Making international academic spaces international
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by Maha Bali
3y ago
This article was co-authored by Maha Bali (Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning & Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt @bali_maha), Catherine Cronin (Strategic Education Developer at the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Ireland @catherinecronin), Laura Czerniewicz (Director of Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town, South Africa @czernie), and Tannis Morgan (Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Innovationat the Justice Institute of British Columbia, Canada ..read more
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New from Zotero: Google Docs and Barcode Scanning
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by Lee Skallerup Bessette
3y ago
Having watched and tested the development of Zotero+Google Docs all along, there’s really no way to describe it as anything other than “pure magic.” https://t.co/aAeREevKQm — Sean Takats (@stakats) October 19, 2018 That’s right. Our favorite citation and research organization tool now integrates into Google Docs. With a click of a button, put the correctly formatted citation right where you want or need it. Now, just one person doesn’t have to be responsible for Works Cited on a collaborative document easily! And, if you are using a device with iOS, you can now add books to your Zotero libra ..read more
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Teacher-Student Co-Design for Campus-wide Challenges
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by Maha Bali
3y ago
Maha co-authored this post with Ayah Elewa, Electronics Engineering graduate from the American University in Cairo (student in Maha’s class and Student Technology Assistant at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the time of the experience discussed below). She blogs at http://writefullyayah.wordpress.com and tweets as @AyaH_Egypt. In February 2018, the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) ran a Student-Faculty Co-Design session as part of a 15-year anniversary event for CLT. The idea for the session came from several brainstorming sessions conduc ..read more
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Weekend Reading: Daylight Saving Time Ends, Just Like Everything Else But Especially Free Flickr Edition
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by jbj
3y ago
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if you were once a cool web service and had anything to do with Yahoo, it was secretly your ruin. Pour one out for Del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes, (arguably) Tumblr, and now Flickr. To be fair, Yahoo sold Flickr a while back, but not before doing their patented make-it-worse thing. (The details are here: The current free plan is being dramatically reduced, and photos for non-paying users with more than 1000 pictures will start being deleted in the new year.) With this move, one of the main sources of Creative Commons-licensed images will become that much ..read more
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NERCOMP Event on ‘EDU-Hacking’
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by jbj
3y ago
If you live within range of NERCOMP (The NorthEast Regional Computing Program), then you might be interested a professional development event on November 13: “EDU-Hacking: Using the Tools and Tactics We Have to Address Our Challenges”. Here’s the description: Folks at the intersection of technology, teaching, and learning have many aspirations but rarely the budget to go with it. Therefore, to stay relevant, accessible, and engaged in a digital learning, we often find different shortcuts, hacks, and strategies to address the problems we face. Inevitably, this takes different shapes at differ ..read more
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All Things Google: Using FormLimiter
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by Amy Cavender
3y ago
  Many of us here at ProfHacker are heavy users of Google Apps. As usual, I’ve been running my own course sites this semester (using Jekyll and GitHub Pages this time around). I continue to collect student work using Google Forms, which enables me to do paperless grading. What’s new for me this semester is that I’ve introduced online quizzes using Google Forms. The ability to create auto-grading quizzes in Google Forms isn’t new, of course. Neither, as it turns out, is the add-on from CloudLab that I recently discovered, FormLimiter (comments on the add on’s page in the Chrome Web Store i ..read more
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Editing Your Own Writing
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by Lee Skallerup Bessette
3y ago
I am currently editing a manuscript of mine. I have never been good at editing my own writing, ever, as you can probably tell from all of the typos, sentence fragments, and run-ons in my blog posts. I enjoy vomiting words and then hitting publish, just because I don’t want to edit them. It brings me absolutely no joy. Of course, as the stakes get higher, I want my writing to not just be good enough, but potentially great. Or maybe I’m just getting older, I don’t know. So I did what I have always done: I started to buy books. I picked up Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, which I hated, and then ..read more
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What Do Students Think about Technology?
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by jbj
3y ago
Last week Educause released the 2018 Students and Technology Research Study, along with a not-quite-convenient for printing infographic. Contrary to dated stereotypes about faculty being reluctant to use technology, the survey shows that “the majority told us instructors use tech to engage them in the learning process and enhance their learning with additional materials. Nearly half of students also agreed that their instructors encourage them to use technology for creative or critical-thinking tasks.” Students were pretty split over whether they were allowed to use their own devices–particul ..read more
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Inching Closer . . .
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by jbj
3y ago
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