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Heidi Wright

Wimba Classroom for Higher Education - 0 views

  • virtual classroom environment with robust features that includes audio, video, application sharing and content display. Its pedagogical design and ease-of-use ensures that educators and students engage as if they were meeting face-to-face.
  • Wimba Classroom has been carefully architected to give learners access to teachers, courses, and content beyond the four walls of a physical classroom or campus.  Learning objectives are in fact enhanced when teachers enrich their content by using interactive features like instant polling, application sharing, or the electronic whiteboard. 
  • Wimba Classroom provides a flexible venue for instructors to meet, learn and collaborate online. 
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  • appealing to different learning styles
  • Any camera your computer supports - so does Wimba. 
  • Wimba now offers advanced security capabilities
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    Wimba is the leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Wimba is a virtual classroom environment.
Heidi Wright

57 Free Digital Interactives For All Teachers… Plus 8 Free Mobile Apps | 21 st C... - 1 views

  • Venn Diagram - The Venn Diagram app allows users to compare and contrast information in a visually appealing way. Sounds like a 21st Century Skill useful from fine arts to applied science.
  • Doodle Splash - Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text. What a wonderful way for students to explore concepts in all subject areas.
  • Flip Book - The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets. This applies across the curriculum.
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  • ReadWriteThink Notetaker - Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information. After all… almost every class involves some note taking.
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    Welcome to a post that examines an amazing free collections of educational digital interactive programs and apps. You are sure to find something that will fit your classroom in the very near future...
anonymous

Discussion Forum - Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

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    This is a resource regarding web 2.0 uses for the classroom.  There are videos/webcasts to watch, forums to participate in the opportunity to join the group.  
Robert Ferguson

Flipped Classrooms: New CRLT Resources | CRLT - 1 views

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    This page is specific to the flipped classroom concept. The entire website provides resources for educators on classroom analytics, inclusive classrooms, preparing to teach, etc. Lots of information.
Elizabeth Wyble

Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • include opportunity for practice and informal feedback?
  • student-centered learning
  • cutting-edge approach
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  • read
  • read far more like a legal document than an introduction and a guide to a classroom
  • experience.
  • students harbor some fairly serious misconceptions that undermine their efforts to learn. He identifies four of them
  • to learn. He identifies four of them.
  • Students want their courses to be convenient, easy to use, responsive, and accessible so that the technology does not
  • get in the way of learning
  • when teaching it
  • Even so, many professors feel uncertain
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    Great resource for teachers for online teaching or F2F or hybrid, great teaching ideas
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    effective teaching strategies, college classroom, Teaching Professor, online classroom, higher education professional development, faculty development resources, higher education publications, online teaching tips, higher education assessment, higher education trends, teaching with technology, distance learning best practices, college classroom management
vicwilburn

Colleges Go Proactive with Flipped Classrooms - 0 views

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    Has a nice video on flipped classrooms
anonymous

Making Adventure Games in the Classroom - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 1 views

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    This is an article discussing the use of games in education.
Robert Ferguson

Classroom Aid | Quiz Tools for 21st Century Teachers - 1 views

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    Reference site that provides many quizzing tools available for educational purposes.
Heidi Wright

Digital and Virtual Field Trips - 1 views

  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on
  • virtual field trips
  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my
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  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my
  • can I integrate virtual field trips into my
  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my classroom
  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on a virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google for topics such as "wetlands virtual field trip".
  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on a
  • you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google for
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google
  • integrate virtual field trips
  • locate virtual field trips
  • virtual field trip.
  • Many websites provide panorama images or other ways to fly over places. Explore examples below:
  • There are lots of cool ways to use virtual field trips in the classroom. Apple Learning Interchange has lots of great examples.
Heidi Wright

NEA - Higher Education Best Practices - Teaching & Learning - 0 views

  • Getting Students to Do the Readings Few things are more frustrating to a college teacher than to begin a discussion of the readings assigned during a previous class and discover that a significant number of students haven’t done the readings. This issue’s Thriving in Academe offers encouraging news: There are classroom strategies for ensuring that students keep up with class readings—and students actually welcome them
  • Getting Students to Do the Readings
  • Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning The concept that one size fits all doesn’t have much of a place in education since we’ve begun to understand better how brains work and people learn.
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  • Teaching Context--A Map for Course Design The classes we teach don’t exist in a vacuum, argues the author of this issue’s Thriving in Academe, so it makes sense to pay attention to the world around you as you plan your semester’s work. You can create a better
  • Mentoring: Functions, Roles, and Interactions The world of academe can be a bewildering place for new faculty members. When it is, they often look to their senior colleagues for help. This time-honored practice—mentoring—has both formal and informal aspects, and, when done right, benefits both mentors and their protégés. This issue’s Thriving in Academe looks at the rewards and requirements for both parties.
  • Rethinking Expectations About Assignments It's frustrating for professors when students haven't done their out-of-class assignment. Too often, the students just don't take their homework seriously. But there's hope for frustrated professors, this issue's Thriving in Academe authors claim. Make sure your students know why the assignment is important and try to connect it to their lives.
  • Clickers in the classroom?
  • We're used to engaging students in the real world, now it's time to engage them in social online spaces like Facebook and Twitter
  • environment for learning when you consider institutional and departmental characteristics in making plans.
  • Even more important is to share control of the course with your students.
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    There are over a dozen articles to access on the home web page which pertain to teaching in higher education. Check out the topics and then read one of the articles. The article titled, Helping students embrace deeper learning" is interesting.
Robert Ferguson

EmergingEdTech. Education Technology. Internet and instructional technologies for teach... - 0 views

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    great resource website. Has a lot of How-to videos, free web 2.0 resource links, and educational opportunities for blended and flipped classrooms.
vicwilburn

Twitter in a Higher Education Classroom - 0 views

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    Fantastic blog about using Twitter from a college professor
vicwilburn

Colleges Sharpen Educational Experience Classroom Technology - 0 views

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    Interesting upgrades in science!
Angie Davis

SurveyMonkey: Free online survey software & questionnaire tool - 0 views

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    Free tool for soliciting feedback regarding the course or to schedule a synchronous classroom session.
Robert Ferguson

The Virtual Staffroom - 0 views

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    From the website: The Virtual Staffroom is a community podcasting project run by Australian educator Chris Betcher. The basic premise of the podcast is to hear from leading educators about how they use technology in their classrooms.
Elizabeth Wyble

Faculty Connection - Home - 0 views

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    Info for teachers to use advanced web technology in the classroom, how to's, etc.
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