21st Century Scholar

Today’s Thursday is TechDay is a vocabulary lesson. After reading this post, you will know the difference between “HTML5” and “FLASH” (formerly known as Macromedia Flash). Both HTML5 and Flash are used to create webpages. HTML is a language, while Flash is a platform, but that’s a bit more technical than this post has reason [...]

Did you know that Anaheim offers residents wireless capabilities throughout the city? Austin, too. Not so in Vancouver. This post is inspired, in part, by the unforeseen Internet access challenges I experienced at AERA 2012. I’m not complaining. On the contrary, my intent is to investigate connectivity options outside the home computer environment so as to [...]

Hold onto your Power Points, Prezis, and Silde Rockets, there’s a new presentation resource in town. It’s called Projeqt, and last month it won a SXSW Interactive Award in the category of Educational Resource. What is it? Reuters claims, “Projeqt allows users to pull real-time content into a presentation, including feeds from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, [...]

Thursday is TechDay would like to introduce you to the Edupunk movement. No, they won’t beat you up. No, they aren’t mean and aloof or any of the other pejoratives associated with the word “punk.” What is it? Well, Stephen Downes defines it as “student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced.” The movement’s growth spurt is [...]

First of all, you may be wondering, “What’s CAQDAS?” It’s a (not so simple) acronym for Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. Have you heard of Atlas.ti? Or HyperRESEARCH? Or NVivo? How about Dedoose? These are CAQDAS programs. The purpose of all CAQDAS programs is to support data analysis. The platforms differ in subtle ways from [...]

Today’s Thursday is TechDay is a glimpse into understanding the academic utility of Facebook to support college success. Of course, Facebook’s academic liabilities are all too familiar discussion points. Yes, students login to Facebook during class and some spend hours cruising the network instead of writing that term paper that’s due tomorrow. But the prevalence [...]

This post is a look back at the web of 2011 (dominated by Web 2.0) and a look forward to the web of 2012 (welcoming Web 3.0). If you’ve heard of Web 2.0 and aren’t sure what that means, here’s a quick refresher. The World Wide Web in its initial incarnation (retroactively dubbed Web 1.0) [...]

Today’s Thursday is TechDay is a critique and a celebration. I recently attended the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) annual meeting in Charlotte and there is much to report about the role online communication technologies are (and aren’t) playing in the postsecondary research community. The critique is the obvious stuff: No wifi [...]

Thursday is TechDay Today’s Thursday is TechDay blog is an introduction to the future of qualitative research software: the online platform. If you haven’t heard the news, there’s a new qualitative software player in town. It’s called Dedoose, and it’s worth a look for two reasons. First, within the qualitative research community, it pioneers the [...]

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