youtube edu

Finally! YouTube has a section of its site dedicated to content from educational institutions. At http://www.youtube.com/edu you will find more than 100 universities represented. UK is not there … yet. Stay tuned.

more LOC new media partnerships

You may recall that I’ve mentioned the Library of Congress’s partnership with Flickr, a folksonomy project that led to the development of The Commons at Flickr. Next up: LOC partnerships with YouTube and iTunes. The purpose is to share more media with the public through the new media that the public is using most. Read [...]

Taft!

I love the videos from College Humor. Previously I posted the Font Conference, and today, for Friday Fluff, I bring you Taft! (Legislation to the max – this man created income tax. Taft!)
I was thinking about this because my former employer, ptv in Cinci, is working on K-12 instructional media about Taft (who was from Cincinnati). [...]

Einstein’s birthday

It’s 130 years for Albert Einstein this month. A number of Web sites celebrate Einstein and his work, including:

Einstein Archives Online
AIP Center for History and Physics: Einstein-Images & Impact
NOVA (PBS): Einstein’s Big Idea
NobelPrize.org
Brittanica.com

Bb 9 Upgrade: The Screencast

For those who don’t do podcasts (see previous post) - here’s a link to the Bb 9 Upgrade presentation created with Camtasia.

Bb 9 Upgrade

University of Kentucky will upgrade to Blackboard 9 on May 12. I’ve created a podcast episode so that you can learn more about the upgrade (this is an mp3; there’s also an mp4 enhanced podcast episode available, although some users may have difficulty accessing it).
When you finish the podcast (approximately 4 minutes, 35 seconds), visit http://www.blackboard.com/release9/ [...]

TASC Calendar and RSS Feed

The TASC calendar has an updated look that’s now available from the TASC home page. In the calendar you will find upcoming events, including workshops and special events. You will also find that we have an RSS feed available from the TASC home page. If you are not sure how, visit Blue 2.0 for a [...]

wow

This is not really fluff, but it’s something for a Friday. See and hear Eric Lewis “striking chords” at TED. Stick with it; you may hate it at first, but watch and listen what it grows into. Wow.

Bb 101 – Online!

The Teaching & Academic Support Center (TASC) is pleased to make available Bb 101 Online, the option for University of Kentucky Blackboard (Bb) instructors needing training in Blackboard, but who don’t have the time to attend a face-to-face session.
Bb 101 Online may be completed at the participant’s own pace, and it includes instructions for requesting a [...]

patterns of academic reading

There was an interesting article in the Chronicle this week about a project to track how journal readers move from one article to another across academic fields. The results are published in PLoS One.  I love the visual, which is a mapping of relationships.
My title, above (patterns of academic reading), probably means nothing to anyone [...]