Vakantie

iPad for academics

Gelezen in Inside HigherEd. "The iPad for academics"
"Teachers and students have always been an important market for Apple — a fact made clear by the tremendous amount of spit and polish that went into the new education website the company recently unveiled. But honestly: What do Apple’s slickly produced promo videos of adorable multicultural elementary schoolers have to do with us? And just how relevant is their newly-released iPad for what we do? Do academics really need to shell out five hundred bucks for what is essentially a big iPod touch?"
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Bibliobouts

D-Lib Magazine van juli/augustus met "The benefits of integrating an information literacy skills game into academic coursework: A preliminary evaluation" over een online game, genaamd Bibliobouts, ontwikkeld voor het aanleren van informatievaardigheden bij nieuwe studenten.

"This article describes a new tool for teaching information literacy skills to college undergraduates. BiblioBouts is a game built on premises of educational gaming that came out of research published in the October 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine. BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. Alpha testing of the game focuses on answering three main questions: Is BiblioBouts an effective approach for teaching undergraduate students information literacy skills? Do students want to play this game? What improvements does BiblioBouts need? Student response has been encouraging on all fronts"

Games en leren

Edutopia, met name gericht op K12, over het belang van gamen bij leren en assessment in "Simulation nation: The promise of virtual learning activities".
In onderstaande video licht Katie Salen, professor in design en technologie aan Parsons New School for Design, de (toekomstige) rol van games in het onderwijs toe (12.56 min.).

Scientometrics 2.0

Jason Priem en Bradley JM.Hemminger in First Monday met
"Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web".
"The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of articles’ impact. This paper develops the most comprehensive list of these services to date, assessing the potential value and availability of data from each. We also suggest the next steps toward building and validating metrics drawn from the social Web."

Financiele crisis in cartoonvorm

Marxistische analyse in cartoonvorm over het ontstaan van de financiele crisis door antropoloog en demograaf David Harvey verbonden aan The City University of New York (CUNY). De video is een samenvatting van een lezing aan de Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Hier de volledige video (31.14 min.).

De mobiele telefoon: Een medium op zich

De Fin Virpi Oksman, promoveerde aan de Universiteit van Tampere met "The mobile phone: A medium in itself".
Deze sociaal wetenschappelijke verhandeling "examines the integration of the mobile phone into every day life as a communication device and as media. It focuses on the uses of the mobile phone as a pervasive multimedia tool and its relationship to other media in the changing media landscape. The main argument of the dissertation is that the mobile phone is a medium in itself and it should also be regarded as a medium among others. In media studies the mobile phone has been perceived as a sub-media to traditional media. As a medium it has its own specific characteristics and social functions, allthough its uses may vary in different contexts and cultures. However, this argument does not mean that the mobile phone is a medium without user involvements. The role of user innovations has been important in constructing the mobile phone's role in the media field: for instance, text messaging has brought a new kind of social interaction and media form with it. Indeed, the mobile phone has influenced the ways in which we can interact with other media".

Nieuwe Blackboard-functies in het onderwijs van de Universiteit Utrecht

In het rapport van Magda Ritzen, Sanne Gratama van Andel en Ineke Lam getiteld "Nieuwe Blackboard functies in het onderwijs van de UU" worden de functionaliteiten van de ELO vergeleken met andere pakketten voor toetsen, portfolio, annotatiesysteem, wiki en plagiaatdetectie.
Belangrijkste doelen van het project waren: "het gebruik van Blackboard (Bb) te verbreden en na te gaan hoe de Bb-functies voor toetsen, peerfeedback, wiki, portfolio en plagiaat zich verhouden tot een aantal losse ICT-tools met vergelijkbare functies die in de Universiteit Utrecht (UU) worden gebruikt".
Met dank aan Surfspace Nieuwsbrief