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Faculty as Authors of Online Courses: Support and Mentoring

Posted December 12th, 2005 by Deborah Cotler and Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Monmouth University
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Echoing Balsamo and Schilling, Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Deborah Cotler argue that online course authorship requires faculty to develop a new skill set. "Our current challenge is to ensure the development of online learning that engages learners in the open-ended, inquiry-based learning that we believe is at the heart of a liberal arts education. We are finding that excellent professors whose face-to-face teaching is grounded in a liberal arts approach to learning may sometimes encounter difficulties when they take their teaching into the digital realm."

Fetch Lives!

Posted June 9th, 2005 by David Hamilton, Skidmore College
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Fetch, the venerable ftp client, has recently been updated and now supports sftp.

Firefox Plugin No One Should Be Without

Posted June 9th, 2005 by David Hamilton, Skidmore College
0 Comments | 1636 Page Views

My hate of flash intro animations and useless UI widgets knows no bounds. I have got nothing against flash in principle, but designers misuse it, and increasingly advertisers are using it, leading me to constantly re-jigger my adblock settings. I've been using flashblock to address this. Basically it intercepts any flash object and replaces it with a clickable link. If you need the flash, you can click on it and use it as the designer intended - if you don't, you never have to see it.

Flickrology

Posted March 29th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
0 Comments | 1600 Page Views
With over 1 billion photos in play and an estimated 11,000 images served per second on a busy day, Flickr is an increasingly important image resource. There's been a recent flurry of discussion on some lists and blogs about using Flickr to share images within institutions or nonprofit groups.

French Through Songs and Singing: Language and Culture Through Music Online

Posted February 8th, 2007 by Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University
6 Comments | 7684 Page Views
Aaron Prevots was looking to incorporate music more in his French language, literature and culture classrooms, and beyond that, to create a dynamic, collaborative space online in which to share this music and exchange information, articles and music-related pedagogy with others. The result: a multimedia educational Web site featuring music-related articles, streaming MP3's of primarily public domain material and annotated, downloadable lyrics. 

From Age of Empires to Zork: Using Games in the Classroom

Posted July 12th, 2008 by Todd Bryant, Dickinson College
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In this new media age, online games are making their way into the classrooom. But with all those titles out there, how do you know what to use or how to use it? Todd Bryant breaks down the game world for class use and offers a wide range of ideas and resources on finding games that enhace student learning.

From Data to Wisdom: Humanities Research and Online Content

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
1 Comments | 2736 Page Views
This computer-scientist champion of digital libraries and humanities computing provides an overview of paradigm changes in the sciences; a similar review of humanities achievements show that they still stop short of developing a new kind of scholarship.