http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/ Copyright 2007 Wed, 10 May 2006 16:28:36 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss After viewing many examples of digital textbooks and learning objects, I have come to realize the importance of including teaching guides to help teachers incorporate these learning objects into their claases. Offering digital texts or exercises is only part... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/05/teaching_math_with_osslets_ope.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/05/teaching_math_with_osslets_ope.html websites Wed, 10 May 2006 16:28:36 -0500 Jim Sparrow, from the University of Chicago who also recently attended our next \ text history meeting, has created an intriguing project on the New York Metropolitan area Blackouts of 1965 and 1977. The Blackout History Project is an... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/the_blackout_project_a_network.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/the_blackout_project_a_network.html websites Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:18:43 -0500 Cultura is an methodology for foreign language learning created by Gilberte Furstenberg, Sabine Levet, Shoggy Waryn, and was first implemented at MIT. The premise of Cultura is to provide an authentic learning experience by supporting student discussion and interaction... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/cultura_a_glimpse_at_the_futur_1.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/cultura_a_glimpse_at_the_futur_1.html higher education Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:04:35 -0500 We recently held the first of a series of discipline specific meetings with higher education teachers who use new media in their teaching and scholarship. We invited leading American History scholars to share their thoughts and experiences with history and... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/learning_from_our_next_text_hi.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/04/learning_from_our_next_text_hi.html Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:31:33 -0500 We are pleased to annouce the relaunch of the next \ text site. Many changes are afoot with the project, so we thought the site could use some graphical tinkering. A detailed explanation of the substantive changes to the inintiative... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/03/next_text_update.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/03/next_text_update.html General Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:26:54 -0500 The University of Iowa hosts a great example of using digital technology to improve teaching language pronunciation. The Phonetics Flash Animation Project demonstrates how to pronounce sounds with: flash animations of anatomic diagrams, video clips of people making a... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/learning_language_pronunciatio.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/learning_language_pronunciatio.html websites Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:29:00 -0500 As we've noted before in Next/Text, a key question in considering the future of the digital textbook is whether the text should be delivered to the user via the web or on a disc. In the 1990s — when... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/narrative_structure_and_medium.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/narrative_structure_and_medium.html cd/dvd-rom Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:37:05 -0500 When we talk about "digital textbooks" here at Next/Text, we're usually referring to textbooks that have moved from the printed page to the computer screen. But there are other types of digital texts — and digital learning environments —... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/reading_the_augmented_digital.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2006/01/reading_the_augmented_digital.html works in progress Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:35:05 -0500 Over the past few years, more and more professors have begun using course management software such as WebCT or Blackboard (and, increasingly, the non-commercial and open-source Sakai) to organize their syllabi, place assignments online, and create online forums for... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/the_american_film_using_webct.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/the_american_film_using_webct.html cd/dvd-rom Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:24:00 -0500 The Virtual Courseware Project creates interactive, online simulations for the life and earth sciences on their sciencecourseware.org site, including Drosophila. Taking its name from the fruit fly used in genetics research, Drosophila uses the classic fruit fly example to... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/learning_from_the_simulated_fr.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/learning_from_the_simulated_fr.html cd/dvd-rom Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:20:00 -0500 Since 1994, Roy Rozensweig's Center For History And New Media at George Mason University has pioneered the use of digital media to document and analyze historical events. Their particular focus is to transform history from an elite activity practiced... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/liberty_equality_fraternity_an.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/liberty_equality_fraternity_an.html higher education Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:18:00 -0500 When considering the ways in which born-digital learning materials might replace conventional textbooks, it's important to think about how digital material might change the notion of what a textbook can be � for example, replacing the idea of a... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/online_science_for_the_wired_c.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/online_science_for_the_wired_c.html K-12 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:53:00 -0500 At Wesleyan, faculty interested in creating multimedia learning environments turn to the Learning Objects Studio, a substantial multimedia development lab that has produced everything from flash animations of body wall formations in the chick embryo to the Ricardian Explorer,... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/virtual_village_allows_virtual.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/virtual_village_allows_virtual.html cd/dvd-rom Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:02:00 -0500 Children with speech difficulties � whether stemming from hearing impairment, autism, or language impediment � often benefit from drills in which they practice mimicking the facial muscle, jaw and tongue movements of instructors. However, as anyone who has taught... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/team_up_with_timo_vocabulary_b.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/team_up_with_timo_vocabulary_b.html cd/dvd-rom Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:49:00 -0500 The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL), one of the largest university centers devoted to creating new media education curricula, has been creating Multimedia Study Environments (MSE) for a number of years. During that time, they... http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/supported_reading_ambedkar_mul.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/12/supported_reading_ambedkar_mul.html higher education Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:35:00 -0500