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Posted by Marilyn Dispensa at 10:18AM   |  Add a comment

 I've had a Twitter account @indispenzable for a few years but hadn't really used it until after I attended a workshop at the 2011 Distance Learning Conference in Madison this past August. There was a very active Twitter contingent there and it was exciting to be communicating with people who are sitting in the same sessions and even...

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Turnitin by iParadigms has been in the news lately, drawing criticism of their companion product, WriteCheck.  Ithaca College licensed Turnitin for Educators which includes their OriginalityCheck service. [See links below] OriginalityCheck compares a student's submitted work to...

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Posted by Marilyn Dispensa at 12:11PM   |  Add a comment

  At the 2011 Distance Learning Conference I attended one of Tonya Joosten's workshops on social media. She is Associate Director of the Wisconsin – Milwaukee Learning Technology Center and teaches in the Department of Communications She maintains a blog and is an active Tweeter @tjoosten.    I'm...

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Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, and simulations, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University creates open web-based ...

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Posted by Marilyn Dispensa at 5:19PM   |  Add a comment

Professor Hayder Assad teaches beginning and intermediate Arabic language courses at Ithaca College and wanted to give his students the opportunity to practice their language skills with native speakers and learn more culturally.   Professor Assad, Mark Hine, and I informally discussed this possibility and we thought we would try to make it happen during the Spring 2011 semester....

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