Thinking about Web 2.0

The students in EPE674:Theories of Student Development did a little online sleuthing for ideas, articles, and commentary on the new world of Web 2.0 for recent class discussion of how the new technology might affect student development.  Here’s what we found:

For a discussion of the overall effects of social media/technology in higher education from a United Kingdom perspective: http://staff.blog.ui.ac.id/harrybs/files/2008/10/web-2-for-content-for-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-education.pdf.  And then more on whether or not this is a good thing (for higher education): http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2008/10/Web-20-Good-for-Education.aspx?Page=1.  And whether this changes the way we read…http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Too-Much-Reading-Try/8996/.

We hear from professors using technology in the classroom and the dangers of letting students take control: http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-With-Twitter-Not-for/49230/.  There is also news on teaching practices, including the use of clickers… http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/dec/01/device-helps-instructors-measure-understanding/, and engaging in history… http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Matters-Creating/49211/.  And finally, can students and faculty really be friends?  http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Course-Requirement-Friend/8827/.

We all know that the internet has changed how we access research, but now you don’t even need a computer…http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_b1fe01a0-dd72-11de-a697-001cc4c002e0.html.  And technology is changing how we might do research as well: http://chronicle.com/article/Text-Messaging-Shows-Promis/48674/.

Students can learn on-line but now they can also get help there too…http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/online_community_college/ however, they may still need librarians… http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html?q=link:webology.ir/

And try a three hour tour to a new kind of island (unlike Gilligan and the Professor, you can come back anytime)...http://ukisland.wordpress.com/

Congratulations to our Newest Graduates!

It's been a busy couple of weeks for some EPEers...Kudos to masters students Mel Lesch, Kacie Powell, Kate Pieratt, Jim Breslin, and Farrah Dicken on successfully finishing their scholarly papers and sitting their exams.  Abstracts of these students' work and current dissertation projects etc. are coming soon to the department website:  education.uky.edu/EPE.

Good time to head to Pazzo's tomorrow evening to celebrate!

Student Happy Hour at Pazzo's Tomorrow Evening!

EPE Happy Hour at Pazzo's

Please join us for happy hour at Pazzo's this Friday December 4th starting at 5:30.  We'll be downstairs in the "Pub".  Half-priced appetizers, $1.95 domestic drafts, and $2.95 Stella Artois are the nightly specials. http://www.pazzospizzapub.com/index.html

Invitation to a Special Screening of the New Documentary Film, "No Impact Man"-- Free and Open to the Public

The University of Kentucky's College of Education and the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment cordially invite you to attend a special, pre-DVD-release screening of the new documentary film No Impact Man to be held at UK's Worsham Theater on Monday, December 7, at 7 p.m.  The film will be followed by a community discussion led by the Student Sustainability Council and UK Greenthumb Environmental Club.  The event is free and open to the public. 

About the film:

A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year. Turns off the electricity, stops making garbage, gives up TV, taxis and take-out and becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating citizen. All while taking his baby daughter and caffeine loving retail-obsessed television-addicted wife along with him.

·         Watch the film trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fITT6rVPds
·         Share the promotional flyer for the UK event: http://tinyurl.com/UKYNoImpactMan
·         Share the web widget: http://noimpactproject.org/movie/spectacular/

This event is free and open to the public, so please forward this message to anyone who you think would be interested.

For inquiries, please contact Ellen Usher at ellen.usher@uky.edu.

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Kudos on Fellowship Award

Congratulations Chris!

"Christina Wright of Fort Wayne, Ind., is the recipient of a $2,000 University of Kentucky Woman's Club Endowed Fellowship. The fellowship is funded by generous contributions from the UK Woman's Club as well as support from the Research Challenge Trust Fund. Candidates must be currently enrolled full- or part-time doctoral candidates who have passed all qualifying examinations, and are required to submit a statement detailing their field of study, obstacles overcome, aspirations, personal characteristics and reasons for seeking a career in college teaching. The fellowship will be used by Wright to support doctoral studies in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the UK College of Education."

Research Assistantship at CPE Fall 2010

Stay tuned for possible new assistantship at the Council of Post-Secondary Education Institutional Research Group to work on data analysis in questions around statewide transfer and financial aid. Might start this spring.  Let me know if you are interested.  --Jane