1. Ensure that all readings, articles, presentations and videos all course material are available in the course management system. 2. “Create a weekly reading assessment that asks students to formulate or discuss the most important things you wanted them to get out the this week’s articles.” 3. “Make your syllabus a living document and let […]
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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools
This looks nice: interesting subject and a nice piece of software which I have mentioned before … Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools by Pip cleaves on Prezi. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools on Prezi
Moodle -on Prezi
This in a sense showcases Prezi and also Moodle … two in one. Moodle by Tomaz Lasic on Prezi.
Instructional Immediacy and the Seven Principles: Strategies for Facilitating Online Courses
Here’s the summary, at one level, no surprises. The typical issue of technology is that it is ‘fetishised’: it becomes an end in itself. We need to keep in view that it must assist good mathetogogy. What does the research in instructional immediacy and the practical suggestions innate to Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) Seven Principles […]
ITCs in teaching: useful stuff from Denver!
<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { color: #0000ff } –> See The CU Online Handbook University of Colorado, Denver http://bit.ly/IOUfc There are a number of articles here. I just looked at a handful that looked as if they were likely to be helpful to me […]
Content Management Systems constrain …
few faculty use these features, or even adapt their CMS very much, despite the several customization options. This is because most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web–based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web–novice faculty […]
What’s in a Name?
The intriguing idea here is that church names may affect the character of the churches so named. As against the advice to Romeo about the name ‘Montague’, My experience confirms a theme found in storytelling through the ages that people and institutions become their names and live them out in daily activities. I have seen […]
RU Kidding? Research Finds That Chatspeak Has No Impact On Children’s Spelling Ability
As one of those who are skeptical of claims or concerns about ‘worsening language habits’, this was a somewhat vindicating bit of research to find. I tend to think that the more ways of expression people have the more they are building cognitive capacity. But in this article not only is there an intriguing finding, […]
Epidemic Of Student Cheating Can Be Cured With Changes In Classroom Goals
In some ways, this is no surprise but it is good to note how the research is stacking up in favour of not producing a climate which would encourage ‘teaching to the test’. Research has consistently shown that cheating is more likely to occur in classrooms that focus on performance – getting the best possible […]
Missional family tree
From LeadershipJournal via Alan Hirsch. The image is way bigger than shown; you might want to zoom in on it.