikipedia in research / as a primary source of information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia Wikipedia’s page on “Researching with Wikipedia On Web 2.0 http://www.uwb.edu/tlc/teaching/webpublishing.xhtml I was also thinking that we could copy over some of the content from this UWB TLC page to our site. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/Web20StorytellingEmergen c/47444 With digital networks and social media, stories today are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow. IS/LT/TLC Directed Articles http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68148/

Discusses ways in which staff can encourage faculty and students to utilize new technology on campus. http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68495/ | http://www.21stcenturycampusindex.com/ A survey (by CDW-G) suggests that institutions of higher education are lacking on their technological aspect and outlines some reason why that happens. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i03/03a00103.htm Discussion of Blackboard vs Open-Source, and the proposition that Blackboard Next Generation will alleviate some of the support/issues people are having with Blackboard right now. http://media.www.signalonline.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/10/01/News/Are-You.A.Facebook.Fan3460336.shtml An example of how Facebook can be used to increase university PR and student life. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MovingTeachingandLearnin g/47440 “Moving Teaching and Learning with Technology from Adoption to Transformation” by EDUCAUSE Review