Chronicle of Higher Education: Technology News
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AfterWord: Can You Measure Your Scholarship by Counting Citations?
Posted 31 January 2012 | 4:23 pm
As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact
Posted 29 January 2012 | 5:01 am
Lecture Fail?
Posted 24 January 2012 | 10:05 pm
Apple's New E-Textbook Platform Enters an Already Crowded Field
Posted 19 January 2012 | 12:30 pm
5 Universities to Test Bulk-Purchasing of E-Textbooks
Posted 18 January 2012 | 9:55 am
Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between…
interactive.usc.edu
Designed for the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, this project provides students and faculty with extensive microblogging capabilities (including the ability to embed media artifacts such as videos and images in status updates), an achievements system geared toward encouraging participation and awareness of the history and practice of interactive media-making, and a member profile infrastructure that integrates numerous social media features.
Learning by ARG: an interview with Mela Kocher Lennstroem
Mela Kocher Lennstroem is a Swiss games researcher currently living in San Diego, where she conducts post-doctoral research on “the blurring of reality and fiction in digital media, especially in ARGs.”
ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools, and beyond
This resource contains examples of alternate reality games (ARGs) created for museums, libraries, schools, and government agencies. Also included are links to related resources, designers, observers, and policy-makers.
Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings
Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature.
School For Corn
The school is set up on ten tabletops with different learning stations, with the corn seeds learning through…