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[Media Relations] Ithaca College Faculty Members Win Grant to Examine Wiki Use by ...: Michael Smith, associate professor of history and environmental studies and sciences, and Ali Erkan, associate professor of computer science, were awarded the grant for their project titled “Untangling the Web of Historical Thinking: What the Structures of Student-Produced Wikis Reveal.”

[All the WIKI News] kentwired.com | All the WIKI News: it’s about us together learning to handle the things that happen within our communities.” In order to further the learning experience gained from “Ten Years Later,” Nadon said the opening performance will be followed by a brief discussion on the show and a question-and-answer session with members of Kent Trumbull Theatre, LGBT Studies and Justice Studies. “I believe in theatre for social change, where we can look at our lives and our communities’ responses to things,” Nadon said.

[Oneworldforusall.com] TLT's Innovative Instruction Series – Darryl Phillips and Wikis ...: In November, 2010 we had the opportunity to sit down with Darryl Phillips, Speaker of the Faculty and a professor in the Classics Department, to discuss how using wikis (PBWorks) has changed the way he teaches his class. Darryl earned an AB degree in Classics from Stanford University in 1989 and a Ph.D.

[A Computer Scientist in a Business School] Replacing Survey Articles with Wikis? - A Computer Scientist in a ...: Apart from copyright issues, survey papers don't really fit the mold of encyclopedia entries. Also, ideally you'd like these field descriptions to be more dynamic, such that new researchers can come in and add their work along with comments.

[Genomeweb.com] Scripps Team Demonstrates Feasibility of Unearthing Gene-Disease ...: Nigam Shah, an assistant professor at Stanford University and one of the SIG's organizers, told BioInform that despite the rise in popularity of bio-wikis in recent years, it's still difficult to get community-created annotations primarily because there simply aren’t any incentives to do it. As a result, readers far outnumber contributors.

[College] Wikis for Student Learning and Faculty Collaboration: Nancy Chick (UW-Barron County) and Jakob Iversen (UW-Oshkosh) will discuss their LTDC Curriculum Redesign Grant on using wikis in the UW System. They will give a brief demonstration of how wikis work before showing a variety of examples of how they and their grant colleagues have used wikis in their classes, as well as how wikis have supported some of their collaborative work with other faculty.

[AEJMC Hot Topics] Widgets and Wikis for the Web 2.0 Journo — AEJMC Hot Topics: As a journalism professor, all of my classes take place in computer labs. I found that each day was a fight to keep them focused, and off Facebook.

[The Record] The Record » Uncategorized lead news » Institute explores world of ...: The Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism is one of three institutes started by Goshen College President Jim Brenneman in March 2011. The other two institutes are the Institute for Ecological Regeneration, a program of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center, and the Institute for Latino Educational Achievement, a program of the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning.

[ICT4D Blog] ICTlogy » ICT4D Blog » Reconsidering Teachers' Roles (XI). Teresa ...: So, there has been a long discussion around the topic and it was not until 2010 that a legal change was made: now, teacher training consists in a 60 EC master programme, with a common structure for all disciplines and students, and a specific part depending on each one’s original discipline. The common part is made up by several subjects related to learning and personality development;

[Latino Faculty Initiative at CUNY] Outside the Bones (Novel debut) Lyn Di Iorio, Associate Professor of: Accordingly, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO RSVP simply send an email with a simple “I will attend” and your full contact information to: outsidethebones@gmail.com

[Teo-Education.Com] Teo-Education.Com » Blog Archive » Wikis in the Classroom: Three ...: I’ve long said that professors who want to explore teaching with technology should begin with a social media tool rather than a Learning Management System. Web 2.0 tools are simple to use, invite student collaboration, and are usually less administratively clunky and complex than an LMS.

[Latino Faculty Initiative at CUNY] Latino Faculty Initiative at CUNY» Blog Archive » Puerto Rican ...: Winner of the prestigious international Casa de Las Americas Prize for Insularismo e ideología burguesa (1980), he was also the recipient, in 2009, of its Premio Extraordinario de Estudios sobre los Latinos en Estados Unidosfor his collection Bugalú y otros guisos: ensayos sobre culturas Latinas en Estados Unidos. A skilled translator as well as cultural historian, whose efforts have given us an excellent English version of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s El entierro de Cortijo, the outstanding body of his own equally notable works of critical and theoretical contribution and scholarly achievement also includes the now canonic Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity (1980), From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latin Identity (2000), A Companion to Latino Studies (2007),The Diaspora Strikes Back (2009) and, with Miriam Jiménez Román, the recently published Afro-Latin@ Reader.

[Ms. Courtney's Blog] Wikis In Education « Ms. Courtney's Blog: According to Barbara Schroder, Clinical Associate Professor for the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University: “one of the strongest reasons for using a wiki is to enable collaboration. If any part of your class involves collaboration or a collaborative project, a wiki can be a valuable tool.”

[The OpenStack Blog] Happy Ada Lovelace Day » The OpenStack Blog: So on today, Ada Lovelace day, I want to ask, how can OpenStack be a welcoming community for women in technology? I have ideas and want to share them with the community.

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[#Lrnchat Blog] Transcript 6 October 2011(Early) « #Lrnchat Blog: 11:51:31 am marciamarcia: RT @LnDDave: @LisaAGoldstein @janebozarth I prefer @cammybean’s rule: “Don’t be an a-hole”. Applies to all, and takes less time to explain.

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