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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. Assessment Creation Tool. You are definitely reading that correctly.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have to create an environment of trust around the information we collect and be crystal clear about where it’s going. From restricting wireless access points to encrypting data on your organization’s portable laptops, keeping a secure environment is an integral part of preventing data leakage and upholding your constituents’ trust.

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The Environmental and Cost Savings Benefits of Windows MultiPoint Server

Tech Soup

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. A WMS system provides an overall cost and energy savings of 66 percent compared to a traditional 1:1 computing environment. They cost from $150 to $200 per unit.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Betsy, a former teacher with a Master's in Education and Learning Disabilities, has a keen understanding of what educators need to adopt Bookshare.org and other technology in the classroom.

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