Archive for April, 2010

Wiki Spring-Cleaning Tips

Posted by Dee Schmidgall on April 26th, 2010
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Having recently done some cleaning and maintenance on several wikis to ready them for the spring quarter, I thought I’d pass on what I’ve learned. Bear in mind these thoughts represent what I’ve learned building and administering premium workspaces in PBworks; other wikis may have different features and protocols.

How Are Tomorrow’s College Students Learning Today?

Posted by Jean Bryan on April 19th, 2010
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Take a look at the list of finalists in the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Competition. Each entry listing includes a description of the project entry, and some have an explanatory video. Public commenting ends April 22 and public voting will be held in early May.

"But why write about this K–12 competition in a university blog!" IDDBlog readers may exclaim. First, there actually are some college-level entries.

But the main reason is simple: We look to the K–12 experience because these students will be our students very soon.

2010 15th Annual DePaul Teaching and Learning Conference

Posted by Jeanne Kim on April 16th, 2010

The Death of Flash or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPad

Posted by Daniel Stanford on April 12th, 2010
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In case you haven’t heard, Steve Jobs has been waging an increasingly wounding war for years on Adobe’s Flash platform. It all began with Apple’s initial release of the iPhone, which was conspicuously lacking Flash support. At the time, hardcore techies poked fun at Apple’s iPhone ads that promoted it as the smartphone that finally offered “all the parts of the Internet.” The phone’s lack of support for Flash (and Java) even prompted Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority to label the ads as misleading and insist that Apple stop airing the ads in the UK.