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Integrating technology in your teaching requires beforehand planning and structuring. It also predisposes the existence of a set of learning goals you  want to achieve through the integration of this technology in the class. So, the process is highly structured and pre-arranged and nothing is left for " happy accidents ".

“The challenge and the opportunity for humanities is how do you quickly analyze all this data?”

the keys for me: comfort with interpreting complexity, engaging diversity, embracing creativity esp with both structured and unstructured text, images and sounds

Knowledge gained is knowledge shared in the 21st century.

Un peu trop optimiste à mon avis sur l'utopie de la société et l'éducation 3.0 !

Innovate baby, innovet ;-)

We live in a world of networks, of nonstop messaging and degrees of separation. So did intellectuals of the early modern age, according to new research at Stanford.

During the 18th century, thousands of letters, often on academic subjects like mathematics, were exchanged between scholars across Europe. Wealthy aristocrats and their tutors penned many of those letters when they were on the famed "Grand Tour" of ancient sites in Europe.

A pioneering digital visualization project has allowedGiovanna Ceserani, an associate professor of classics, to map the routes of thousands of British and Irish elite travelers who went to Italy in the heyday of the Grand Tour.

Ceserani's digital humanities project, the Grand Tour Travelers, has uncovered unexpectedly close connections between intellectuals, illuminated the rise and fall of cities, and occasionally offered warnings about how visualization can sometimes prove misleading.

Analysis of digital interpretations of the records of over 6,000 travelers from the British Isles illustrate just how small the elite world of tourists in this period was, as well as how, "irrespective of profession and social status, travel abroad seems to have lowered social boundaries and enabled otherwise unlikely connections,"

Ceserani said.

The project began with the encoding of a digitized version of the Dictionary of British and Irish Travelers to Italy, 1701-1800, generously supplied by the Paul Mellon Centre in London. For each traveler, Ceserani and her team recorded the sites they visited, the dates of their visits and their birthplace and year, as well as their area of expertise, educational background and social status, among other variables.

A scholar with an interest in how classical sites in Italy influenced broader European culture, Ceserani wanted to trace "the actual movements of scholars, of travelers," as they undertook journeys across Europe, often coming into contact with other travelers as they did so.

Digital humanities experts within the Mapping the Republic of Letters project, of which Ceserani is a core member, helped Ceserani build the platforms "to place these objects and events onto maps and graphs, visualizing in revealing ways our material."

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strongly recommended!

An amazing collection of free tutorials of interest to teachers and trainers who want to produce online or e-learning materials, especially with PowerPoint. 

Working with people in my daily life and condition of vulnerability in central Sao Paulo. Education with digital inclusion has changed lives.

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It's a bit of an effort to digest all of this, but some useful information for digital curators.

Tying digital storytelling to Bloom's revised taxonomy.

Instead, I urge us to size the opportunity to draw on those qualities at which media studies excels — the ontology of the image, a nuanced understanding of indexicality, an aliveness to the variegations and ambiguities of spectatorship, to name a few — and to ask what they can bring to the digital humanities. We will, of course, fail to find answers, but that is, maddeningly and inevitably, the point

A useful guide for anyone who has struggled with the technology to make good quality video/audio recordings.

(Getting Smart - 25 Fév 2013)

The folks at Boundless who last brought us the EdTech Buzzwords Infographic are back with The History of Education. The graphic takes a look at how formal education began, changes along the way, current day and predictions for the next twenty years.

cute!~~

I like the features of this screen capture system. Up to 30 minutes per video, easy expeort to YouTube.  Worht a try for your next tutorial. 

Great directions with visuals to better use Google Scholar.

Thanks iPad Sammy!

Great for educators who want to make the most of Google Scholar and save time!

CoP also has its own life-cycle and cannot be forced but only be nurtured.

A good and succinct reminder of the core principles that create and sustain Communities of Practice.

This article discusses technology for children and the way they play their games on things like iPad's tablets and more. Research has shown that since children started playing mind rattling games on these resources they have improved their ability to learn at a young age. This is why it is important that applications for children continue to advance. So if you read this article you will realize that this form of technology is important.

As a parent of three under age 5, always a fascinating topic. As a former teacher, fascinated for the potential. As a borderline millenial, and a member of the generation who grew up with the TV babysitter, fascinated to see where it all leads

I am amazed when I watch my 3 and 2 year old great nephews using an iPad or iPhone. They are already more tech savvy than some adults I know.

The reasons why Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, and Agnant Agarwal have been so successful in launching and organising xMOOCs (based on what they have done in transforming online courses into xMOOCs) are based on some major factors: Being innovative, being good in taking risks and opportunities, being an expert in the area, and being able to convince and influence themselves, people around them who are decision makers, and the Venture Capitalists to join in the MOOCs. This is not about teaching only, and not facilitation for sure. There are lots of great professors who could teach (based on their teaching performance, or lecture to a huge audience), but not too many could change the world, within a short space of time.

Schools will becoming obsolete for many communications-based courses until curriculums start to find the proper training for teachers in how the rest of the world is communicating today.

G+ is catching up big time for many reasons.  Among these reasons is the Hangout integration.  

We just facilitated a remote 1.5 day leadership development session with Hangouts and it was fantastic.  

Google is sticking to their strategy and their value is starting to win people over.  I was never a fan and, through valuable features, I am changing my perspective on the suite of offerings.

This is a relevant infographic.

NICE ONE! Great reference

Key Insight: "Social Media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Make traditional media and social media work together. (Please, integrate strategies!)"

Key Insight: "Social Media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Make traditional media and social media work together. (Please, integrate strategies!)"

Can't wait to read this.

Interesting

Ipadagogy... 

WOW!!  How cool is this?!