About Me
Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College. This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 tools as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.
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The Promise and Practice of Blended Learning – Plenary Presentation
Presented by: Joel Hartman – Vice Provost for Information Technologies & Resources – University of Central Florida (I’ll update this with a link to his presentation slides as soon as it’s posted) Joel began by reminding us that chalk, paper, … Continue reading
Presenting today at the Sloan C Blended Learning Conference in Chicago
I’m c0-presenting with Carolyn Kraut (BGSU) on Social Networking in blended learning. Check out our Prezi presentation for it: Social Networking: Distraction or Teacher’s Best Weapon? on Prezi Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it … Continue reading
Google Docs update brings Drawing, real-time collaboration
Google, on the new real-time document editor: “We’ve brought the responsive, real-time editing experience you’ve come to expect from our spreadsheets over to documents, which means you can now see character-by-character changes as other collaborators make edits. We also added … Continue reading
Engadget: “Adobe says iPhone / iPad adoption and ‘alternative technologies’ (cough, HTML5) could harm its business”
Via Engadget: Adobe might continue to crow about Flash and its importance on both the desktop and mobile devices, but there’s no lying to investors, and the company is pretty blunt about the threat of the iPhone and iPad in … Continue reading
iPhone OS 4 Unveiled
Apple held a media event today to unveil iPhone OS 4.0. (You can read a nice summary of the new features at a page Apple set up for it). I won’t repeat everything from the announcements or explain every new … Continue reading