Posted on July 16, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So back in April, gg at Skulls in the Stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline, and then write a blog post about it. The results are in, and they’re awesome. Not just fascinating - this is a potential time suck (with none of the [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2008 by Anne-Marie
at least in my head. My head is tired, though, from speaking at this and at this. So I may not be making any sense.
Last week before I got sucked into preparing stuff I had a brief exchange about peer review with John Daly on the K4D blog and he said something that resonated but [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Age check - does this look familiar?
At first, I thought this was a sign of how ubiquitous 80’s movies are on TNT and TBS - that even the poster could be used to market to these kids today who seem to love the 80’s beyond all reason…
(and I mean ALL reason. The 80’s were [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Lately I’ve noticed a number of different conversations I’ve been having coalescing around the question of evaluation - how can students evaluate the information they find. Some of the conversations have been versions of your normal standard “information on the web can be bad” and aren’t very interesting, but more of them have been [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by Anne-Marie
The word “follow” suddenly looks really strange to me.
A few quick follow-ups from last week’s posts:
The Ryerson student who was threatened with expulsion for administering a study group in Facebook will not be expelled. There will be some fallout from this episode that sticks with him, but he was not found guilty of 147 counts [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I gave a short presentation on assessment at the 7th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources on Saturday. I don’t usually get the chance to attend specific discipline-focused conferences like this, even those about the scholarship of teaching and learning, and if UENR hadn’t been hosted by the OSU Colleges of Agricultural [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Two things this morning - both touching on issues of digital learning, learning communities, learning socially and the big question - is higher ed closing students off from the kinds of tools and skills they’ll need to be lifelong learners?
Writer Response Theory provides this exercise to help students find their Social Bookmarking Soulmates. Basically the [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So Princeton is hoping to send 10% of their incoming first-years to do a year of social service work in other countries before they ever enroll in classes. I saw a mention of this in Inside Higher Ed yesterday and I keep thinking about it. On the one hand, this seems like [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by Anne-Marie
