IET eNews Comments

The February 2012 edition of eNews reported on the concept of having a class “adopt” a Wikipedia article, meaning that, as a group, the class would take on the responsibility of bringing the article to the next level in terms of accuracy and scholarship. This semester, two F&M professors, Amelia Rauser, Art History, and Lynn [...]

flipped classroom (n): inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction online outside of class and moving “homework” into the classroom. A new term has entered the lexicon of education – the flipped classroom. A recent search on Google returned over 2.7 million hits on the phrase. While the idea has been getting a lot of press [...]

Gmail Motion is a new way to control Gmail using body language. To use Gmail Motion, you’ll need a computer with a built-in webcam. Once you enable Gmail Motion from the Settings page, Gmail will enable your webcam when you sign in and automatically recognize any one of the detected movements via a spatial tracking [...]

NOTE: This is the six in a series of articles focusing on social media and how it may be used in teaching and learning. This issue will focus on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a free social networking site catering mainly to professional networking. In addition to English, the site is available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, [...]