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Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.

For more information watch "Social sites aid education" on the Hotseat website: www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/hotseat

OR

Listen to "Interactivity In The Lecture Hall" CBC Spark Episode 169:

www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/01/spark-169-january-22-25-2012/

Friday Feature: Interview with Lawrence Ragan on Innovations in Education

Submitted by sgough on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 8:07pm

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"Larry Ragan discusses the skills that faculty need to teach well in online and blended courses, how to select appropriate content for each delivery mode and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. The role of instructional design and other support staff in helping faculty be successful teachers online and in the classroom is also covered."

Friday Feature: What adults can learn from kids

Submitted by sgough on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 4:32pm

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TED Talk:

"Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach."

See the Ted Talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html