tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54914692024-03-13T06:42:48.450-07:00Shari McCurdy SmithAreas of Professional Interest/Expertise: Delivery and design of online learning, Training, Marketing of online programs, Faculty development, Faculty workload and burnout, Assessment of online learning, Inter-institutional collaboration, Web 2.0 applications, Educational technology and instruction.Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-35303575914457610472013-10-14T17:30:00.000-07:002013-10-14T17:30:01.292-07:00Push Pop PlayWhere did this go?<br /><br /><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/02/facebook-push-pop-acquisition/">http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/02/facebook-push-pop-acquisition/</a><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="560"></iframe>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-31922754573265665842013-10-09T19:00:00.000-07:002013-10-14T13:22:34.776-07:00Qualcomm's interest in the brain is amazing. They are improving computer processing by studying the human brain: A major benefit of this for education might be the lower cost of big data processing.<br />
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http://www.fastcoexist.com/3018564/futurist-forum/the-computer-of-the-future-will-be-an-electronic-human-brainShari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-14790951565010373312012-11-06T13:39:00.000-08:002013-10-14T13:39:32.092-07:00<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: Heuristica, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;">A pretty good analogy from <i>The Neighborhood Effect</i> article by Marc Perry- Chronicle Nov 5, 2012. This is also what a child needs more than anything else-- An emotionally consistent environment .</span><br />
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<br />Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-19441532356314010542012-10-10T11:11:00.003-07:002012-10-10T11:11:48.100-07:00Flipped Classroom Resources<a href="http://plpnetwork.com/2012/10/08/flip-love-affair/">The Flip: End of a Love Affair</a> by Shelley Wright. Moving on from the flip. October 8, 2012<br />
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<a href="http://www.itslearning.net/the-flipped-classroom">The Flipped Classroom,</a> by Elisabeth Engum- A history lesson about flip and more. September 20, 2012<br />Outlines the switch from lower cognitive learning in the classroom to home; and higher cognitive learning from homework to the classroom and a teachers guidance.<br /><br />Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. by John Hattie, December 2008. From the A<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analyses-Achievement/dp/0415476186">mazon website book description</a>.<br /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A major message is that what works best for students is similar to what works best for teachers – an attention to setting challenging learning intentions, being clear about what success means, and an attention to learning strategies for developing conceptual understanding about what teachers and students know and understand."</span></span><br />
Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-10872489529903698362012-10-08T09:03:00.004-07:002012-10-08T09:03:57.205-07:00Five Forces<a href="http://hbr.org/2008/01/the-five-competitive-forces-that-shape-strategy/ar/1">The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-68207000765218774352012-09-27T13:11:00.000-07:002012-10-10T13:12:07.152-07:00Objective help?Visual Thesaurus<br />
<a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://www.visualthesaurus.<wbr></wbr>com/app/view</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-52275057529871298042012-09-27T09:07:00.000-07:002012-10-08T09:07:44.915-07:00Financial Trends for Higher EducatrionPenn State<br />College of Education<br />
Center for the Study of Higher Education<br />
<i>Financial Trends for Higher Education in the United States</i><br />
By Roger L. Geiger and Donald E. Heller<br />
January 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/cshe/working-papers/WP%236">http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/cshe/working-papers/WP%236</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-41303629517343066772012-09-06T14:37:00.000-07:002012-10-08T09:02:25.963-07:00Brain Biology and Teaching<i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cOR-fcOq-OcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false">The Art of Changing the Brain</a></i> Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning.<br />
by James E. ZullShari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-43428322037614600292012-09-03T08:58:00.000-07:002012-10-08T08:59:15.641-07:00CBL for patient safety"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Transparent Learning has partnered with Knowledge Factor (KF), the only educational company in the world that delivers online mastery of knowledge allowing learners to perform well with confidence. KF does this through its patented Confidence-Based Learning™ (CBL) System, an online program that isolates, measures, and remediates misinformation and doubt in learners before these educational weaknesses result in mistakes on the job.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> "</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.transparentlearning.com/confidence.html">http://www.transparentlearning.com/confidence.html</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-59933937385560178522012-08-13T11:14:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:38:42.257-07:00Innovation<i><a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-760.pdf">Radical innovation: crossing knowledge boundaries with interdisciplinary teams</a></i>, by Alan F. Blackwell, Lee Wilson, Alice Street, Charles Boulton, John Knell<br />Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-75659366039720701092012-07-30T04:00:00.000-07:002012-10-08T08:50:25.286-07:00bionic software<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"Coming next from <a href="http://ck12.org/">CK12</a>, early in 2012, for example, will be lesson plans for teachers to access, “</span><a href="http://bryce.vc/post/12600078312/bionic-software-and-programable-people" style="background-color: white; color: #0a9600; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">bionic software</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” to help them assess their students (Khan is also adding this to their system)."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">from</span></span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/15/teachers-or-algorithms/">http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/15/teachers-or-algorithms/</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-34057322682338329792012-07-27T06:30:00.000-07:002012-10-10T10:53:42.106-07:00The Marriage of Content and Context SmartHistory<br />
