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January 16, 2012
Wired Campus
I receive the daily emails from Wired Campus, a blog part of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Their articles are great stories and reflections on “the latest news on tech and education.”Here are some of my favorites from recent postings:Debating…
August 8, 2011
Students speak about professors’ technology skills
From The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Video Forum: Students Assess Their Professors’ Technology Skills” This was an interesting conversation, on many levels. First, this interview with four college students was conducted through Google+ and recorded with a screen capture program….
July 3, 2011
The National Jukebox from The Library of Congress
One of the research projects I have with an undergraduate researcher involves embedding audio clips from the Smithsonian Folkways website into Google Earth placemarks (see Teaching World Music with Geospatial Technology). But a May 2011 article from The Chronicle of…
Chronicle article – Using Twitter and QR Codes at Conferences
After seeing such a visible presence of QR codes at the beginning of presentations and at posters, and witnessing the flood of tweets with the conference hashtag at #ISTE11, I was reminded of this article I saw in the Chronicle…
May 5, 2011
Your online presence is not yet welcomed here
I read this article with great fascination. It is from the Chronicle of Higher Education and was included in the daily Wired Campus announcements that I receive via email.A College Unfriends its Social-Networking President (LINK)At first, I didn’t understand the…
Laura Guertin is a Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State Brandywine in Media, PA. Her research focuses on how technology can enhance teaching and student learning in introductory-level geoscience courses for non-science majors. Her blog focuses on geoscience education/outreach, science communication, and technology tools in the classroom, online, and in the field.