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• ► 2013 (22)
  • ► May (5)
    • Andreas Brockhaus, Joe Shelley and Ian Porter Awarded Worthington Innovation Fellows Award
    • Introducing the Learning Technologies Video Tutorial Library
    • Digital Scholarship at UW Bothell
    • ePortfolio Resources at UW Bothell
    • Conversations on Hybrid Teaching and Learning at UW Bothell
  • ► April (4)
    • UWB LT Blog Included as a Leading IT Site to Watch in 2013 by TechnologySchools.org
    • A Roadblock for Online STEM Classes?
    • Teaching and Learning with Technology
    • Students Test Their Skills and Stamina against the Clock
  • ► March (7)
    • How Different Students Adapt to Online Learning
    • Information on FREE Online Courses
    • Thomas L. Friedman and MOOCs
    • Canvas, Plain and Simple: What UW Bothell Faculty Need To Know To Prepare for Summer 2013
    • Teaching Hybrid at UW Bothell
    • Five Techniques for Better Digital Storytelling
    • Uploading Media Files into Tegrity
  • ► February (1)
    • Two Big Issues with Online Learning
  • ► January (5)
    • Time to Catch Up: The "Technology" Policy
    • 50 Education Tools for Tech-Savvy Teachers
    • Udacity Partners With San Jose SU for an Exciting MOOC Pilot
    • Examining the Future of Public Higher Education: The Pros and Cons of Online, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face Class Formats
    • Digital Media at The University of Washington Bothell
• ► 2012 (66)
  • ► December (2)
    • Majority of Students and Instructors at the UW found Tegrity Lecture Capture to be Useful
    • iPads in the Classroom
  • ► November (7)
    • Gates Foundation announces it will fund MOOC research project at Maryland universities
    • Welcome, Sara Frizelle and Salem Levesque!
    • Creative Uses of Google Apps for Teaching and Learning
    • Sharing Media Files in Canvas
    • Five Things You Should Know About... Hybrid Learning at UW Bothell
    • Commenting on student papers made easy in Canvas
    • Transitioning from Blackboard to Canvas
  • ► October (1)
    • How would you change higher education?
  • ► September (2)
    • Learning Analytics Infographic
    • Video Clip Use "Decision Tree"
  • ► August (6)
    • Prezi Adds New Features
    • Back-to-School Apps for Instructors and Students
    • SkilledUp: The Search Engine for Online Courses
    • What is a MOOC?
    • Amazon Now Offers Textbook Rental Service
    • Lessons Learned from Lecture Capture
  • ► July (5)
    • EdTech Cheat Sheet
    • Preventing Plagiarism in Online Learning
    • UW, other universities, join Coursera to offer Free and Low-Cost Online Courses
    • UW to begin Campus-Wide Rollout of Canvas LMS
    • Annotated PowerPoint Presentations with a Wacom Tablet and Tegrity
  • ► June (10)
    • Tips & Tricks for Your Google Search
    • EdTech Magazine Interviews Director of UWBLT, Andreas Brockhaus
    • How Design and Implementation of Distance Ed Courses Impact Learning
    • Media & Communication Students' Projects are Great Examples of Blogs/Sites in Education
    • Free Software for UW Faculty & Students!
    • Immune Attack Review
    • Coursera & New Open Education
    • Teaching and Learning with Video Games
    • Better Student Access To Technology Means Better Student Writers
    • iPad + Dropbox + Airsketch = Cheap & Easy Interactive Whiteboard
  • ► May (10)
    • Effective Classroom Discussions
    • Open Courses Give Students Educational Options
    • Tegrity User Conference Sessions Now Online
    • Establishing a Team Contract
    • UWB LT Blog Included as a "Must-Read" by EdTech Magazine
    • Journaling in Blackboard: Reflect On And Deepen Learning
    • Students Like Short, Compelling Tegrity Videos, According To Athens State Professor
    • Get Organized With Free Web Tools!
