The Economist Invites You To A Debate

The Economist.com launches a debate -- A Severe Contest: The Economist Debate Series. Check it out and you may enjoy participating.

North Carolina Teaching Conference

Peter W. Schuhmann posts on tch-econ that they still have room available at their teaching conference.

The Seventh Annual
Economics Teaching Workshop
Saturday October 13, 2007
SunSpree Resort, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina

"University of Akron Digital Ink Group" is formed

In a previous post I reported that the faculty have an option this Fall to get Tablet PCs and over 400 of them have done so (although that number is on the level of rumor so far). I just finished conducting three workshops for our Institute for Teaching and Learning entitled "Why Your Laptop Needs A Pen." Over 70 faculty showed up and spent 60-80 minutes with me exploring how their teaching and learning can be enhanced with the Tablet PC. We also have formed under the sponsorship of the Institute for Teaching and Learning a group to share experiences with the new tablets and to possibly lead to some study of them called the University of Akron Digital Ink Group (or UAdig for short). We will be sharing on a private on-campus only discussion list and a more public website.

PowerPoint presentation
UAdig website

Slidecasting

Here is a site I will be trying out soon. Combine a powerpoint and podcast to create a slidecast. Already at Slideshare.com is the ability to upload your slides to a server and have them run on your webpage. Now they add the ability to add voice to it by combining your MP3 file and you can set the page breaks so the slides are sync'ed with the audio. Here is an example of a slideshow embeded on a webpage (reviewing the DEE Conference).


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