Tag Archives: edtech

TWEP

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Rappold has posted the first episode of The Web Edtech Podcast.  The topic is Learning Management Systems.  You should recognize a couple of the people participating.

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Edmodo

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

It’s going to be twitter for educators, or so they say. http://www.edmodo.com See the screen shot here.

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Techno-Cheating

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Last week we had two speakers on campus that both addressed academic dishonesty and technology’s role in cheating. Most of the examples were what I would consider low-tech because they involved nothing more than a scanner, Photoshop and a color … Continue reading →

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Domain name by any other name

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

There was a time when the web wasn’t the only game in town.  There were just as many Gopher, FTP and News (NNTP) sites as there were web sites.  To distinguish web pages from other technologies, the familiar “www” was added … Continue reading →

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Use Common Sense

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

The Christian Science Monitor has an article about teachers striking back against student online activities.  Cyberbullying has received a lot of attention recently, but most of it has focused on student-student incidents.  Not only are students attacking each other, many … Continue reading →

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