Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

Interested in adding to your classroom facilitation by extending your class online?  Skeptical or curious about online education?

Innovate: The Journal of Online Eduction  published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services take a look at online learning from multiple perspectives in this month's issue.

Online tutoring systems, a learning theory for 21st century students harnessing the power of the social network using Facebook to create an online community to extend the classroom experience in an organic chemcistry class are some of the topics this month.

Interested in talking more about these articles or applying some of these ides to your classroom?

How can DIMS help?

Apple Classroom of Tomorrow

Wondering what people are talking about when someone says "21st Century Skills" or "classrooms of tomorrow"-? 

Here is faculty friendly introduction to the concept of the networked student, the networked teacher and classrooms of tomorrow from Apple.com.  The project is called Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow- Today.

On this site you can see six design principles of the 21st Century High School as well as an explanation of the 21st Century Skills and Outcomes.

Take a look around.

What can you do differently in your own classroom?

How can DIMS help?


Monday, April 6, 2009

A list of Edtech focused blogs

Are you interested in following the conversations around educational technology and the effects of technology on pedagogy?  If so, here is a list of active blogs that focus on educational technology.

You may recognize many of the authors from the bloggesphere and as as speakers a educational conferences nationally.