Teaching with Web technology

From ISWORLD this week. This is an interesting list.
Subject: Re: Experiments with Facebook and LinkedIn – Progress report
From: “Larry Press” <lpress [at] csudh.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:12:15 -0700
X-Message-Number: 3
Simha wrote:
> experiment to “to learn and share your knowledge about [Web 2.0] tools,
> and their role in higher education, as a networking tool for academics [...]

Staying atop the relevancy issue…

Cheers people,
in terms of teaching and in terms of research… How do you make sure that the message you are trying to convey, that the knowledge you transfer at your course, and that the research you are pursuing, is actually practice-relevant? What are the mechanisms you employ to ensure you teach relevant things? How do [...]

What videos do you use for teaching?

 

(graphic from Warriors of the Net)
In the era of YouTube, the number of videos available on the Internet is intimidating. Whereas finding a relevant video available for teaching used to be a challenge, I find myself facing the opposite problem – how do I sift through the many video sites and identify the best ones [...]

Working as an Educator

The last couple of days have been extremely sad with the unfortunate massacre that occurred at Virginia Tech. This must be an incredibly difficult time for our fellow community members enrolled in the PhD programs at Virginia Tech.
As doctoral students are usually trained to become teachers at higer-education institutions, I’d like to take up this [...]