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vicwilburn

Around the World is 45 Minutes: Global Perspectives on Distance Education - 0 views

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    Online teaching perspectives
vicwilburn

Icebreakers: Getting Everyone to Contribute at the Start of a Successful Event - 0 views

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    Find out how ice breakers can make or break an event. Articles and videos offer advice on great ways to kick start your class
vicwilburn

Curt Bonk on Extreme Learning - 0 views

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    Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning. Keynote presentation at the BETT Conference Session: Global Voices in Education Technology, ExCel, BETT Arena, London, UK.
vicwilburn

Adding Jumbo Motivation to Online Courses - 0 views

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    Curt Bonk's talk on what is needed to motivate and engage learners.
vicwilburn

Kid President - 0 views

shared by vicwilburn on 27 Feb 14 - No Cached
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    Fun and creative way to open up class. Especially like the speech on teachers and students.
anonymous

Resources by Topic - Limb Loss Resource Center - Amputee Coalition - 0 views

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    This is a great resource for educating students about amputee management - prosthetics, positioning, images, etc.  
anonymous

CC Search - 0 views

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    I think most of us know about Creative Commons but this site allows you to search various popular websites for content that you can share and edit for educational use.  
anonymous

WOCN Image Library: gallery - 0 views

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    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.
Amber Boyd

10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation - 0 views

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    by Terry Heick For the Google Generation, information isn't scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away. I've written before about how Google impacts the way students think . This post is less about students, and more about how planning resources like standards and curriculum maps might respond accordingly.
Amber Boyd

How Do My Students Think: Diagnosing Student Thinking - 0 views

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    Teachers and researchers generally refer to preinstructional knowledge as preconceptions. Pre-assessment of student academic skills and student knowledge may not accurately reflect actual pupil skill and knowledge.
Amber Boyd

Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy - 0 views

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    This is the official website of Visible Body, creator of human anatomy and physiology learning products, including detailed models of all human body sytems. Products can be purchased on this site, at the iTunes App Store, and through Google Play.
Heidi Wright

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

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    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.
Heidi Wright

11 Free Tools to Teach Human Anatomy in 3D - 1 views

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    11 different websites are listed to explore teaching various aspects of human anatomy in 3D.
Heidi Wright

NEA - Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning - 0 views

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Dawn Miller

Hot Potatoes Home Page - 0 views

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      online game - hot potatoes; Create MC, short answer, etc
Dawn Miller

Educational Games - 1 views

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      Games - Nobel prize
Dawn Miller

Free! New SmartArt graphics available - PowerPoint - Office.com - 0 views

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      SmartGraphics from Mircosoft for presentations
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.
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.
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