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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
virtual classroom environment with robust features that includes audio, video,
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Wimba Classroom has been carefully architected to give learners access to
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Wimba Classroom provides a flexible venue for instructors to meet, learn and
collaborate online.
Wimba is the leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Wimba is a virtual classroom environment.