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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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
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