Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public
service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova
Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft.
Innovate-Live webcasts, produced as a public service by our partner,
ULiveandLearn, allow you to synchronously interact with authors on the
topics of their articles.
You may register for the April/May webcasts at
http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/. Webcasts will be
archived and available in the webcast section of the article and in
the Innovate-Live portal archive shortly after the webcast. All times
are New York time. You may use the world clock at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate with your time
zone.
Schedule
April 22, 2009
11:00 A.M. Eastern Time
Meeting the Needs of All Students: A Universal Design Approach to
Computer-Based Testing
Authors: Michael Russell, Thomas Hoffmann, and Jennifer Higgins
See
http://tinyurl.com/dx67lz
2:00 P.M. Eastern Time
Innovate-Ideagora: A Call for Sustainable Development in
Instructional Technology
Authors: Denise Easton and Al McCord
6:00 P.M. Eastern Time
A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students
Author: Marie Sontag
http://tinyurl.com/dhprfx
Innovate-Ideagora Webcasts
In addition to the webcasts with Innovate authors, Innovate Ideagora
editors Alan McCord and Denise Easton will conduct an open access
Innovate-Ideagora webcast interview in the Innovate Live Portal at
http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/ on April 22, 2009.
1:00 PM Eastern
Can the CrowdSPRING Model Help Education?
Interview with Crowdspring's Ross E. Kimbarovsk
This interview is described at
http://innovate-ideagora.ning.com/notes/Upcoming_Ideagora_Live_Interviews
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use Microsoft technology to enhance the educational experience for
publication consideration in the "From our Sponsors" section, please
make sure that it conforms to the publication guidelines described in
the "Contribute" link on the navigation bar at
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note that Microsoft has partnered with Lenovo to offer ThinkPad
laptops pre-loaded with Windows Vista Ultimate and Microsoft Office
Ultimate 2007 with a substantial discount to the higher education
community. (See
http://www.microsoft.com/education/highered/ultimatepc.aspx for the
details.) Note that this offer is currently available only in the
United States, but it may be extended internationally.
Best.
Jim
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James L Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info
Fischler School of Education and Human Services
Nova Southeastern University
http://www.schoolofed.nova.edu/home.htm