CIT Infobits -- September 2005
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CIT INFOBITS September 2005 No. 87 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources that come to
her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.
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Papers on the University and the Internet
Academic Commons
More on Games as Learning Tools
Videoblogging Primer
Bookseller Turns Publisher
Recommended Reading
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PAPERS ON THE UNIVERSITY AND THE INTERNET
EDUCAUSE is making available online, at no cost, THE INTERNET AND THE
UNIVERSITY: FORUM 2004. The book is a collection of papers from the
Forum's 2004 Aspen Symposium. The papers cover three areas: technology
and globalization, technology and scholarship, and technology and the
brain. The book is available in PDF format at
http://www.educause.edu/apps/forum/iuf04.asp.
The Forum on the Internet and the University "seeks to understand how
the Internet and new learning media can improve the quality and
condition of learning, as well as the opportunities and risks created
by rapid technological innovation and economic change."
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher
education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges,
universities, and educational organizations, including 200
corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in
Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at
http://www.educause.edu/.
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ACADEMIC COMMONS
In August the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College
launched the Academic Commons -- a website offering "a forum for
investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal
arts education." In addition to publishing essays and reviews and
showcasing innovative projects, the site also offers the Developer's
Kit, an area for sharing project descriptions and pieces of code, and
LoLa Exchange, which shares high-quality learning objects. The Academic
Commons is available at http://www.academiccommons.org/.
The mission of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash
College is "to explore, test, and promote liberal arts education . . .
[and] to ensure that the nature and value of liberal arts education is
widely understood and to reestablish the central place of the liberal
arts in higher education." For more information about the Center:
email: liberalarts@xxxxxxxxxx; Web: http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/.
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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE AND OPEN SOURCE EXPLAINED
How much do you understand about what you can download
and use in the classroom. Do you know what fair use is?
Find out the issues, ethics and proceedures
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MORE ON GAMES AS LEARNING TOOLS
The July 2005 issue of CIT Infobits presented a roundup of articles on
computer games as learning tools ("Games Children Play,"
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitjul05.html#4). For more on this
topic, see the special issue of INNOVATE (vol. 1, issue 6,
August/September 2005) which is devoted to the "role of video game
technology in current and future educational settings." Papers include:
"What Would a State of the Art Instructional Video Game Look Like?" by
J. P. Gee, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
"Changing the Game: What Happens When Video Games Enter the Classroom?"
by Kurt Squire, Assistant Professor of Educational Technology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Game-Informed Learning: Applying Computer Game Processes to Higher
Education" by Michael Begg, David Dewhurst, and Hamish Macleod,
University of Edinburgh
The entire issue is available online at
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&id=9. You may need
to register on the Innovate website to access papers; there is no
charge for registration and access.
Innovate [ISSN 1552-3233] is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online
periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human
Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the
creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational
processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Readers can
comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and
participate in open forums. For more information, contact James L.
Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate; email: innovate@xxxxxxxx; Web:
http://www.innovateonline.info/.
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VIDEOBLOGGING PRIMER
The next development in blogging -- videoblogs or vlogs -- incorporates
video images captured by digital cameras or camera-equipped cell
phones. What implications does this type of content on education? Read
"7 Things You Should Know about . . . Videoblogging" to get a quick
overview of what videoblogging is, who's using it in higher education,
why it's significant, and what are the downsides. The paper is
available online at no cost at
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7005.pdf.
EDUCAUSE publishes the "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." series on
a variety of emerging learning practices and technologies. To read
other papers in the series, go to
http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495.
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Podcasts, Blogs, webcasts, audiocasts, audioblog,
RSS, wiki, smart mob, folksonomy videoblogs, feeds,
aggregators,push, and rss.
Get the low down on what all this actually is:
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html
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BOOKSELLER TURNS PUBLISHER
As the costs of individual papers in course packs seems to rise each
semester, it will be interesting to see how Amazon's new "Amazon
Shorts" venture fares. The bookseller's new online publishing project
delivers short stories and essays by well-know authors to readers for
$0.49 each. And purchasers can save and print the pieces "forever."
Categories include biography and memoirs, fiction, mystery and
thrillers, nonfiction, science, and science fiction and fantasy. While
the selection is limited for now, if Amazon Shorts is successful, it
could provide an inexpensive way to augment course materials. For more
details, go to http://www.amazon.com/shorts/.
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More Ways to put it up there and sell it yourself
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/selfpublish.asp
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@xxxxxxx for
possible inclusion in this column.
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
By Rich Ling
Morgan Kaufmann, 2004
ISBN: 1558609369
"Although people complain of the mobile phone's intrusion into polite
society, there are many other aspects to this phenomenon. We rely on
the mobile telephone. It helps us coordinate our lives while on the
run; it provides us with a sense of safety and gives us accessibility
to others. We personalize the device, and in doing so we make a
statement as to who we are and how we want to be seen. It is also worth
noting that this transition has come quite quickly. A decade ago the
mobile telephone was the symbol of yuppies, not teens. Now it has
nudged and pushed its way into our everyday lives in new ways. The rise
of mobile, push to talk, multimedia messages and various handheld
computing devices will add a new twist to all this."
The book's Introduction is available online, courtesy of Ubiquity (vol.
6, issue 33, September 13-20, 2005), at
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i33_ling.html.
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