Flametoad

Facebook Came to this session a bit late since I was posting my last set of notes. This is a packed room. People are standing around the door. I just lucked out and was able to grab a chair from someone who left.  Universities are starting to use the Facebook API to add their own [...]

We Don’t Make the Rules: Developing User-centered Tutorial for First Year Students Academic integrity – Miami University committee came up with a report w/12 recommendations. It was determined that there needed to be instruction in incoming freshmen, but there was no time in the student schedule to add yet another course just for AI. So [...]

Big trends Connected (“live”) Interactive/engaging Sharing/social –but key is context. Good sites add context to the above elements. The better the social context, the higher the value. Personal outcomes should be more important than the individual web trends. Conent in iTunes U has doubled in the last 30 days. One middle school already has their [...]

Here’s a little bit of insight into my professional life–that is, the other, non-publishing professional life. For the next few days I’m at a conference for Higher Education web developers and I’ll be blogging my session notes for my colleagues back home.   Travel/pre-conference Looong day of travel. The alarm reeled me out of bed [...]