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Quick Introduction, FAQ, and other information about the author.

By James C. Richards on Tue, 11/10/2009

alternate title: (For those of you who remember Jon Lovitz's tenure on SNL,) "GET TO KNOW ME!" > Read more

Classroom and Lecture Support for General Assignment Classrooms

By James C. Richards on Tue, 11/10/2009

One of my various responsibilities this Fall of 2009 is to help lecturers in the classroom when they experience technical difficulties using the installed equipment. Honestly, a lot of what goes wrong falls under "user error" - but then again, sometimes there are also "ghosts in the machines" that are to blame. This blog entry is meant to be a guideline for general classroom, data-projector problems, based on my experience dealing with them. > Read more

webcast.berkeley: YouTube EDU

By Benjamin Hubbard on Tue, 10/13/2009

Today, YouTube announced a new section on their site called YouTube EDU. This section is dedicated to organizing content published to YouTube by Educational partners such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT to name a few.

It's truly wonderful to see YouTube featuring andpromoting content that can enrich a person's experience all the way across the globe. Just one example of the amazing content you can find in YouTube EDU is Randy Pausch's Last lecture: > Read more

ETS Helps UC Berkeley Broadcast the Celebration of Oliver Williamson's Nobel Prize to the World

By Benjamin Hubbard on Tue, 10/13/2009

After a great deal of coordination and pre-event planning, it happened. At around 5:30AM on Monday, October, 12th several ETS staff members awoke to news that would guarantee a very busy day ahead, Oliver Williamson a UC Berkeley professor had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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To be, or not to be: online that is.

By Jon Hays on Mon, 09/21/2009

Take a peek at Thomas H. Benton's article, “Online Learning: Reaching Out to the Skeptics” as found in the Chronicle last week.  Dr. Benton does a great job of jumping past the old arguments of whether online learning is as good or better than face-to-face courses.  Instead, he focuses on how to use technologies to enhance what is happening in the classroom. > Read more

The Pulse Smart Pen @ Caltopia

By Janet Kodish on Thu, 09/10/2009

Always on the look-out for free stuff, I took Vice Chancellor for Administration Brostrom up on his invitation to staff to attend this year's Caltopia festival on August 24th, Cal's annual kick-off to the fall semester. A small vendor booth in the Tech Zone caught my eye.  > Read more

The new ETS website

By Michelle Ziegmann on Tue, 08/18/2009

By the time you've reached this blog post, I hope that you have found within the new ETS website everything that you were looking for, and maybe discovered something new along the way.  The site was designed with the users of our services in mind, giving you direct access to the information you need.  Over and above this goal, we would like to take the opportunity of your presence on our site to share our insights about educational technology in hopes that it will help you in your teaching and learning pursuits.  We also want to use the website to share the fascinating work i > Read more

Webcast.berkeley Brings You The Dalai Lama!

By Angela White on Wed, 05/13/2009

If you weren't one of the 7,000 people to see His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama speak at the Greek Theater in Berkeley this past April or if you simply want to study his words of wisdon, inspiration, and hope again - webcast.berkeley has you covered! > Read more

EDUCAUSE Conference and The Internet Archive

By Angela White on Tue, 04/21/2009

EDUCAUSE

My new position as Instructional Designer in the Educational Technology Services department of UC Berkeley gave me the opportunity to attend the EDUCAUSE Western Regional conference in San Francisco this past week. The theme was, "Finding Common Ground Among Shifting Technologies and Expectations." > Read more

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