Last week, I participated in an open forum discussion with Bryan Behrenshausen from Communications and Theatre, Josh Hartranft from the Technology Support Center and Jesse Holden from Library Services. The event was planned as part of Millersville’s theme “Remix the Future, Remake Our World” and the group met to discuss the benefits and challenges of [...]
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Glogster is a free web-based application that allows users to create multimedia posters. The site is really easy to use and works incredibly well considering that it is not running off of the hard drive of a local computer. Using Glogster, students can incorporate video, audio, text and images to create a “glog.” When the [...]
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This week I’m featuring a few tools after a colleague asked me about accessibility during a Web 2.0 presentation recently. His basic question was “How can we insure that the web-based resources we use with students are not marginalizing them?” After an awkward pause, I answered, “Let me look into that.” So, after some research, [...]
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By now, most people have heard of social networking. Whether it’s the evening news with MySpace stories or you’ve been barraged with Facebook invitations, social networking is one of the real hot topics in Web 2.0. The problem, however, is that the popular social networking sites expose our students to some safety issues that concern [...]
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