Backchannel (and Me) in the New York Times
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of …
The Backchannel – Dealing with Distraction, Incivility, and Unfairness (#EDUSprint)
This week the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is organizing a five-day “sprint” on mobile computing in higher education. Yesterday, I blogged about …
Article: Higdon et al. (2011) – Word Clouds for Free-Response Questions (#EDUSprint)
Reference: Higdon, J., Reyerson, K., McFadden, C., & Mummey, K. (2011). Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as student response pedagogies. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34(1). …
Mobile Learning – Much More Than Just Content Delivery #acuconnected
Earlier this month, Abilene Christian University hosted the Connected Summit, a conference for K12, college, and university educators and administrators interested in …
How to Deliver a Keynote While Sleeping (#estict)
As I mentioned earlier this month, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the 3rd ESTICT (Engaging Students Through In-Class Technologies) …
Using Cell Phones for Learning in High School
I don’t cover the K12 beat here very often since my experience and interest lies primarily with the use of classroom response …
More on Microsoft’s Mouse Mischief
Last month I blogged about a new product (then in beta) from Microsoft called Mouse Mischief. This product allows multiple students to …
Students on the Move – A Kinesthetic Classroom Response System
I can’t remember how I stumbled upon this, but back in 2008 three University of California-Berkeley students, Sohyeong Kim, Nathan Gandomi, and …
Making Sense of Responses to Open-Ended Questions on the Fly
I was looking over my notes from the 2010 Health Professions Educational Research Symposium (HPERS) hosted back in January by Nova Southeastern …
Are Simple Classroom Response Systems Best?
I was quoted this morning in “At Universities, Is Better Learning a Click Away?“, an Associated Press story on the future of …