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Best practices and practical tips for the effective use of technology in higher education classrooms.

Innovative educators around the world are using technology to improve student learning and redesign the way they teach. Through HP’s philanthropic grants to faculty in colleges and universities around the world, best practices in the effective use of technology in higher education are beginning to emerge. This blog is a forum to share and discuss what we are all learning. We especially invite educators around the world to participate in this dialog, sharing personal experiences in using technology to enhance the success of all your students.
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» Call for Submissions - 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware

Speaking of grants and awards, those of you who teach engineering related courses may find the Premier Award to be of interest. If you’ve developed some innovative courseware that you’d like to share, this could be a great way to disseminate some best practices and gain some recognition. Read on for the full announcement from our friend, Joe Tront (Virginia Tech, and Editor of the Premier Award). Submissions are due July 11th…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 5:29:00 PM
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» HP Labs Innovation Research Call for Proposals
Great news! My colleagues at HP Labs have just launched a global Call for Proposals as part of their HP Labs Innovation Research Program. This is an open and competitive Call for Proposals, where HP labs is “…soliciting your best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations…”
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 12:33:00 PM
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» Congratulations to the new 2008 HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients!

This is our 5th year of funding HP Technology for Teaching grants for K12 teachers and Higher Education faculty around the world. By the end of 2008, HP will have supported more than 1000 schools and higher education institutions in 41 countries, where educators are using technology to redesign the learning experience of their students.

I am very pleased to announce our 2008 grant recipients…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 11:31:00 AM
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» Sometimes Simple is Simply Better – Try “Pen Attention” by Kenrick Mock (U. of Alaska)

I’m always amazed at how powerful simple innovations can be. Kenrick Mock from the University of Alaska in Anchorage is an HP Technology for Teaching grant recipient and avid Tablet PC user – and has created a simple (and free!) applet that highlights your cursor while making presentations so everyone can see WHERE you are about to draw…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 12:10:00 PM
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» Global Colloquium on Engineering Ed (Cape Town, S. Africa) – Abstracts due 16 May 2008

If you are using technology to enhance and redesign engineering education, I highly recommend that you consider submitting a paper for the 7th annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. One of the three tracks is on “Successful Practices in Engineering Education”. The deadline for Abstracts is 16 May 2008.

I include a reprint of the email announcement from ASEE below…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 4:58:00 PM
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» New K12 blog on Digital Learning Environments
For those of you who are interested in the use of technology in primary and secondary schools, check out this new blog, “Digital Learning Environments”, (http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog)...
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Friday, April 04, 2008 at 10:38:00 AM
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» Cañada College Engineering Professor Named Regional Outstanding Educator

Amelito Enriquez, engineering professor and HP Technology for Teaching grant recipient at Cañada College (Redwood City, California, USA) has been honored by ASEE. On March 27th, he received the “Outstanding Community College Educator Award” for the Pacific Southwest Section of the American Society of Engineering Education!
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 5:16:00 PM
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» Learn about the instructional use of Tablet PCs - Reserve October 15-16, 2008 for WIPTE @Purdue
Speaking of conferences, if you are currently using or investigating pen-based technology, I highly recommend that you consider attending WIPTE, the premiere education-focused conference on pen technology. The conference is scheduled for October 15-16, 2008, at Purdue…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 1:20:00 PM
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» What can “transforming teaching” look like?

I’ve used the phrase “transforming teaching and learning” many times – but what does it really look like? Across the world of HP Technology for Teaching higher education grant recipients, the transformation varies. At DePauw University, a small student team in created an 8 minute documentary to show how Tablet PCs and new approaches to instruction have enhanced teaching (and learning) in computer science, Japanese language instruction, and chemistry…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:33:00 PM
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» Survey Results! - “What’s in a Name?”
Many thanks to those of you who participated in my informal survey, “What’s in a Name?”, probing whether the beloved Tablet PC is in need of a name change. It is now time to reveal the results the (non-scientific, margin of error = +/- 100%) poll of what you all think about the name “Tablet PC”. You may be surprised by the results…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 5:32:00 PM
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» Mobile Mapping Software – Vassar College Shares Their Approach to GPS & GIS

If you’re looking for software that supports student mapping and data collection, take a look at the blog from Professor Meg Stewart at Vassar College...
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 at 6:09:00 PM
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» Digital Ink on any application using ZoomIt

As I prepare to record a video introduction to my online course, I was searching for a way to record a guided tour of my online "classroom". I have Camtasia to do the recording, but I didn't know how to add temporary ink annotations to a webpage. A free application called ZoomIt does a great job - and has some other handy features for presenters...
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 5:36:00 PM
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» What’s in a Name? Revisiting the “Tablet PC”

So what’s in a name? Quite a lot, if it confuses everyone. I think it might be time to rename our beloved “tablet pc”. I have a few suggestions – let me know what you think…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 7:38:00 PM
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» GPS Short course at Geological Society Meeting (~3 October 2008)

For those of you who are interested in GPS, GIS, and field data collection, you may be interested in a short course being presented at the Geological Society of America annual meeting, 5-9 October 2008…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 1:32:00 PM
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» 2 Days – Amazing Possibilities: 2008 Worldwide Conference Highlights
What do you get when you take 138 faculty from 103 colleges and universities in 21 countries and you all meet for 2 days to share about teaching and learning with technology? You get:

A)      excited by the possibilities

B)      energized by the people

C)      exhausted by the intensity

D)     all of the above

 For me, the recent 2008 HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference, sponsored by HP and hosted by ISTE, was definitely “all of the above”…
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Posted by Jim Vanides on Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 7:37:00 PM
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» Call for Submissions - 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware
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» Congratulations to the new 2008 HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients!
» Sometimes Simple is Simply Better – Try “Pen Attention” by Kenrick Mock (U. of Alaska)
» Global Colloquium on Engineering Ed (Cape Town, S. Africa) – Abstracts due 16 May 2008
» New K12 blog on Digital Learning Environments
» Cañada College Engineering Professor Named Regional Outstanding Educator
» Learn about the instructional use of Tablet PCs - Reserve October 15-16, 2008 for WIPTE @Purdue
» What can “transforming teaching” look like?
» Survey Results! - “What’s in a Name?”
» Mobile Mapping Software – Vassar College Shares Their Approach to GPS & GIS
» Digital Ink on any application using ZoomIt
» What’s in a Name? Revisiting the “Tablet PC”
» GPS Short course at Geological Society Meeting (~3 October 2008)
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