<a href="http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/">http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-30478397840903060482012-07-10T08:01:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:01:33.270-07:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Avatars and Worlds</span><br /></b><br />
<a href="http://www.mediasemantics.com/hosting/">Media Semantics</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.voki.com/">Voki </a>And <a href="http://www.sitepal.com/">Site Pal</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sitepal.com/ttswidgetdemo/">Sitepals free text-to-speech</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.toolwire.com/">Toolwire</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.protonmedia.com/video/overview/">Protosphere</a><br /><br />Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-11599356652604998292012-06-30T13:08:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:26:47.351-07:00<a href="http://www.worldofwebcast.com/post/massive-list-of-mooc-resources-lit-and-literati">MediaSite's Massive List of MOOC Resources</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-10480283754886646042012-06-29T08:29:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:30:14.175-07:00George Siemens - Ted Talk - March 3, 2010<br />"Framing Education"<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4BH-uLO6ovI" width="560"></iframe>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-37969158492416677702012-05-08T10:06:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:06:27.139-07:00App Review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.iear.org/">IEAR</a><br />From their website....<br /><a href="http://www.iear.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #626262; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">I Education Apps Review</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is now a community of over 500 educators, administrators and </span><a href="http://ieducationappsreview.ning.com/group/applicationdesignersandcoders" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">app developers</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.<br /><br />Site includes reviews of apps, cool tools, app grading, student reviews, search field, and app of the week to name a few features.</span></span>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-34594747718714778642012-03-05T08:45:00.000-08:002012-10-05T08:45:49.112-07:00<i><a href="http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/03/01/Facing-Higher-Eds-IT-Funding-Future.aspx?Page=3">Facing Higher Education's IT Funding Future</a></i><br />March 1, 2012<br />Campus TechnologyShari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-60286470588425523292012-01-11T10:33:00.000-08:002012-10-05T08:13:59.140-07:00<a href="http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/">Gilfus Education Group</a><br />5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012--Campus Technology<br /><a href="http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/5-higher-ed-tech-trends-for-2012-campus-technology">http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/5-higher-ed-tech-trends-for-2012-campus-technology</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-57770514467532831262011-10-28T08:13:00.000-07:002012-10-08T09:14:09.449-07:00Policy Challenges in Online LearningFrom Educause Policy Matters<br />
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/online-learning-challenges-state-authorization-federal-regulation"><i>Educause Online Learning Challenges: State Authorization and Federal Regulation</i></a><br />by Jarrett Cummins<br />
October 24, 2011<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"<i>In the interim, traditional colleges and universities will continue to face the unintended consequences of federal action in the form of increased financial and administrative burdens, providing significant motivation for collective engagement by federal, state, and institutional stakeholders to develop a regulatory structure that works for online learning</i>."</span>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-68551690359701648282011-05-03T14:06:00.000-07:002011-05-03T15:01:00.647-07:00<strong>Twitter<br /></strong><br /><a href="http://twitturly.com/">Twitturly</a> - watch the most popular url postings<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638550095558381.html">How To Twitter by Julia Angwin</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter">Twitter Info from CrunchBase</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-63062727129818921422011-04-13T17:34:00.000-07:002011-04-13T19:08:47.969-07:00<strong>Open Education</strong><a href="http://www.openeducation.net/2011/03/16/increasing-college-completion-rates-wrong-policy-emphasis/"><em>Increasing College Completion Rates--Wrong Policy Emphasis?</em></a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-37438995570492047412010-10-05T09:40:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:41:13.831-07:00Sir Ken Robinson<br />
Youtube on Creativity<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iG9CE55wbtY" width="420"></iframe>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-80335376913635938362010-10-05T08:51:00.000-07:002012-10-05T08:52:55.445-07:00Committed Sardine<a href="http://www.fluency21.com/blog.cfm">The 21st Century Fluency Project</a>Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-7238499989637424042010-09-16T20:59:00.000-07:002011-04-13T17:33:32.743-07:00<strong>Presentations 2009-2010 </strong><br /><br>•Madison Distance Learning Conference; Pre-Conference Workshop and Lightning Session, Aug 2010 <br /><br>•Sloan-c Emerging Technologies Conference, July, 2010 <br /><br>•Blended Pre-Conf Invited Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009 <br /><br>•Faculty Dev Invited Session Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009 <br /><br>•Mentoring Online Session Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009 <br /><br>•Faculty Dev Post-Conf Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Nov 2009 <br /><br>•Pre-Conference Workshop and Session, Annual Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching, Madison, WS, Aug 2009 <br /><br>•Social Media Online 10 day Workshops Sloan-C, June 2009 <br /><br>•Pre-Conf Workshop, Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Conference, San Francisco, June 2009Shari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491469.post-6588148391016743562010-04-13T19:12:00.000-07:002011-04-13T19:15:24.410-07:00<strong>Lumina Foundation, FAQ on Bologna and Tuning</strong>http://www.luminafoundation.org/our_work/tuning/Q_and_A-Bologna_and_Tuning.htmlShari Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07832486287923395117noreply@blogger.com