by Henry Furman
The marquee innovation in the music industry in the past twelve months, Spotify, has changed everything. Since July, American users have had a majority of the world’s music at their fingertips. All for free, making the potential for discovery and thorough appreciation endless. But what does this mean for the money and time we’ve put into our personal music collections?
by Emmanuel Quartey
When I think of YouTube, I think cat videos and music, not educational content - seems like the YouTube Powers-That-Be are trying to change that.
YouTube Education brings some of the best educational content on the video platform into one place, featuring lessons from a variety of great sources.
YouTube for Schools allows instructors to create course from any of the content featured on YouTube EDU. YouTube has gone to great lengths to preempt the concerns of educators: to prevent distraction, videos curated through YouTube for Schools have the comments section disabled, and there are no additional videos featured to the right.
YouTube Teachers is a great introduction for teachers who’re curious about incorporating technology into their courses, but aren’t quite sure where to begin.
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by Emmanuel Quartey
Fun fact: if you’re a Yalie, you’ve been assigned a Personal Librarian who can help you navigate Yale’s vast library resources. Can’t remember who your personal librarian is, or curious about the program? You can find out here.
Each major also has a Subject Specialist, who you can contact about more advanced research within your discipline, which is super handy for Senior Essays. Look for yours here.
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by Emmanuel Quartey
File this one under “arguments for why touch tablets have a role in education.”
I’m not quite sure when it happened, but my iPad has suddenly become my primary reading device. Blogs, tweets, class readings, articles - if it’s text, I instinctively reach for the tablet.
by Emmanuel Quartey
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I don’t know why this isn’t a bigger deal on the interwebs, but you can now take nine Yale Summer Session courses for full Yale credit in Summer 2012. The courses are:
SESSION A (June 4-July 6)
ENGL S220E Milton, John Rogers
MUSI S265E Jazz and Race in America, Tom Duffy
PSYC S110E Introduction to Psychology, Kristina Olson
PSYC S171E Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature, Laurie Santos
SESSION B (July 9-August 10)
ECON S285E The Welfare Economics of Public Policy, Don Brown
ENVE S105E Introduction to Green Energy, Yehia Khalil
MUSI S120E Listening to Classical Music, Craig Wright
PHIL S152E Moralities of Everyday Life, Paul Bloom
PLSC S394E/MMES S481E Introduction to Middle East Politics, Ellen Lust
Note that you’ll have to pay for these classes, so they’ll put you back a few thousand dollars, but it’s still a huge move for the University. You can take free online courses through Open Yale Courses, but to the best of my knowledge, this is Yale’s first serious entry into for-profit long-distance learning. I wonder who is driving this initiative, and whether there’re any plans to extend the program into the academic year.
For full course descriptions please click here.
For application information please click here.
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Really been enjoying MindShift lately. The NPR off-shoot site chronicles the future of learning. Their catchphrase - “how we will learn” - pretty much sums it up.
A couple must reads:
Ernest Hemingway Meets “This American Life”: the New English Lit Class
by Emmanuel Quartey
Cinematic opening sequence of “E. O. Wilson’s Life on Earth”.
Apple made waves last month with its entry into the digital textbooks market. The commentary around the announcement was impassioned, but for this post, I’m not going to revisit the arguments for/against the iTextbook. Rather, I’m just going to speak to my experience of reading the free preview of E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth. These are my first impressions.
by Emmanuel Quartey
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It’s already midterm season, which means that if you’re taking a class that requires a lot of memorization, you’re going to need to come up with a way to commit all those terms to memory. Flashcards are a tried and true method of getting the job done, but writing out dozens of physical flashcards can be a chore. Enter SCIENCE. Here’re the three most popular free flashcard apps in the Apple appstore.
by Emmanuel Quartey
Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of presenting before the Trumbull Fellows, a group of instructors and professionals affiliated with Trumbull College. It was a much larger turn-out than we were expecting, and underscored in my mind how deeply curious educators are about the emergent tools that promise to aid learning.
By Austin Bernhardt
Listen up, Yalies: renting and using equipment from Bass Media has never been easier. This past Saturday, ITS hosted what it hopes will become an annual fair to show off some of its latest acquisitions, as well as to spread the word regarding some of their new programs. If the news isn’t groundbreaking per se, it’s definitely exciting for anybody interested in getting more involved with the more audiovisually-inclined side of campus life.
By Henry Furman
As the iPad continues to trickle into every little niche of productivity you never thought it would, more and more students, from grade school to grad school, are finding it conducive to learning. Whether it’s Apple’s launching of iBooks Textbooks or the countless number of flashcard apps that make Spanish vocabulary a little less painless, iPads have asserted themselves at the forefront of educational technology. But what makes iPads most attractive to students is note taking. Organization, simplicity and security make the iPad hard to compete with. Here’s five of our favorite apps for those of us who will never buy another Moleskine.
by Emmanuel Quartey
Will Moritz (TC ‘12) just launched a car sharing service for Yalies called Friends With Wheels. It’s a platform that allows Yalies to find cars at a better price than Zipcar, and allows students with an idle set of wheels to make a little money.
Here are the Top 10 ‘Metatrends’ Shaping Educational Technology, as decided by the New Media Consortium conference sketched out!
A favorite was what they referred to as “transparency movements.” This essentially referred to the recent open data and open-educational resource trends that are disrupting content ownership of the textbook days.
via The Chronicle
by Emmanuel Quartey
At the first-ever Bass Media Fair, Yalies can get their hands dirty with the ever-popular Bass Media Equipment Checkout program’s equipment! We’re unveiling new items, a new consulting aspect of the program, and we’ll have 3 media demos during the event.
Come play with our cameras, ask questions about hardware and software, and find out more about how our program works. There are prizes, too: fill out a short survey, and you’ll be entered to win one of several prizes, including a Canon Powershot camera! Light refreshments will be available.
Hosted by: Bass Media Equipment Checkout, ITS and Bass Library
Where: Sterling Lecture Hall (by Wall St. entrance)
When: Saturday Feb. 4, 1-4pm
For more information, contact Erin Scott (erin.scott@yale.edu).
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by Emmanuel Quartey
From the Computing and the Arts email list:
YALE HACKATHON
Yale Hackers (Undergraduate Computing Club) is having a hackathon two weekends from now.
The theme of the hackathon is making life more efficient. How can you play into the laziness of Yale students? How could you automate your life?
We’ll have food, prizes and sponsorship from great potential employers, so it’ll be a lot of fun. The hackathon will run from noon Saturday, 2/18 to noon Sunday, 2/19. All students (undergrad and graduate) are invited to attend.
Please RSVP: http://www.doodle.com/p4rng64c3kx4f43hWe’ll have prizes for the best project, the most futuristic idea and interface, the project that saves the most time, and the best underclassmen team.
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by Emmanuel Quartey
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Quick, what’s the second most popular online social network at Yale? I’m willing to bet that after Facebook, the site that most Yalies are posting/lurking/procrastinating on is YaleFML.com.
