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- Focus Areas
The EdTech Center has conducted research and development related to the five focus areas for several years. EdTech staff have the programming, multimedia, Web design and development, and... - Social Networks and Media Sharing
The concept of anytime, anywhere learning is not new to the majority of Northeastern University students. With personal websites, multi-functional cell phones, MP3 players, YouTube accounts, Facebook...
How Do I... Tutorials
- Slideshare
Slideshare is a free, online service that makes it easy to share presentations and documents. Users can upload PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF and Open Office files to Slideshare and then allow other users... - Build your personal learning network with Twitter, Ning and Delicious
A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information. As web applications have become more robust, your PLN can easily grow using tools like...
Links
- Researcher finds “network privacy” an online oxymoron
Alan Mislove is investigating how data on social networks can be used, and possibly, manipulated. - Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
"Opening up a Twitter-powered channel in class—which several professors at other universities are experimenting with as well—alters classroom power dynamics and signals to... - VoxOx
"The best definition of VoxOx that I have seen is “Skype on steroids” because that is exactly what VoxOx is. Like Skpe, VoxOx offers free VOIP services to its members when you are...
Events
- Tech Trends For Teaching Day 2010!
Thu, March 11, 9:00 - 3:00
Join the EdTech Center, ATS/IS and the Snell Library's Digital Media Design Studio for a day of Tech Trends for Teaching. See short demos of current trends in technology and find out how to get... - Connecting Your Classroom with Facebook
Tue, November 14, 12:00 - 1:30
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools and colleges. It receives 250 million hits per day and is ranked ninth in overall...
Columns
- Social Networking Tools Highlighted at Teaching with Technology Day: Knowledge Sharing and Creation
March 2007
Northeastern faculty are using social networking tools to engage students in learning and facilitate collaboration among their colleagues. Educational uses for social networking tools are on the rise, and a number of Northeastern faculty members are making use of them to teach their students.
News
- Interactive Course Development Project
January 2010
Opportunity to receive digital recorder or camera for participating!
Attend one of our demonstrations and submit a RFP for a project or student assignment. If your project is approved, you will receive a digital camera or voice recorder to develop it.
Demonstrations
- Rich Media Sharing and Integration (Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare)
College and high-school students regularly share audio and video via the Web. Sites like flikr and YouTube allow users, in a few clicks, to easily post and share media files. This demonstration will...
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Theatre Department
The study of theatre is a fusion of performance, visual expression, design, text, theory, and history balancing production theory and practice. In the theatre production laboratory, students are involved in experiential learning that synthesizes... Read more...
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