season’s greetings & see you next year

technology180 will take a break over the next two and a half weeks, returning bright and early on Jan. 2. Let me leave you with some video … the places and faces of the Teaching & Academic Support Center at the University of Kentucky. Visit our homepage at http://www.uky.edu/TASC/, where you can choose to view the Director’s [...]

a new look, thank goodness

Happy day, I found an actual Wildcat avatar for Wildcat Thursday in Second Life … much better than the cross between a fox and a racoon that I had before. (Thanks to the colleague at UofL for the friendly recommendation.) Wildcat attended a meeting last week of staff who working in Second Life on behalf of [...]

getting audio/video copyright permissions

The non-profit Copyright Alliance hopes to be the bridge between an instructor’s desire to use video or audio resources in the classroom and the recording and motion picture industries’ ownership of copyright. At least one critic said that Copyright Alliance’s proposed wiki would do more harm than good. I rather think that it’s a step [...]

talk about mobile

Mobile phones and other mobile devices are busy with educational applications. It seems that new examples emerge every day. Here are some you might find interesting:

Educause: are you ready for mobile learning?
Ohio Learning Network: mlearning - several references to explore within this webpage
Cell phone college class opens in Japan

the visible past

Here’s an interesting article about teaching history in virtual reality. Scroll down past the video for discussion.

64 whole kilobytes of RAM!!!

Oh, my, this is the one I learned on. The Commodore 64 is remembered 25 years later. My high school (over in Murray, Ky.) got its first ones in 1982, and I was in that first, small computer class. I’ve been giving my young son “computer lessons,” and I tried to explain that when I [...]

and now for something completely different

Here’s a demonstration of musical … capacity? Is this a Discovery Seminar in the making?
Vegetable Orchestra

improving the first-year student experience

On November 8, three sites on UK’s campus hosted participation in a web conference titled Approaches to Improving the First Year Student Experience. The Teaching & Academic Support Center (TASC) has made several links available to materials resulting from that event. You can:

Watch the web conference (available only for one month)
View answers to questions not answered during the [...]

Pix in SL

Here’s a new photo from Second Life of University of KY Island. Wildcat Thursday (who is the island administrator, and is mostly inhabited by me) is watching the recent presentation at UK by Dr. Eric Mazur of Harvard, and you can see some building is going on in the Library area of the Island in the distance. There are [...]

twittering

You may have noticed that I’ve added an RSS feed (at right) to show when Wildcat Thursday is available on University of KY Island in Second Life. But it appears that the Twitter feed doesn’t always work nicely with WordPress. In any case, WT usually makes it to the island each weekday morning for a [...]