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Me in four slides

dr.curry @ August 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet

So a few weeks ago Dan Meyer, who writes dy/dan, held a four slide contest. The purpose was to see if you could represent yourself completely in four slides. Now the problem for me is that I have NO TALENT when it comes to visual representation, but I want my grad students in my online [...]

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Facebook for CMS?

dr.curry @ August 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Susan (?) at Ubernoggin proposed using Facebook as your CMS. She wrote:
Getting tired of the Learning Management System on your campus? Ever look to see how infrequently your students actually log in to see their assignments etc? Let me tell you, it’s pretty darn infrequently. So why not create a course site on a [...]

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Wikis in the classroom

dr.curry @ July 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet

I’m always on the lookout for integration ideas and how to explain the benefits of Web 2.0 to people. Today as I read the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, I ran across the following slideshow by Adam Frey (founder of Wikispaces) on Wikis in the classroom. See it after the jump.

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YouTube Hall of Fame

dr.curry @ June 26, 2006 # No Comment Yet

One of my favorite writers is Bill Simmons, or the Sports Guy (you can find him on ESPN’s Page 2). Today he posted his YouTube Hall of Fame. YouTube has long been one of my favorite websites (I love being able to watch all the old 80s videos), but this is just great. [...]

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