    • DML Update for Spring 2012
    • Forget 'Lecture,' Tegrity Transcends The 'Sage On The Stage'
  • ► April (3)
    • Stanford School of Engineering Opens Online Courses
    • Introducing Google Drive
    • Bookshare: An Online Library for the Print Impaired
  • ► March (6)
    • An Introduction to UW Blogs
    • A Look at One of Singapore's "Future Schools"
    • TED launches TED-Ed
    • ViDA gives students access to UW software 24/7
    • Smartphones as Learning Tools
    • Improve Student Learning by 'Flipping' the Classroom
  • ► February (10)
    • Photoshop App Now Available
    • Smart Classroom Strategies: Getting Faculty Involved
    • MITx Opens Registration for its First Course
    • Do we always work better in groups?
    • Digital Media Lab: A Media Oasis
    • Developing Effective Learning Goals for Hybrid and Face-to-Face Classes
    • Blackboard 9.1 Close Up: Plagiarism Prevention using SafeAssign
    • Student Perspectives: ePortfolios
    • UW Bothell Faculty Members Experiment with Tegrity
    • New UW Wordpress Blogs for Faculty and Staff
  • ► January (4)
    • Making Lectures Effective
    • In Case You Missed It: Major eTextbook Announcement by Apple
    • Make 2012 the year you learn code!
    • DC1 Final Projects: Fantastic UWB Student Work!
• ► 2011 (75)
  • ► December (2)
    • Successfully Using Lecture Capture
    • Students & Faculty at UWB Develop Kinect as a Teaching Tool
  • ► November (7)
    • The MERLOT Pedagogy Portal
    • Where are students getting their plagiarized content?
    • Capturing Lectures for Student Learning with Tegrity
    • Using Clickers to Enhance Student Learning
    • Blackboard Upgrade Coming in Spring
    • Learning to Go Hybrid
    • Collaborate in the Learning Technologies Studio
  • ► October (2)
    • The iPads in Arts and Sciences Blog
    • Google Apps and Tools meet Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
  • ► September (3)
    • YouTube Launches New Site for Teachers
    • Tips for Effectively Teaching with Your Multimedia Presentation
    • Bryn Mawr College Explores Online Learning
  • ► August (5)
    • Chronicle of Higher Ed: Students Assess Their Professors’ Technology Skills
    • New Tools for Comparing Textbooks of All Formats
    • Amazon Releases Kindle Cloud Reader
    • Spatial Humanities Give Scholars a Deeper Understanding of the Past
    • Google Presentation Archive from ISTE 2011
  • ► July (6)
    • Diigo Introduces New iPad Reading Tool
    • LMS Trends & Predictions
    • Historypin Lets You Search and Pin Historical Photos
    • Google Plus in the Classroom
    • "Think m.college.edu, Not iCollege"
    • The Digital Humanities
  • ► June (7)
    • LT Site Analytics: May 2011
    • Evernote Releases New iPad 2 App
    • Student videos from UWB's Computing Technology & Public Policy classes
    • Lecture Capturing in the Courtroom
    • UW Set Design Students Skype with a Playwright
    • A Peek at the Future of Digital Books?
    • The Move to Digital Dissection
  • ► May (11)
    • Legal Considerations While Using Web 2.0 Tools
    • Free Technology for Group Projects
    • ELI 2011 Annual Meeting
    • Infographic: Open Source Textbooks
    • Preventing Cheating in Distance Education
    • Using Cell Phones in the Classroom
    • UW Bothell Hybrid Course Development Institute
    • UW Grad Students Test Out the Kindle DX
    • The Challenges of Distance Learning
    • LT Studio Open House - 4/19/2011
    • Back up, share and access files with Dropbox
  • ► April (8)
    • Horizon Report 2011
    • Using the iPad 2 in Education
    • Pennsylvania Universities Add Online Arabic Degree
    • Colleges Not Meeting Demand for Hybrid Courses
    • North Carolina High School Students Attend Their First College Classes on Second Life
    • "Successful Clicker Implementation" webinar
    • Everything You Need to Know About DC III ePortfolios
    • Edudemic Will Help Fund Your Educational Technology Project
  • ► March (13)
    • Facebook in the Classroom?
