It is showcase season! Last week, students from across the campus presented their ePortfolios as part of BCC’s Office of Instructional Technology ePortfolio Showcase. The event gave students who have done really great ePortfolio work a chance to show their peers and other instructors the value that ePortfolios have had for their education at BCC. […]

Eric Frank, President of  FlatWorld Knowledge , spoke today in the BCC English Department meeting and showcased the work they are doing around open textbooks. This is something that is gaining ground at BCC, as our very own  Susan Amper described in a recent post . photo © 2010 opensource.com | more info (via: Wylio) He explained how […]

photo © 2009 Justin See (coming back) | more info (via: Wylio)Was there some official decree to make this week about efficiency? Many of my usual blog-reads were offering up tips on time management. Maybe it’s the spring-thaw meets almost-middle-of-the-semester-freak-out meets just-far-enough-from-january-to-still-try-your-resolution-before-giving-up? Either way, here’s what folks were saying: First up, Google has launched a new labs feature called “Smart Labels” […]

As part of the Title V work going on at BCC , Professor Kenya Harris and the team of nursing instructors are making use of VoiceThread, Twitter and a number of other Web 2.0 tools to make their courses more interactive. The results are really impressive. In a recently published article, Prof. Harris reports an improvement in pass rate of 30% […]

In this week’s roundup I focus on the idea of collaboration, since there seemed to be a number of intriguing posts on the Edublogs… Mashable brings us a really excellent and thorough post about  Facebook’s Growing Role in Social Journalism . The article considers how major news sources, such as NPR, have begun using to solicit sources for […]

photo © 2009 Nationaal Archief | more info (via: Wylio)A useful post at ProfHacker outlines an interesting way to  “Avoid ‘Grading Jail’ through Course Writing Contracts”  in which students create their own due-dates and these serve as binding contracts. The papers trickle in throughout the semester and you’re faced with a little bit of reviewing/grading per day than a whole stack a […]

I’ve been slowly building a set of links, resources and questions in an Evernote note tentatively titled “Twitter and Engagement in the Classroom.” But this recent post on Cac.ophony —  Saign flls aftr US wthdrwl OMFG  — inspired me to sort through them and develop a post on the current pedagogical promise (and potential pitfalls, to stick with […]