When a lecture is more than a lecture

This is terrific, in a heartbreaking way. It’s a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the final lecture of a Carnegie Mellon professor who is a leader in educational gaming. If you scroll down, you will find there is a video of a portion of the lecture. Press the “play” button on the video screen to [...]

Oral history and THE WAR

It’s no secret that my background in educational television predisposes me to interest in … educational television. Soon, and very soon, Ken Burns’ anticipated new feature The War comes to PBS (premiering Sept. 23). The program features no academic talking heads; this program is all from the point of view of the people who were [...]

:-)

Here’s something completely irrelevant … or maybe not. Today marks the purported 25th anniversary of the digital smiley. A Carnegie Mellon professor says he first added the smiley face to computer message 25 years ago. It seems like a little thing, doesn’t it? But consider how cold email can seem when you get a message [...]

Bb as student retention tool?

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus (ed tech news) has published a news short commenting on course management systems’ capability of tracking student activity. The article, titled The Course Web Site as Crystal Ball also links to a podcast discussing the topic. At the University of Kentucky, TASC has worked with Blackboard to develop [...]

Beyond YouTube

Online video piqued my interest long before YouTube ever appeared. When I first started working in public media, as an educational technology project manager, my first task was to teach K-12 teachers how use the Internet and find useful classroom resources. That was in 1997, and having just arrived from the classroom myself, I knew that [...]

The SL Wiki

University of Kentucky has a Second Life wiki. Check it out at http://uksl.pbwiki.com/. 

Notes on Second Life

Now and then I still post to my former employer’s blog in the area of educational technology. After being introduced to Second Life, I made an entry titled “Second Life? Who has time for the first?” At the time I really didn’t know anything about SL, and found it, for the most part, a black hole for time. I [...]

UK Cable Channels

This is an old post. Please see updated channel lineup.
Okay, first of all, old technology is still technology. There are those who say TV is dead. Do you have a TV? Uh-huh. Planning to pitch it in the trash next week? I didn’t think so. Radio is still with us, too; but television changed its content [...]

What is technology180?

technology180 is a blog dedicated to tech tools and Web 2.0 resources for teaching and learning. Rather than being a fully rounded look at technology, this blog asks the reader to reverse his or her thinking about using technology in the classroom, if necessary, and apply some new tools to his or her instruction.
The author, “patsycat,” is Patsy Crawford [...]