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Teresa Coffman’s ITEC 521 course is doing some exciting things with the small pieces loosely joined approach to instructional technologies. The class has been exploring Twitter, playing with wikis at wikispaces, collaborating on a Wikibook, and using Google Pages as eportfolios just to name a few of the ways they have been using the open web to share, collaborate, and present the work they have been doing.
But the larger, more exciting push in this course is really captured by Professor Coffman’s explanation of the ...
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