Adopt This Technology! - An Online Egg Timer for In-Class Activities and Presentations!

Readers,

As a speech teacher, I always have a timer in my briefcase. Sometimes the timer becomes a distraction because it constantly beeps as I walk across campus. To solve this small problem and to help me reach my time management goals for 2011, I plan to use the Online Egg Timer. This awesome program enables users to have THREE timers running at one time! Amazing! My regular kitchen timer only has TWO timers.

Here are five ways to use this program:

1. Timing in-class group activities on the data projector.

2. Grading papers in 30 minute segments (first timer) and then allowing yourself to have a five minute break (second timer).

3. Timing student speeches and the time between the speeches.

4. Hosting in-class consultation sessions with students (about their papers or presentations) and limiting the consultation sessions to only five to seven minutes per paper.

5. Giving the students a one-minute mental break in class.

I hope these ideas help you! Let me know if you have any additional ideas and I will add them to the list!

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Twitter and the TRUE Demographics - 8% of Online Americans Use Twitter (Pew Research Center)

Readers,

Recently, the Pew Internet and American Life Project (A Project of the Pew Research Center), released a report titled, "8% of Online Americans Use Twitter". More women than men use twitter and more 18-29 year olds use Twitter more than any subsequent age group, and most of live in urban environments. Here's the surprising part, most of the Twitter users are minorities (Black and Hispanic) and most of the users make less than $30,000 and between $50,000 and $74,999.

I wonder how many professors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) AND Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) use Twitter in their classrooms.

Here's the link to the report - 8% of Online Americans Use Twitter.

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

#EDUSOCMEDIA - A Neat Resource for Higher Education Faculty and Technology Professionals...

Readers,

Today, I found such an incredible resource titled "#EDUSOCMEDIA: The Social Media Resource for Higher Ed". This resource actually emerged through my numerous daily alerts from "Google Alerts" (which is another incredible resource).

This website features a twitter feed, videos, a wiki, and various additional resources. In fact, Pretty neat! This website was created as a Twitter hashtag resource for last year's EDUCAUSE conference, but it was so great that the authors decided to keep the resource updated and available after the conference. Here's a sample post, "The Five Considerations of Social Media" - http://www.edusocmedia.org/2010/10/the-five-considerations/"


After viewing each of the website's resources, I became very excited about submitting my first proposal to EDUCAUSE 2011. I hope that my proposal will be accepted... I love Ed Tech/Comm. Tech!

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Tech Tips for Educators - UW Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University

Readers,

Today, I discovered the "Millennial Professor" blog was selected as one of the "Top 8 Education Blogs to Inspire and Inform" by the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Here's the link to their top picks - LINK. In addition to this blog, one of my friends' blogs, "Communication and Higher Education: Life on the Tenure-Track at a Teaching Institution", was also selected as a top blog. Dr. Lora Helvie-Mason from Southern University New Orleans writes about her celebrations and trials on the tenure track.

Yay! Thank you Ms. Karen Franker from the University of Wisconsin-Stout! I appreciate you!

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.