Category Archives: Tech for thought

Via Response bring your own device clicker software to test in your classroom

Free software test- faculty and adjuncts Lehman College has been invited to a free one semester test pilot of Via Response, the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) cloud-based software that operates much like the hardware based ‘clicker’ personal response system. A recent college-wide survey … Continue reading

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A little Monday morning social media quarterbacking…

A few bits of information about social media and the ‘big game’ yesterday to smile through Monday…Twitter reported today that in the final (exciting) 3 minutes of Sunday night’s 2012 Super Bowl game, there were an astonishing 10,000 tweets per second! … Continue reading

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Is Collaboration a Dirty Word?

This is Part 1 of a 3-part post on “Is Collaboration a Dirty Word?” With memories of some well-conceived collaborative projects from my own graduate studies programs still fresh in my mind, I have something to add to the “New … Continue reading

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Not quite the second coming for the LMS universe(ity)

In mid October I caught an article on the Wired Campus blog belonging to The Chronicle of Higher Education declaring in a strongly worded headline: “Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System.” Reading through it, … Continue reading

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