by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine I teach Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication in the Health Communication Program . While this doesn't have to do with pain per se,...
Much is being written about the characteristics of the Net Generation learner in higher education but if you have a moment (about 4 minutes actually), check out the video on YouTube - A Vision of Students Today.. Or better yet,...
The new EDUCAUSE Quarterly is online and the article Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007 was especially interesting to me as an instructional designer. And the Top 10 are - 1. Establishing and supporting a culture of evidence 2. Demonstrating...
The National Science Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have collaborated to support a site that is being billed as a "You Tube for Scientists" - SciVee. SciVee's goal is the "widespread dissemination and...
This has been an exciting week for Tufts University Information Technology (UIT) as the UIT Spark suite of communication and collaboration tools was recognized as the winner of the 2007 Campus Technology Innovator - Social/Community Networking category. Tufts was one...
I was reading the Institute for the Future of the Book's if:book blog when a posting about LibraryThing jumped out at me. As I am immersed in the world of academics and technology, this Web 2.0 site called a "Facebook...
Continuing with the theme of mashups, the revamped EDUCAUSE Connect site pulls in resources and contents from throughout the EDUCAUSE site (replacing the old Resources section) and highlights member blog and wikis posts. Other features of the new site include...
Remember a couple Friday's ago I focused on TEDTalks? Well, TED just announced the 2007 TEDPrize winners. Three winners each receive $100,000 and are granted their wish to change the world - yes, literally. "Through commitments of technology, design, PR,...
The 2007 UIT Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning with Technology, will focus on such Web 2.0 tools as wikis, blogs, and podcasting. In researching resources to provide faculty on how their peers are using these tools, I read about...
Since last week was a short week due to Thanksgiving break, I'm a little late with my Friday's Pick so this week will begin and end with this feature. On November 16 Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies...
At the 2006 EDUCAUSE annual conference the Evolving Technologies Committee presented an overview of their annual reports identifying "developing technologies and the evaluation of their impact on higher education." The six evolving technologies are Web 2.0 applications; cellphones; vortals; podcasting;...
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'Web 2.0'. [What is this?]