    • ipadio: Podcasting from your Cell Phone
    • Professors Review their First Year with the iPad
    • McGraw-Hill and Pearson Invest in Inkling
    • Becoming "100% paperless" in the classroom
    • Tips on Teaching Classes Online
    • Feeling Generous? Donate Your First Generation iPad to a School in Need
    • Helping Students Understand the Japan Crisis Through Technology
    • An Interesting Look at Purdue's Mobile Apps
    • The First Day of Class
    • Despite Booming eReader and eBook Sales, Many Students Still Prefer Traditional Textbooks
    • SlideShare Introduces Zipcast
    • Popular Tablets Compared
  • ► February (6)
    • 2-3 Credit Courses in Digital Media Practices
    • Social Media Class Skypes with Internet Celebs
    • Using Backchannels in the Classroom
    • Distinction between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" Dying
    • Social Networking and Grades
    • What do students think of the iPad?
  • ► January (5)
    • How Does Age Affect Web Use?
    • Duke University launches Sakai Pilot
    • Want to Keep Up with the latest EdTech News?
    • All About iPads
    • Audio, Video, and other Interactive Media Transforming College Classrooms
• ► 2010 (27)
  • ► December (3)
    • Check out the Digital Media Lab!
    • Institutions using iPad note that iPad good for "lightweight tasks"
    • iPad use Increasing in Higher Education
  • ► October (2)
    • e-Portfolios at UWB
    • Comparison of Student and Academic Technology Use Across Disciplines
  • ► September (1)
    • 16 Suggestions for Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
  • ► August (2)
    • Digital Devices Depriving Brain of Needed Downtime
    • New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back
  • ► July (4)
    • E-Textbooks: “An Interesting Ride”
    • EDUCAUSE Quarterly
    • Academic Commons Magazine
    • Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
  • ► June (8)
    • Educational Technology Research and Development
    • EDUCAUSE Review
    • Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
    • Campus Technology
    • The Horizon Report
    • Read-Write Matrix of Web 2.0 Tools
    • Boosting student engagement using Twitter
    • E-Readers not Quite Ready to Replace Traditional Textbooks
  • ► May (6)
    • The Mobile Campus: Higher Ed in the iPhone Age
    • Does Wikipedia Suck?
    • Designing Campus Learning Spaces
    • Opinion: Let faculty off the Hook
    • New National Ed Tech Plan could mean Radical Changes in Schools
    • E-textbooks could save students money
  • ► April (1)
    • Improving Graduation Rates for Online Students
• ► 2009 (65)
  • ► November (1)
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave
  • ► October (10)
    • Strategic Learning Environment Configurations in the Higher Education Sector in the U.K. and the U.S.
    • Blogs and wikis in the classroom
    • [WWW.2CHEAT.COM] UPDATE
    • The top 5 ways students use technology to cheat
    • Going For Distance
    • Genome Island: A Virtual Science Environment in Second Life
    • How to Write Course Standards Based on Objectives
    • How to Create Course Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy
    • RadioJames Objectives Builder
    • Organizing Your Online Course for Maximum Effect
  • ► September (9)
    • Supercomputing
    • Digital Storytelling Links
    • Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling
    • The Buzz Continues...The Diffusion of Digital Storytelling across disciplines and colleges at the University of Houston
    • Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom
    • The World of Digital Storytelling
    • Digital Storytelling Engages Tech-savvy Accounting Students
    • Evaluating the effectiveness of digital storytelling for student reflection
    • Digital Storytelling: A Meaningful Technology-Integrated Approach for Engaged Student Learning
  • ► August (9)
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling
    • Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009
    • Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions
    • Barriers to Distance Education
    • Master Planners: Faculty Development
    • Electronic Discussion Groups: How Initial Parameters Influence Classroom Performance
    • Programming Handheld Devices to Enhance Learning
    • The Hybrid Online Model: Good Practice
    • Getting the Grants: Boost Your Chances!
