A Great Opportunity! - Sign Up for the Next Generation Learning Challenges's Learning Summer Learning Webinar Series

Readers,


Here's a great online seminar opportunity for all of you! As part of Next Generation Learning Challenges's "Summer Learning Series", these webinars are focused on the amazing role that technology can have in the classroom environment. Each of the webinars will be held in the NGLC Adobe Connect webconferencing room.


Topic: Blended Learning at the University of Central Florida
Speaker: Thomas Cavanaugh, Assistant Vice President, Distributed Learning
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET

Topic: The Gamification of Education
Speakers: Steve Ritter, Carnegie Learning; Chris Sprague, OpenStudy; and David Gibson, SimSchool
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET

Topic: The Open Learning Initiative
Speaker: Candace Thille, Director, Open Learning Initiative
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET

Topic: Using Openness to Bridge to Success
Speaker: Patrick McAndrew, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET


Enjoy!


Sincerely,


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

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E-Books and Education - Rules from the U.S. Department of Education

Readers,


Recently, the United States Department of Education issued new rules on e-reader technologies for higher education institutions -  

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf

Does your institution require students to use e-readers? It will be interesting to see how these rules affect K-12 schools, many of which are phasing out textbooks in their classrooms.

Sincerely,

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

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Freebie Friday - Free Self-Paced Online Classes from HP and Microsoft

Readers,

Are you looking for a few, free self-paced online classes to help you learn how to use HP software or Microsoft products? Well, check out these links to free online classes available from HP and Microsoft! 

The HP classes include: digital photography, home office, MS Office and Adobe Products, PC security and maintenance.

The Microsoft courses include Access, Excel, Outlook, Word and more. There are classes for both the 2003, 2007 and 2010 versions of this software.

Thank You Freebie Blogger!

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

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Adopt This Technology: The NEW Google Calendar

Readers,

I admit, I am a Google Calendar addict. My life operates from two Google Calendars, my personal calendar and my husband's work/school calendar. Through Google Calendar, I am able to view any gaps or overlaps on the calendar well in advance of the event.

Yes, I also admit that I plan my life at least six to eight months in advance. When someone asks me if I can meet on a certain day, I can tell them with a high level of certainty whether I will or will not be able to meet on a particular day.

Here are some ways that I use Google Calendar:

- Publication Deadlines: I add the publication deadline to the calendar and then I use the reminders feature to send an e-mail to myself when the deadline is three and two weeks away.

- Collaboration Opportunities and Meetings: When I need to work with others on a project and/or publication, I add all of their e-mail addresses to the calendar event and we are able to keep ourselves accountable during this time period.

- Task List: I use the task feature to organize my tasks by the day the tasks are due. For example, if I need to open a Blackboard test for a student tomorrow, I add this "task" on my list on tomorrow's date. Not only does this task appear on my calendar, but it also appears on my Gmail account task list. I can print this task list OR I can glance at this task list on my iPad between classes.


- Embedding the Calendar on a Website: This year, we embedded the Google Calendar on our Environmental Communication Week website. This was very neat for the Google users, because they could just add the events to their personal calendars.


Here's a recent post from Prof Hacker about the new features on Google Calendar - LINK.

Here are some of the new Google Calendar features - LINK.

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

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