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As we head down the last stretch of the semester, it’s a good time to recheck our Blackboard course grade centers and make sure everything’s working as it should be. Here are a couple of tips:

First, make […]

We love Google books but, for research, often find its limitations frustrating. We love the many and varied digital collections that abound throughout the web but wish they could be used in a more seamlessly […]

We love Google books but, for research, often find its limitations frustrating. We love the many and varied digital collections that abound throughout the web but wish they could be used in a more seamlessly […]

Replacing the slightly older concept of Hybrid Courses, the term “Flipped Classroom” has been gaining in popularity across blogs and news sources.  (And in terms of sheer buzz, both are currently being outdistance […]

Given a series of online articles, which presentation format will make them easier to read: providing a list of links through which the reader must click or gathering them together as an ebook?

ReadLists is an […]

I think about apps as belonging to one of two categories: 1) apps that have pre-packaged content that you can read and perhpas play with, and 2) apps that are designed to let you create, manipulate, capture or […]

I hesitate to post this one as “Today’s App” because I have not actually gotten or used it yet. However, it looks like it might be a good solution to a recurring difficulty.

One of the challenges in […]

Stephen Downes and George Siemans, long known for their support of the idea of open education and personal learning environments (PLEs) are offering a course on Connectivism, through the University of […]

The Chronicle’s Forum area has a new thread on the inverted classroom. Some are calling this hybrid, some flipped, but in general it is a discussion by people who have tried implementing these ideas into their own […]

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What? You’re looking at it now! If you have a UVM account you can have a blog. In fact, you can have multiple blogs.
Why? You might want to use blogs for your courses, for […]

Applications are now being accepted for the UVM Hybrid Course Initiative program! Read more about teaching hybrid coures, about the initiative, and the benefits in applying to teach one of these courses.
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We’ve recently had fun expanding our Media Resources page. There are new links to image collections, organized by Agriculture and Natural Resources, Art, History, Science, and General Collections. There are more […]

Microsoft KB 187498 describes the registry values that can be used to disable various security protocols. Disabling SSLv2 is as easy as

This does require a reboot to put into affect.

We just read about <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/partnerships/development2/?Page=news&storyID=15223&category=CUPS
http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/ctlcal/">this networking event for early career faculty next week, on Wednesday, Feb. 20th, and wanted to pass on the […]

Take an old-fashioned slate tablet (yes, I do mean old-fashioned–a slab of rock glued to a board–you know Little House on the Prairie style), do a little arithmetic problem on it, then cross it with an iPad and […]

One way to learn about open education online and how it is changing learning is to follow the many blogs cropping up. Another is to keep an eye on education conferences, though these do tend toward […]

Despite the turn that eportfolios are taking away from personal learning tools and towards “a collection of things to augment your resume,” the concept of creating and controlling your own learning is alive and […]

I administer a server VM with a lot of disks, and many of them are the same size. When I need to make changes to the system’s storage, I’m always nervous that I’m going to poke the wrong disk. I could trust that […]