Last year, one of my college-bound nephews proudly told me that he had mastered the fine art of texting his friends while holding his phone underneath his desk while pretending to listen to his teacher during class. He proclaimed that his teachers had no idea that he and his friends were texting. Being the
Tag: tools
Free Tools Challenge!
Summer is usually a fairly relaxing season for many academics (unless you work for CTLT!) , and many of you are probably working on special projects during this season. Some are working on researches, some are writing a chapter of book or an entire book, some are preparing the course they teach in the fall
Potentially useless, but…
As an instructional technology specialist, I review a lot of different Web 2.0 tools to see if they are useful for instruction and collaboration. GoogleDocs, Wiki, Delicious, collaborative mind-mapping tools (like Mindmeister etc.), Voicethread and Diigo are definitely my favorite tools of trade, depending on what I’d like to use them for. Students’ favorite, Facebook,
