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MPICT Keynote Resources

Here are the resources to accompany my address: Leveraging Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 and Smart Phones for Educational Excellence at the Mid Pacific Information and Communication Technology Center. Here are the slides: MPICT Keynote Address View more presentations from kkapp. Here are some resources: GamesDiscussion of some of the key value of games for learning. […]

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Selling to Techies and Visionaries

This posting relates to my posting Technology Adoption Continuum: Types of Adopters. Read that posting first or this one may not make sense. The techies and the visionaries are early adopters of new technologies (like virtual worlds) within organizations. Both the techies and the visionaries like the idea of a brand new technology even if […]

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Technology Adoption Continuum: Types of Adopters

if you are trying to implement technology into your organization, you need to know who you are dealing with when you speak to the stakeholders. Here are some insights. In any organizational system, there are five types of individuals on what is called the “technology adoption continuum.” On one end of the continuum are the […]

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Facebook–Good for Your Memory: Twitter–Not So Much

A study recently released by Dr. Tracy Alloway of Scotland’s University of Stirling found that using Facebook stretches a person’s “working memory” (short-term or recent memory), while Twitter, YouTube and text messaging tend to weaken it. Bad news for all you Twanker’s in a Twance.* She states in the article, Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter […]

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Online Education: Better than the Classroom?

A recent study issued by the United States Department of Education, titled Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning found that “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” The study is a study of studies (meta-analysis), meaning they looked at many studies comparing online, face-to-face and blended learning […]

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Lego Inventor’s Contest

If you know a young person ages 6-13, consider having them enter into the Lego Click Awards contest. The contest asks kids to write an essay about innovation and provides a leading question.If you could event anything, What would it be? Describe how to use it? How did you get the idea?Why are you excited […]

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Diffusion of Innovations

Helping an organization to adopt a new technology is not easy. Often resistance is encountered and people become frustrated. To help organizations understand this process of how an innovation (new technology) is adopted among members of a group, researcher Everett M. Roger has done extensive study of how new technologies are accepted among social groups. […]

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Online University in a Box

Here is an interesting concept and one that I think will catch on. UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business has recently begun offering a new e-Learning certificate program titled Business Essentials. Avalon Consulting developed the program in conjunction with UNC based on Avalon’s “University in a Box.” Check it out… UNC Business Essentials Certificate Program The […]

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