Etherpad
Etherpad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each...
View ArticleQuickTip: Gmail Aliases
Although Gmail doesn't offer traditional email aliases, you can easily use a kind of alias (alternate) email with your existing account. This is useful for sorting and directing messages. For example,...
View ArticleGmail Redesign: Tabs
Things keep changing to web apps every day when I log in. Recently, Gmail Tabs popped up without prior warning as a new way of organizing my mail. I hadn't really wanted a new way to do that, but...
View ArticleStudent Video Production
I have yet to see educators settle on one way of having students produce and share video, especially for online courses. There is such a staggering amount of devices, tools, services and apps to...
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Khan Academy New Look
Khan Academy recently launched a new interface that is smarter and can figure out where you have gaps and help you fill them. Take a look at https://www.khanacademy.org and find (or create, if you're...
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Google Media Tools and Journalists
In a recent post, Google noted that The New York Times used Google+ Hangouts to interview U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about Syria’s chemical weapons. Also, The Weather Channel uses Google Earth...
View ArticleUse Fair Use
This month I attended a talk at William Paterson University on fair use for educators given by Brandon Butler. He is the Practitioner-in-Residence at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic...
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Higher Education in 2026?
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new report, "2026 The Decade Ahead," it has recently published. I haven't read it and I probably won't read it. My involvement in higher education is less...
View ArticleBig (for me) Data
I use SlideShare to share my slide presentations with the world. They send me weekly stats and they always surprise me. This last week, the most viewed was one on "Moodle: a free learning management...
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Is Your Professor Using An Open Textbook This Semester? (Probably Not)
I am a user and advocate of free and openly licensed educational resources (OER), and open textbooks seems to me to be one of the lowest-hanging fruits on that OER tree. I believe the use of OER...
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200 Learning Tools
Jane Hart created the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) in 2000. In 2007, she compiled her first Top 100 Tools for Learning list. This year the list is at an exhaustive and...
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Image Rights Online
I did a presentation recently on social media ethics and law in higher education, and the area that seemed to get the most interest and questions concerned the ethical and legal use of images. Ethical...
View ArticleSocial Media Research Tools
Social media can be viewed as a distraction. Some people rely on it as a news source. Companies use it for marketing purposes. And some of us study it in a more academic way. In higher education, we at...
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Following the Expansion of the Google Classroom
Google Classroom is now used by more than 20 million educators and students. It is used by teachers in schools as a limited but free learning management system (LMS), and I am sure Google is using it...
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The Dark Side
The dark side - it sounds so evil. Darth Vader and "The Force" used for the wrong things. Online there are a number of "dark" places: darknet, dark web, black web, and black net. And then there is the...
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Making Critical Thinking Critical
The news is full of specious reasoning, logical fallacies and cognitive biases. In other words, there is a lack of critical thinking. Most colleges and some high schools offer courses in critical...
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A New Kind of Way to Read 'A New Kind of Science'
In 2002, computer scientist and physicist Stephen Wolfram published a bestselling book A New Kind of Science about fundamental problems in science, from the origins of apparent randomness in physical...
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Why Create and Use Open Educational Resources?
I'm currently working on redesigning courses to use only Open Educational Resources (OER). Ever since I have worked in higher ed, whenever I have discussed open resources that are offered for free some...
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Checking Accesibility
Last week, I wrote about a ruling against a university by the Department of Justice for not making its free content online fully accessible. I thought that today I should share some resources you can...
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Want to Launch an Online Courses Business?
Having spent so many years in education, the idea of trying to launch an online courses business has never really been on my mind. What would you need to start an online courses business? I would...
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