Thursday, October 28, 2010

have you had your neolibral arts today?

Clipped from www.wired.com

7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College






































Statistical LiteracyMaking sense of today’s data-driven world.
2.Post-State DiplomacyPower and politics, sans government.
3.Remix CultureSamples, mashups, and mixes.
4.Applied Cognition The neuroscience you need.
5.Writing for New Forms Self-expression in 140 characters.
6.Waste StudiesUnderstanding end-to-end economics.
7.Domestic TechHow to use the world as your lab.





It’s the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.




It’s the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.Read more at www.wired.com
 


Tuesday, October 26, 2010

@squirrellearns So I attempted your very clever #jbotl collaborative whiteboarding strategy with Google Drawings tonight in our Adobe Connect classroom. Students in labs had trouble with browsers allowing the sidebar chat and drawing tools. Sent 4 teams off to their own boards.. we ended up with a nice list of 'challenges to synchronous collaboration' :) I learned to scale back number of boards (made sharing more complicated) and plan around browser issues. Students were engaged by the experiment. Will definitely try again ~ kudos for your inspiration! http://amplify.com/u/e1cl

Friday, September 03, 2010

Yay! RETA/NMSU included @edutopia resources for developing online teaching practice! #yam

Our very own @retazens were found by @tektrekker in GLEF's @edutopia! Just in time to promote RETA short courses for online teaching! :) http://reta.nmsu.edu/


Lifehacker tips for establishing and maintaining your online identity



Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Google Sites and Amplify fill important toolkit functions for online UNIV 150

When I started planning to teach 150 online, I immediately started thinking about my teaching toolkit. It was a very easy decision to use Google Apps for our collaboration suite (and IM tool) but I struggled for a while to determine what my aggregators would be. Needs included wiki and blog which could be shared in the easiest way possible (not requiring another account) RSS out and awesome clipping abilities. And so I'm using Google Sites and Amplify. So far, so good. :)


New college students face new credit rules, tips from Tulsa World for talking to your kids about credit

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com


Friday, August 20, 2010

Massive privacy settings overhaul leads to amazing discoveries and a feeling of personal/professional grokdom. http://amplify.com/u/8xyv

Thursday, August 05, 2010

Ultimate Times Square 4

Just feeling the Flickr love this morning.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Excitement about #nmste10

Just came home from the Tech Happy Hour of the #nmste10 virtual conference.

Great stuff!