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Robert Ferguson

Coming Soon… Educational Games Development MOOCs on edX | MIT STEP - 0 views

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RobOTPP626 online teaching educational games gamification_of_education

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  • Robert Ferguson on 08 Mar 14
     
    Announcement of upcoming MOOC to teach how to combine digital games and educational technology including theory, game design, game design for education and education tech. Learn to create your own educational games.
Barbara Warnock

20 tips and resources for using learning technology in higher education | Higher Educat... - 0 views

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Diigo education

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  • Barbara Warnock on 07 Feb 14
     
    tips for using technology for higher education
Barbara Warnock

Technology and Higher Education Page 2 | Education.com - 1 views

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Diigo education

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  • Garrison’s recent research has also focused on blended learning. “There is a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s even more effective than other learning environments
  • Barbara Warnock on 07 Feb 14
     
    Blended courses
Heidi Wright

Wimba Classroom for Higher Education - 0 views

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  • 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
  • Heidi Wright on 19 Feb 14
     
    Wimba is the leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Wimba is a virtual classroom environment.
Heidi Wright

MIndGenius - 0 views

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  • MindGenius is the ability to brainstorm and capture ideas, either individually or in class, and create a visual representation.
  • Heidi Wright on 19 Feb 14
     
    MindGenius Mind Mapping Software for Education is used in universities and colleges, schools, assisted learning and by students for collaborative learning, study, research, projects and thesis planning. Excellent tool for brainstorming to capture ideas! Link specifically for educators. Free download-30 day trial
anonymous

WOCN Image Library: gallery - 0 views

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wounds education

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  • anonymous on 24 Feb 14
     
    This site offers great wound images for educational purposes, I contacted them and they gave me permission to use their images for educational purposes.  If you are squeamish, open carefully.
vicwilburn

Facebook Education Group - 0 views

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  • vicwilburn on 03 Mar 14
     
    Facebook Education Page for how educators can best use Facebook
Robert Ferguson

Augmented Reality in Education - Augmented Reality Presentations - 0 views

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RobOTPP626 augmented reality education presentations

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  • Robert Ferguson on 09 Mar 14
     
    Wiki site that has many references and presentations on augmented reality and how to utilize augmented reality in education.
Robert Ferguson

The Virtual Staffroom - 0 views

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RobOTPP626 research educational_echnology podcasts education

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  • Robert Ferguson on 05 Mar 14
     
    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.
anonymous

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

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higher education games education classroom

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  • anonymous on 24 Mar 14
     
    This is an article discussing the use of games in education.
Angie Davis

What is Glogster edu? | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teac... - 0 views

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  • Glog Presentations! Share student or teacher projects in Class, School, District or Beyond Once projects are complete, the teacher can share students’ work in a variety of educational settings. Glogs can be embedded in a blog, wiki, or web page or shared with others using Glogster EDU’s innovative presentation capabilities. Choose exemplar student projects and demonstrate students’ achievements with parents, administrators, students, and other educators.
  • Expand Digital Literacy Glogster EDU creates a digital learning environment, where teachers and students learn technology in an easy to use and scalable format that simplifies the educational process and produces assessable multi-modal results across the curriculum spectrum.
  • Promote Independent Problem Solving Glogster EDU creates an adaptable and innovative learning environment for all learners, regardless of age, gender, culture or learning style. Students are encouraged to be independent, inventive problem solving and lifelong learners.
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  • Provide Differentiated Instructional Activities Glogster EDU’s differentiated format promotes a positive balance between acquisition of factual knowledge, the mastery of concepts and skills, and the imaginative use of multi-media and relevant Internet resources.
  • Heidi Wright on 27 Jan 14
     
    Glogster can be shared by students on a wiki for online learning
  • Angie Davis on 09 Mar 14
     
    Another poster creation app with different formats, allows multimedia tech to be used, drag and drop features for easy creation. Similar to infogr.am but maybe with more flexibility.
Elizabeth Wyble

Faculty Focus - 0 views

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teaching learning online teaching web2.0

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  • 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
  • Elizabeth Wyble on 04 Feb 14
     
    Great resource for teachers for online teaching or F2F or hybrid, great teaching ideas
  • Heidi Wright on 05 Feb 14
     
    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
Heidi Wright

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

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  • 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.
  • Heidi Wright on 19 Feb 14
     
    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.
Heidi Wright

Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? - 0 views

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  • Heidi Wright on 27 Feb 14
     
    We're all born with deep natural capacities for creativity, and systems of mass education tend to suppress them. It is increasingly urgent to cultivate these capacities and to rethink the dominant approaches to education to make sure that we do. I watched his first famous video and this is a follow up...will make you pause and worthwhile to introduce to students.
Robert Ferguson

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

www.emergingedtech.com

RobOTPP626 techniques tips screencasts technology web2.0 online teaching

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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.
Robert Ferguson

Webinar Recording: Massively Multiplayer Online Games As Effective Tools For Education ... - 0 views

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RobOTPP626 multiplayer educational games

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    MMO gaming and education
Robert Ferguson

Pics4Learning | Free photos for education - 0 views

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RobOTPP626 photos education resources copyright

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    Provides free image and multimedia library for education.
Robert Ferguson

educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - 1 views

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RobOTPP626 Blooms_taxonomy Digital_taxonomy

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  • Robert Ferguson on 11 Mar 14
     
    Does a great job relating Web 2.0 technologies to Bloom's Taxonomy in order to facilitate the use of technology to support the educational experience.
Heidi Wright

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

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  • 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.
  • Heidi Wright on 20 Jan 14
     
    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...
Heidi Wright

A List of the Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers | Fluency21 – Com... - 0 views

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  • Heidi Wright on 23 Feb 14
     
    Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field. Over 20 different websites listed to use as tools.
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