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There is a fascinating article at insidehighered.com on Open Source Education.  Yale, Harvard, and others — MIT started this — are offering classes for free.  Harvard is providing video lectures for free.  Read the article but also read the comments to it as well.  I really wonder how all these free courses will impact community colleges.   [...]

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Again, this is from Scott S.: 
Check this out.  It’s called Current TV.  People upload their videos (yeah, like YouTube), but then people vote and the winners are broadcast on Current TV.  And hey, they PAY for some content.  Sound like a student project?
“Think that traditional news media is missing the mark? Think you can do [...]

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Scott Swanson set this to me and I thought I’d share it with everyone. I’ve heard about this book and read a review.  Anyone care to comment on it that has actually read it?
And, yes, I realize that this is not directly ”teaching and technology” related but, from the review, it’s clear that it helps us to understand how [...]

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide   — Thanks Nancy!
http://www.pluggd.com/channel/episodes/this_week_in_tech  –Good information on all matters dealing with Podcasts. Thanks Scott.
Lori Walljasper has put together a cool CD of helpful Podcaster Tools  including such items as Audacity, iTunes, ipodder, ListGarden, Filezilla/WS-FTP-LE, Snag-IT, Camtasia, Skype, and now PowerGramo!, etc.  She will be handing those out in her session today (9-22-06) and if you [...]

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This may be overkill, but have you ever tried the OpenOffice Writer? It’s basically open-source MS Word. It is totally free. http://www.openoffice.org/
These are the components:
Write = Word
Impress= PowerPoint
Math (not in Office) = a formula generator. The math department would love that.
Draw = for flowcharts and the like
Calc = [...]

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide   — Thanks Nancy!
http://www.pluggd.com/channel/episodes/this_week_in_tech  –Good information on all matters dealing with Podcasts. Thanks Scott.
Lori Walljasper has put together a cool CD of helpful Podcaster Tools  including such items as Audacity, iTunes, ipodder, ListGarden, Filezilla/WS-FTP-LE, Snag-IT, Camtasia, Skype, and now PowerGramo!, etc.  She will be handing those out in her session today (9-22-06) and if you [...]

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We look forward to a lively discussion about the use of technology in education for the students of Eastern Iowa Community College District. The District consists of Clinton Community College, Muscatine Community College, and Scott Community College.

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