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TLT CoffeeRead: Cell phones can aid students, educator argues

Cell phones can aid students, educator argues

Michigan professor uses cell phones in interesting, innovative ways.

NMC Online Seminar on Social Bookmarking Jan 14

The series of free online NMC Seminars starts next Wednesday, January 14 9:00AM Pacific time, 12 Noon EST.

We are pleased to welcome Maggie Tsai, co-founder and Vice President of diigo - http://www.diigo.com – a free tool that does Social Bookmarking, but much much more- it is a research and collaboration tools that many of you likely use now. Maggie will share with us how educators are using diigo and hopefully share some new features coming in the next version. To learn more about diigo, please see their YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

Also, we are making access to these sessions by dropping registration! So you can go directly next week to the NMC Connect Seminar Room at http://nmc.na3.acrobat.com/diigo/

Before then, we hope you will complete out new Two Minute Survey on Social Bookmarking — and share it with your colleagues!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pag7Bc_zGya4MSj4bfBz_cQ

Also, for future planning, we are pleased to welcome Howard Rheingold as a guest for a Connect@NMC session Monday, Feb 10 (9AM Pacific) for a conversation about his Social Media Classroom.

TLT CoffeeRead: Computer games and education

Computer games and education

“Educational games are too obviously educational. The best way to learn is to do it when you’re having fun. Indeed, that’s the very idea behind educating through gaming. However most, if not all, educational games have a very direct and obvious educational slant which kids will pick up on immediately, and then they’ll switch off. Games have to be fun first, educational second.”

TLT CoffeeRead: New Grant-funded Project Meant to Improve Educational Technology

New Grant-funded Project Meant to Improve Educational Technology

A UA-led team of researchers has just earned a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a tutoring system that can tailor teachings based on individual progress.