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Easy Captioning for UNESCO’s World Heritage Videos on YouTube
Skip to updates [Editor's note: The following message was sent by Claude Almansi to UNESCO workers on 12 June 2010 with the heading "Easy captioning for UNESCO's World Heritage Videos on YouTube -...
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e-Book Readers: Attempting to Bugger the Blind Is Bad for Business
DoJ’s and DoE’s letter to college and university presidents on e-book readers On June 29, 2010, Thomas E. Perez (Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice) and...
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Of Cows, Captions and Copyright: Users Need the Right to Caption and Subtitle...
By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues Disclaimer | Digesting grass | Digesting videos | Video and text | Read-Write culture and tools | Universal Subtitles | Copyright hits the fan | Lessig’s...
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Info Literacy: Julian Assange’s Statement for the Feb. 4, 2011 Melbourne Rally
By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues ETCJ Associate Administrator Several mainstream media have mentioned and at times quoted from the video statement Julian Assange recorded in the UK for a...
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‘YouTube Copyright School’– Remixed and Mixed Up
By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues ETCJ Associate Administrator In his lecture, “The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge: Just How Badly We Have Messed This Up” (at CERN, Geneva,...
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Infographics: Problems and Opportunities
By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues ETCJ Associate Administrator There seems to be a new infographic craze, particularly about education and social media. I had been vaguely aware of the...
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Whither Writing Instruction in the 21st Century?
By Jason Ohler [Note: This is the first in a series of articles, coordinated by Bonnie Bracey Sutton, ETCJ associate editor, featuring experts that she has come to know personally. The following...
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Computers Can Help Language-Disabled Learners
By Frank B. Withrow I worked with language-disabled children at one time. Many of them would probably be classified today as children with autism. Some identified more easily with computers than with...
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Tactile Learning: Italian and US Experiences
by Claude Almansi, Frank B. Withrow, and Tiziana Castorina [Note: I started writing about the project of Liceo Artistico De Fabris, then I asked for feedback from Frank B. Withrow, because he has...
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Social Media Tips for Virtual Conference Attendance
By Melissa A. Venable [Note: Jessica Knott, ETCJ's Twitter/Facebook editor, has coordinated the publication of this article. -Editor] Last month The Sloan Consortium’s 7th Emerging Technologies for...
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The Future of Tablets — and More
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Recent news of a drop in iPad sales1 by Apple triggered some thoughts. Reporting that educational sales of iPads are still on the rise prompted more thinking....
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Who Dat? It’s E-Learn 2014! Come, Learn, Share, Connect
By Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Education The 19th annual international conference AACE E-Learn took place from October 27-30 in the sunny, warm and welcoming climate of the city of New...
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Free Webinar: ‘Using Technology to Engage Students’ 2/23/15 3pm EST
From Macmillan Higher Education 2/17/15: Join us on Monday, February 23rd at 3pm EST for a complimentary webinar on “Using Technology to Engage Students” with Solina Lindahl of Cal Poly San Luis...
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MOOC Sightings 001: UNC and Cornell
Despite wholesale announcements by powerful academic leaders throughout the U.S. that MOOCs are dead, sightings continue to pour in from around the country and the rest of the world. For skeptics, the...
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Kadenze, CourseTalk, ECO, MOOC Completion
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor Updated 6/21/15 As MOOCs proliferate, an inevitable byproduct is MOOC review services such as Class Central and CourseTalk.1 The problem, however, is that their results...
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A Successful Public Health MOOC: Interview with Dr. Satesh Bidaisee
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor One Health, One Medicine: An Ecosystem Approach was a five-week public health MOOC offered by Dr. Satesh Bidaisee1 at St. George’s University, Grenada, in summer 2016. The...
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QR Codes — Mystery Solved
By Lynn Zimmerman Associate Editor Editor, Teacher Education QR codes have always been a mystery to me. They are in a variety of places, and I know that one is supposed to scan them. I even downloaded...
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Bring the World to Your Classroom: Videoconferencing
By Bryan A. Upshaw My worst grade in high school was in Spanish I. Our teacher was tough, and the pace was blistering. I struggled to learn the vocab, grammar, and odd verb conjugation charts. I found...
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