Monthly Archives: March 2011

Digital Is | Digital Is … “The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today.” … Continue reading →

iCreaNet Welcome to the iCreaNet homepage. iCreaNet is a research network focusing on support for development of creative skills in higher educational contexts, and was founded in 2011. The initiative was taken at the Center for IT and Learning by … Continue reading →

IMPALA – Podcasts and Other Project Outputs The table contains 10 variables, and each variable offers multiple options, that practitioners need to consider before designing and developing their own podcast application. tags: podcast design development Posted from Diigo. The rest … Continue reading →

Securing All Androids Proves Tricky – Technology Review On March 1, Google removed the Trojan applications; a total of 58 were found to contain the DroidDream malware. Google also said it had determined that approximately 260,000 Android phones had been … Continue reading →

Development of Disruptive Open Access Journals | Anderson | Canadian Journal of Higher Education Open access (OA) publication has emerged, with disruptive effects, as a major outlet for scholarly publication. OA publication is usually associated with on-line distribution and provides … Continue reading →

Music in the Classroom: Distraction or Study Tool? “According to the study “Effects of Background Music on Phonological Short-term Memory” by Salame and Baddeley, listening to lyrical music while studying creates a huge distraction. And that means people don’t remember … Continue reading →

Improving PowerPoint-style Presentations – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Many people have developed a quasi-instinctive shudder at the mention of PowerPoint. It only takes a few badly designed slide decks, read more or less verbatim, and in a … Continue reading →

LastPass – LastPass Security Challenge “Have you ever wondered how secure your passwords are? The LastPass Security Challenge lets you know how secure your online life is. It analyzes your passwords for weaknesses and tells you how you can maximize … Continue reading →

Image Citation and Reverse Search with TinEye – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Austin Kleon, author of Newspaper Blackout and curator of one of the most interesting tags on Tumblr, recently posted a link to this helpful chart, … Continue reading →

Podcast: The New York Times Joins Colleges to Create Online Courses – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Felice Nudelman, executive director of education for the New York Times Company, says the publisher has developed its own digital-learning … Continue reading →