Posts Tagged ‘education’

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by Leena Rao on March 24, 2009

When Richard Ludlow was struggling in a linear algebra class at Yale, he scoured the internet for answers and stumbled upon a full video course available online from one of MIT’s mathematics professors, Gilbert Strang. He realized that there was an opportunity to create an [...]

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by Alana Taylor, November 5, 2008

The idea for NYU Local, the newest addition to New York University’s list of publications, was born last year when founder and editor Cody Brown, 20, came up with the idea for a survey to be conducted by the Foundations of Journalism class. The survey question asked [...]

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by Alfred Hermida, October 27, 2008

Multimedia journalism is one of those terms often used to refer to a wide range of online content. Recently, I began a discussion with my students at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism to define exactly what the term means and how we can harness the many forms [...]

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By John Biggs
October 21st, 2008
Well here’s the first multi-touch, multi-user device for teaching early childhood skills. Like the surface, you can drag things around the surface and play word and picture games with multiple people just by dragging images around the screen.
The table launches on Thursday and will cost an actually amazingly inexpensive [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 21, 2008

If high-school education is failing in the U.S., maybe Web video can help. Founded last April, Brightstorm is a Web video site that brings bright, talented teachers together with students who need some extra help. Backed by Korea’s KTB Ventures, which invested the entire $6 million [...]

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October 21, 2008 - 3:00 am PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta 1 Comment

BrightStorm has launched a new online learning network for teenagers with video-based courses lead by experienced instructors. The concept is rather clever as they use the tools that teens use everyday such as online videos to [...]

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by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, October 15, 2008
It’s not just students who can get into difficulty for school-related blogging.
In a recent case, a federal court rejected a challenge brought by a non-tenured teacher when the public school at which he taught decided not to renew his contract. The school had accused the teacher of overly familiar [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: October 13, 2008 - 01:19PM CT

The governmental sales branch of the giant technology vendor CDW apparently got interested in how its wares were being deployed in the classrooms of US college campuses. To find out, it commissioned an online survey that pulled in roughly similar numbers of students, faculty, and [...]

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October 1, 2008 - 9:30 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
The buzz has more or less died down, at least in the pages ofGawker, MediaShift, TechDirt and Romenesko. But our very ownAlana Taylor did a feature for PBS blog MediaShift, a commentary really, on the lack of New Media savvy amongst the students and faculty at NYU in a class called [...]