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This is an online community where Learning Technologies User Group (LTUG) Members & others interested in learning technologies can share ideas. This is a vendor-neutral community - don't market products or you will be banned!

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New video & audio site: Edublogs.tv

Edublogs - that wonderful free blogging service for teachers & students has just launched an online video & audio site called Edublogs.tv. It's a typical social sharing site. You can upload video & audio programs, connect with other educators by searching the member base. It's only just released and is still being tweaked. Why not be one of the first to try it out… Continue

Posted by Carol Daunt Skyring on July 11th, 2008 at 9:17am — No Comments (Add)

Technology Challenges in Distance Education Survey

The staff and student teaching lab assistants in the Teaching Learning Center at Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY are doing research for an article and SUNY presentation on the current and future technology challenges we face in distance learning. They are posting raw data as the survey progresses. This is an interesting read. (My personal favourite: Let's Twitter and keep it simple. 140 Characters a response. Wordy, in-depth dialogue is highly overrated. Save words, save space,… Continue

Posted by Carol Daunt Skyring on June 20th, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments (Add)

New reference book - free - online!

This is a recently released reference from Terry Anderson - Canadian Academic - and one of the "good guys"! I haven't read any of it yet - but Terry is very well respected - so I'm going to assume there's some valuable stuff in there! ABB ;-) The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd ed)

Posted by Anne Bartlett-Bragg on May 30th, 2008 at 10:30am — 5 Comments (Add)

Webinar access

I'm wondering if anyone can explain how to get access to the Webinar events - tried to do everything right today to attend the scheduled event (May 27th) but had no success. Thought I had registered but it didnt list me as such on my site. This is obviously why I couldnt locate a link anywhere. Any help would be appreciated!

Posted by Diane Epoff on May 27th, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Blogging helps encourage teen writing

Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers For most media outlets that reported on an important new survey measuring the impact of technology on teens' writing skills, the big news from the survey was that emoticons and text-messaging abbreviations are creeping into students' formal writing assignments. :-( Buried beneath the alarm of writing "purists," however, was a promising finding with equally important implicati… Continue

Posted by Carol Daunt Skyring on May 7th, 2008 at 9:34am — No Comments (Add)

 
 

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