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Interview: Steve Cooper of TechUofA
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor Steve Cooper is founder of Tech University of America (TechUofA) and a former Army education trainer. The following interview was conducted via email from September 8 to 12....
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Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo
By Lynn Zimmerman Editor, Teacher Education In “Study: How Twitter Is Hurting Students” on the Higher Ed Morning web site, Carin Ford gives an overview of several kinds of social networking sites and...
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Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo – If You’re Not Prepared
By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues [Note: This article was first posted as a comment to Lynn Zimmerman's "Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo" (1 Oct. 2009).] At first, Dr. Alloway’s criticism...
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Social Networking: Weaving the Web of Informal Ties
By Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Education The term networking describes the behavioral patterns that people display to gain, maintain and make use of social relationships in a professional...
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Social Networking and the Secondary Student
Most discussions on this site dealing with the use of social networking in education are devoted to post secondary education. This column will look at the unique challenges of using any form of social...
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E-rara.ch: Ancient Books, Public Domain and Moral Barriers
Contents Erara.ch Some e-rara.ch books Accessibility and usability E-rara’s terms of use A small moral barrier Italian Alice in true open access land Plea to the e-rara.ch team Links Erara.ch The...
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Making Sense of Social Networks: An Interview with Zizi Papacharissi
By Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Education Dr. Zizi Papacharissi, who received her PhD from the University of Texas in Austin, is one of the leading scholars of social media and online...
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Facebook Is Unfit for Educational Use
Due to Ning’s decision to go pay-only on June 1 (see End of Free Ning Networks: Live Online Discussion: Apr. 20), some educational networks are moving from Ning to Facebook, for instance, College 2.0....
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Computational Thinking – What Is It?
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton Editor, Policy Issues I attended the first CS4HS High School Teacher Workshop: Computational Thinking and Computational Doing from June 25-27, 2010, at the ATLAS Institute on...
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Simple Changes in Current Practices May Save Our Schools
By Marc Prensky Here’s an idea to get at least something positive out of the Gulf oil spill. What if volunteers (or BP, under presidential order) collected samples of the tar balls on the beaches,...
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