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Smarthistory joins Khan Academy
Big news today in the field of Open Educational Resources! I’ve posted before about my admiration for smarthistory.org (and I do have a personal connection!). Today the news is out that they have joined forces with the Khan Academy. Two fantastic OERs are now working together, and the world of open learning, available to all, […]
Macaulay Eportfolio Documentation
I’ve been getting some inquiries, and it’s been a while since I last described our eportfolio setup, so I thought I might put it all in a post instead of copying and pasting into various emails. Server We host our eportfolios on an external server. It’s a dedicated server, all ours–but it’s the same server […]
Eportfolios to change Assessment
Our motto for our eportfolios at Macaulay (one of our mottoes–I tend to proliferate mottoes) is “Collect, Reflect, Present.” That spells out (not necessarily in order of priority) what I thought students would be doing with eportfolios, and those goals, from the beginning, have shaped the choices in building our platform. But there is another […]
The Macaulay Eportfolio Expo
At Macaulay, for a wide range of reasons (some of which I described back when we first got started), our eportfolio system has always been what I like to think of as “organically” growing. Our students build eportfolios because they want to, and develop them when they feel the need to, and (except for the […]
Support an Open Educational Resource
My own favorite Open Educational Resource is the webby- award- winning smarthistory.org (full disclosure– I do have a personal connection to the site and one of the founders!). It’s a perfect example of what the future of the textbook can look like–embodying conversation, multiple media, a student-centered approach to learning, contextualized knowledge, active engagement, interdisciplinary […]
Another in the Long List of Reasons Student Projects Should be Public
Something interesting happened last week. I got a phone call from a gentleman who is involved in an organization of families and descendants of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Since the 100th anniversary of the fire is coming up this year, the family members are coming together to organize memorial events and information […]
WordCamp NYC 2010
It’s that time of year again, and I’m proud to be joining my fellow WordPressHeads at Baruch this weekend!
A Couple of Presentations
I’ve been invited to talk about Macaulay’s eportfolios (from different perspectives) at two upcoming conferences. The first one is coming up soon (next week), in Delhi, NY. SUNY Delhi’s annual 2-3-98 Conference is focused this year on “Technology During an Economic Crisis, The Benefits of Open Sourcing.” So that’s a talk mainly about the financial […]
Three New Plugins for Teaching with WordPress
Thanks to our great Macaulay ITF Michael Porter, there are three new plugins in the WordPress plugin repository which will be fantastic for anyone using WordPress as a platform for teaching (and in the case of the third of them, eportfolios!). Mike developed these specifically for needs we had discovered at Macaulay, but I think […]
AAEEBL Conference Thoughts (mine and others)
I’ve just returned from a good few days at the AAEEBL Conference in Boston (with lots of CUNY colleagues). There are some good write-ups of some of the sessions on the eportfolios blog here at the Commons, and while of course there were ups and downs, as there are at any conference, I think it […]
