Emerging Technology Tools for Career Counselors. Strategic Student Affairs Technology planning at Eric Stoller – Writing, Speaking, Consulting – Higher Education. A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization. When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. At Interactive Things, we have a set of preferred libraries, applications and services that we use regularly in our work. We will select the most fitting tool for the job depending on the requirements of the project. Sometimes a really simple tool is all you need to create something meaningful. On other occasions, a more multifaceted repertoire is needed. But how does one choose the right thing to use? An endless list of every tool available, does not answer that question and a recommendation from a friend is oftentimes more valuable.
That’s why we have put together a selection of tools that we use the most and that we enjoy working with. Let me answer the most likely questions right away: No, not everything find its’ way into this list, so you might not find your personal favorite. Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media. [This is a guest post by Jason Farman, the author of Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. His website is and he can be found on Twitter at @farman. --@jbj] The University of Maryland, similar to many colleges and universities in the last couple of years, has made headlines for handing out iPads to students. The University has given iPads to all those accepted into its Digital Cultures and Creativity Program over the last two years.
The iPad in a Living/Learning Community When I was hired to help launch this living and learning program (where all the students live in the same dorm and take classes in that building with their cohort), I was extremely skeptical about the iPad as an effective classroom tool. But if the iPad had simply been an overgrown iPhone, I think I might know what to do with it in the classroom. New Media Consortium Names 10 Top 'Metatrends' Shaping Educational Technology - Wired Campus. A group of education leaders gathered last week to discuss the most important technology innovations of the last decade, and their findings suggest the classroom of the future will be open, mobile, and flexible enough to reach individual students—while free online tools will challenge the authority of traditional institutions. The retreat celebrated the 10th anniversary of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, whose annual report provides a road map of the education-technology landscape.
One hundred experts from higher education, K-12, and museum education identified 28 “metatrends” that will influence education in the future. The 10 most important, according to a New Media Consortium announcement about the retreat, include global adoption of mobile devices, the rise of cloud computing, and transparency movements that call into question traditional notions of content ownership concerning digital materials. Of the top 10 trends the group flagged, Mr. 1. Return to Top. Web 2.0 Tools. Tablet_adoption_infographic.png (PNG Image, 1400 × 2905 pixels) Emerging Technology Tools for Career Counselors. Student Affairs Twitter Hashtags « Campus Labs. One of the biggest challenges of the early Internet was that it was so vast that it could not be explained or structured. Over time, some clever people got together to invent technology (XML) that allowed people and systems to add data upon data which described the original data.
Thus was born metadata; and it serves as the mostly invisible hand of structure on the Internet. News stories, Facebook status’, and this blog’s structure are all based on metadata; very powerful stuff. My favorite way to think about it was recently described by my roommate and colleague: If the Internet were the Stars Wars universe, then metadata would be “The Force.” – @joebookslevy Twitter, like the Internet of old, also has the challenge of being vast and its size is compounded by the speed at which new content is added. Metadata again comes to the rescue! Hashtags are added by tweeters who would like to alert a sub-community of people who are interested in a particular topic about their tweet.
A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working - Technology. By Jeffrey R. Young Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The professor's popular talks have detailed his experiments teaching with Twitter, YouTube videos, collaborative Google Docs—and they present a general critique of the chalk-and-talk lecture as outmoded. To be fair, Mr. Then a frustrated colleague approached him after one of his talks: "I implemented your idea, and it just didn't work," Mr.
It was not an isolated incident. Mr. Learning From an 'Old Fogy' Christopher Sorensen also teaches at Kansas State University, and he too has been named a national teacher of the year. "You could say I'm an old fogy," he tells me sheepishly. Exactly how he connects with a roomful of students is unclear to him, but he senses that it happens. Mr. Meanwhile, when Mr. Searching for 'Wonder'