  • ► July (7)
    • Electronic Student Assessment: The Power of the Portfolio
    • The Promotion/Tenure Dilemma: Maintaining a Research Agenda While Developing Distance Learning Teaching Excellence
    • Making Connections: Collaborative Approaches to Preparing Today's and Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
    • Collaborative Reflection and Professional Community Building: An Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Use of an Electronic Discussion Board
    • Exploring the Influence of Web-Based Portfolio Development on Learning to Teach Elementary Science
    • The Impact of Online Teaching on Faculty Load: Computing the Ideal Class Size for Online Courses
    • Comparative Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Reflective Thinking in Synchronous versus Asynchronous Online Case Discussions
  • ► May (5)
    • World Digital Library
    • Internet Literacy Handbook
    • Are Wikis on the Way Out?
    • Screen Capturing Tools
    • AcademicInfo Website
  • ► April (6)
    • Fliggo
    • A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students
    • Distance Education Stats
    • University of Washington: ARTStor now available
    • Academic Commons
    • 2008 Surveys on Learning Technologies at UW
  • ► March (2)
    • Posterous
    • Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledge Retention
  • ► February (10)
    • Gradshare Q&A Site
    • 3 Challenges (with Benefits) to Wiki Use in Instruction
    • Horizon Report 2009
    • Wikis as a Teaching Tool
    • Horizon Report 2008
    • Horizon Report 2007
    • Horizon Report 2006
    • Facebook 2.0
    • Horizon Report 2005
    • College 2.0: A Wired Way to Rate Professors and to Connect Teachers
  • ► January (6)
    • Using Classroom Clickers To Engage Every Student
    • Undergraduate Students and Information Technology Study
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Geolocation
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Zotero
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Ustream
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Alternate Reality Games
• ► 2008 (42)
  • ► December (1)
    • Emerging Tech Challenges
  • ► November (8)
    • Using Chat in the Classroom
    • Darwin Recreated in Second Life
    • Blended vs Traditional Learning Research Study
    • A Summary of Web 2.0 for Education
    • Andragogy, not Pedagogy
    • Professors Use Game-Show Format to Help Students Review for Exams
    • 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
    • A Quick Idea on Using Wikipedia with Students
  • ► September (1)
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
  • ► August (5)
    • Ubiquitous Learning Conference 2008
    • Online Student Survival Guide
    • WebAnywhere
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter
    • A.nnotate
  • ► July (27)
    • Short and Sweet: Technology Shrinks the Lecture
    • Ensuring the Net Generation Is Net Savvy
    • Wetpaint.com Wikis
    • Why Use Technology in Education?
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Skype
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Wii
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Second Life
    • Martha Groom Uses Wikipedia
    • UW Catalyst Web Tools
    • bFree Blackboard Course Content Extractor
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Facebook
    • Blackboard Sync for Facebook
    • Faculty Ideas about Technology: Wikis
    • Seven Problems of Online Group Learning (and Their Solutions)
    • Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs!
    • Active Learning and Technology: Designing Change for Faculty, Students, and Institutions
    • Evaluation of Podcasting
    • Educational Technology at UW 2005 Report
    • Personal Electronic Devices Owned by Students
    • Channel 8 and Microsoft DreamSpark: Free Software
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Lulu
    • iBreadcrumbs: Research
    • Pedagogy 2.0 Article
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Google Apps
    • 7 Things You Should Know About Flickr
    • Finding and Using Digital Images Guide
    • Zamzar: Online File Conversion
• ► 2000 (7)
  • ► September (1)
    • Clickers!
  • ► July (6)
    • Blackboard Questions?
    • How do faculty use learning technologies?
    • What tools are available?
    • We support Faculty and Staff at UWB!
    • Can I submit grades online?
    • Try something new!