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In the high-stakes world of college sports, new scandals and public relations nightmares continually emerge. Now a new online twist has surfaced: how to address less-than-flattering posts from student-athletes on social networking sites. One Minnesota university has taken a bold step by banning student-athlete use of Facebook, MySpace and other sites after disciplining students for online posts last year.
Via Mike Neiss at Tom Peters’ blog, comes this point to a Did You Know PowerPoint presentation done by Karl Fisch, a teacher at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. The presentation is filled with some amazing facts for students or anyone. Be sure to download both the PowerPoint and the mp3 file to the same place on your computer to get the full effect, or, as an alternative, you can download a Windows Media Player version.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plans to provide free Internet access to its entire 1800 courses by the end of the year (story here via Digg). We reported on MIT’s OpenCourseWare last fall (see Big Universities = Big Business), but this is a considerable expansion of that program.
There are an incredible number of free e-learning opportunities available to anyone in the world that has a computer and Internet access. That is why MIT has also put its weight behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative sponsored through the U.N. This is a remarkable example of a great university doing something big to change the world.
The use of Wikipedia among college students has led to crackdowns from professors – and promising uses in other areas of academia. At Middlebury College, the history department has banned students from citing Wikipedia in papers or exams after several professors noted that inaccurate information was being cited. (see this story). Meanwhile, colleges and universities such as MIT, Cornell, Indiana and Yale have used Wikipedia in the classroom.
Matt Charpentier, an Art Director at Sundog, and several of his creative fellow Dandy Dwarves were commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to develop SCADshorts. Check it out. Each month there’s a new contest with a short video, and all you have to do is look for clues and guess the name of the video. There are more details in the “About” and “How To Play” sections of the above link.