A Vision of Students Today
This video by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University, creatively and powerfully looks at today’s students and how they are changing the world of learning and education.
Do you find these attributes as characteristic of the students you teach? What steps might you take to engage students of the 21st century? Please post a comment with your thoughts and reflections.
PoducateMe: Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education
Thanks to a link from Ken Sadowski, I stumbled across this free online guide by Micah Ovadia offering practical tips regarding podcasting in education. This is appears to be a great resource for anyone looking at getting into more of the finer aspects of podcasting and is definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.
Edublogs Campus Announced
Edublogs sent out the following email announcing their new campus hosting service. Looks promising…
Dear Edublogger,
Today we’d like to share something really special with you, our new blogging system for schools, colleges and other institutions, Edublogs Campus.
It’s a simple, powerful and safe way to bring blogs to your school. You can host the site at your own domain (i.e. blogs.yourschool.edu), create, manage and control all blogs on the site and get unlimited email (and even telephone) support from us.
We’ll also set up, host and maintain the software all for you… so you don’t need to worry about any technical details. And every Campus client has unlimited bandwidth and storage space too!
You can find out about these and more features at http://edublogs.org/campus
If you’d like to discuss how Edublogs Campus could work for your school or organization, please just reply to this email or contact us through the site.
We’re more than happy to answer any questions you might have and look forward to taking your organization to the next edublogging level!
Thanks for taking the time to read this email.
Cheers, James Farmer
Founder, Edublogs
The Other 85 Percent
Mike Offerman, vice chairman of Capella University, is authoring a new blog on critical issues facing the future of higher education. Research shows that only about 15 percent of higher education students still fit the traditional definition of a college student: age 18 to 22, living on campus, and going to school full time. That is the inspiration for The Other 85 Percent (www.theother85percent.com), a new blog by Capella University Vice Chairman Mike Offerman that challenges the traditional view of how to best serve today’s college students.
Yet another blog is born
Yes, that’s right, I’m starting another blog. You can find it at jasonrhode.edublogs.org. I have numerous other blogs already, such as my dissertation digest and my personal site. So, why another blog?
I’ve found each and every blog to serve a distinct purpose. I’ve been wanting a place where I can just ramble about anything related to education and technology while connecting with other educators on a more impersonal level. I’ve had an account over at Eduspaces for quite some time but with the recent instability of the ownership of that service, I wanted to move to another more stable host. I’ve linked this new blog with my Eduspaces blog so anything I post here will also make its way over there. However, I’m basically bidding a fond farewell to Eduspaces at this point.
Also, idolresources has evolved into basically a place to post resources and I don’t want to diminish the quality or purpose of this blog. For those who don’t want to sift through my informal ramblings, I’ll now keep those separate and over on my Edublog and keep idolresources purely links to resources related to Instructional Design for Online Learning (IDOL) and educational technology in general.
You can find my new blog over at jasonrhode.edublogs.org. This new one happens to be hosted on Edublogs and therefore is a bit restricted in terms of features but is completely free for me to operate. I’ll continue to post new resources I come across to idolresources as well as maintain my more polished professional academic site at http://www.niu.edu/~jrhode but am looking forward to using my new edublog for my very informal online journal of my scholarly activities.
Feel free to stop by and leave a comment anytime!