Print education can lead the way

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Comment by Katherine (Katie) Gekker on April 29, 2009 at 7:10pm

From Paul Vadeboncoeur, a work around so you can show You Tube videos in your classroom:

I found a way to watch You Tube Videos bypassing school blocked filters.

www.yourtube.us

This takes you to a separate web site where you can enter You Tube in the browse field and it will bypass filters.
That way we can show students "viable and appropriate" You Tube videos.
(at least it works until they block this site, which will probably happen as soon as they find out about it.)

Comment by Katherine (Katie) Gekker on April 16, 2009 at 2:32pm

An excellent program for teachers offered July 13 - 17, 2009. Applications due 424!!!

http://www.gain.net/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=EventInfo&action=add&Reg_evt_key=1eae18b1-f689-49d3-949d-58798f1113df&Paying=NoFees
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Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 9, 2008 at 7:34pm

I found this one about rethinking the way curriculum is handled. I have a feeling sutff like this is going to be much more to point as budgets get squeezed. It doesn't directly apply to Print technology, but it is thought provoking :
the link:
an excerpt:
In designing the Math Emporium, Williams started by rethinking the issue of space. Campus space is inevitably a scarce resource, subject to bloody administrative battles between professors and departments. But all Williams needed was someplace cheap that students could get to easily, with enough room for hundreds of computers and little else. He also wanted space that other academic departments wouldn’t want to steal. So he leased the vacant former home of Rose’s Department Store, a now-bankrupt regional discount chain, for the bargain price of three dollars per square foot.

Then Williams rethought the student learning experience from the ground up. Undergraduate education, particularly at big state universities, is often passive and regimented. Students sit and receive information in the form of lectures that occur at a time and place of someone else’s choosing. The Math Emporium courses that Williams designed—there are currently nine—work in a very different way. Each course is broken up into a series of "modules," available on Emporium computers or the Internet, that students are required to complete within a certain amount of time. Each module outlines a specific set of mathematic principles and concepts. These are translated into specific examples to review and problems to solve.

Comment by Brian Regan on December 8, 2008 at 3:42pm

Michael you can post these on the video area of this site as well

http://graphcommnet.ning.com/video

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 8, 2008 at 3:26pm

This one is the best thing I've ever seen to explain what is happening in the world of information... A:

In the interests of shameless self promotion, you can find a bunch more at my website/blog.

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 8, 2008 at 3:15pm

So...here's what I sort of mean about who History could be taught through the lens of Print...

Comment by Brian Regan on December 8, 2008 at 3:00pm

Hmmmm, me thinks this site could also be a tech support/ideas sort of resource as well....

Comment by Katherine (Katie) Gekker on December 8, 2008 at 2:57pm

Thank you all!

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 8, 2008 at 2:07pm

just wanted to share what I looked at for my first three years in the biz...

Comment by Michael Josefowicz on December 8, 2008 at 1:41pm

curious if that works..

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