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William Meredith

Understanding Oral Learners - Moon - 2012 - Teaching Theology & Religion - Wiley Online... - 0 views

    • William Meredith
       
      Perhaps students need the preparation in being evaluated by both?
  • Since oral learners often learn best in dialogue with others, create opportunities for dialogue to occur. This could be in the form of group projects outside of class or small group discussions in the classroom.
  • Oral learners also learn best when learning is connected to real events, people, and struggles of life instead of learning principles that are removed from actual people and struggles.
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  • Generally, oral learners have a more difficult time with online learning. It is not that they cannot do the work; rather, they will have to work harder to stay engaged through this print-based teaching form. Many of the above recommendations still apply but they may be more difficult to provide in an online platform. Suggestions for teaching oral students online include:
  • personal contact
  • Incorporate media assignments in the classroom,
  • Provide opportunities for assignments that are engaged in real life struggles, events, and people instead of abstract principles
  • Oral learners learn best and have their lives most transformed when professors utilize oral teaching and assessment methods.
  • Whereas previous generations in U.S. seminaries assumed that print-based means of teaching and assessing were effective to produce student learning and transformation, many contemporary students prefer to learn through oral means
  • The results of this research indicate that slightly more seminary students had an oral versus print learning preference. In order to create positive learning experiences and effectively reach students, it is important to understand the difference between oral and print preferences
  • , this paper seeks to understand how learning is shaped by oral versus print preferences. In short, how do oral learners learn differently than print learners?
  • discovered that slightly over half of the students evaluated via an Orality Assessment Tool (Abney 2001) had a preference for oral learning
  • Her grades were based entirely on print-based rubrics. Part of the difference in her grading was due to learning/assessment preferences rather than intelligence. This was a breath of fresh air for her as she was finally starting to understand herself and her learning preferences better.
Joan McCabe

Castle Learning Online - 0 views

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    Website for creating tests/assignments that pull questions from old regents exams and keeps track of score for you. Provides instant feedback to students.
Diana Cary

How Well Do Your Students Know Each Other? | Responsive Classroom - 0 views

  • Great teachers work on building a sense of community in their classrooms all year long
  • They understand that helping students build relationships with each other is a key to creating an optimal learning environment.
  • You can support children's relationships in many ways. Let students share about their hobbies, interests, and passions at Morning Meeting or in connection with academic topics or assignments
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  • ry brainstorming lunch conversation topics with your class, assigning lunch partners, and then taking a few minutes for sharing what partners learned about each other after lunch.
  • Arrival time can be another opportunity to check in with students and give them a few minutes to touch base with each other.
  • Games can be a fast, fun, and effective way for a group to get to know each other better, too. Here are a few to try:
  • This, That, Neither, Both
  • Four Corners
  • Venn Diagram
  • Human Bingo
  • How Well Do Your Students Know Each Other?
Diana Cary

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

  • Traditional course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, or WebCT provide integrated solutions for faculty to post course content, assignments, and student grades.
  • They are often document-centered, allowing instructors to post PowerPoint slides, Word and PDF files, and other course content for students to access. In addition, many course management systems allow students to log in to check grades, submit assignments, or take exams electronically. The responsibility lies with the instructor to create the course content for students to download or access.  
lkryder

Differentiating Instruction: Meeting Students Where They Are, Teaching Today, Glencoe O... - 0 views

  • Break assignments into smaller, more manageable parts that include structured directions for each part.
    • lkryder
       
      I see this as critical and that is why I have 1 week modules for my course where the students have more opportunity to - iterative opportunities - to practice and receive feedback on our core concept of analysis of works of art. Smaller chunks and tighter feedback loops have made it possible to create many ways for students to succeed, rather than have them struggle for longer periods of time on the same thing over and over again.
  • Use a variety of assessment strategies, including performance-based and open-ended assessment. Balance teacher-assigned and student-selected projects. Offer students a choice of projects that reflect a variety of learning styles and interests. Make assessment an ongoing, interactive process.
  • Establish stations for inquiry-based, independent learning activities.
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  • Provide access to a variety of materials which target different learning preferences and reading abilities.
  • Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences, and that the greatest learning occurs when students are pushed slightly beyond the point where they can work without assistance. This point differs for students who are working below grade level and for those who are gifted in a given area.
  • Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences, and that the greatest learning occurs when students are pushed slightly beyond the point where they can work without assistance. This point differs for students who are working below grade level and for those who are gifted in a given area.
  • Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences, and that the greatest learning occurs when students are pushed slightly beyond the point where they can work without assistance. This point differs for students who are working below grade level and for those who are gifted in a given area.
  • Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences, and that the greatest learning occurs when students are pushed slightly beyond the point where they can work without assistance. This point differs for students who are working below grade level and for those who are gifted in a given area.
  • Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences, and that the greatest learning occurs when students are pushed slightly beyond the point where they can work without assistance. This point differs for students who are working below grade level and for those who are gifted in a given area.
sherrilattimer

How Much "Group" is there in Online Group Work? | The Sloan Consortium - 0 views

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    The ability to work in groups across time and space has become a frequent requirement for the workplace and is becoming increasingly more common in higher education, but there is a surprising lack of research on how online groups work. This study applies analytical approaches used in studies of face-to-face classroom "talk" to multiple groups in two asynchronous online high school courses. We investigated two activities focused on group problem-solving styles-one for deciding how to work as a group, and a second for responding to the content of the assignment. We found successful groups to have benefited from directive leadership, and the division of labor amongst most groups to be in parallel rather than collaborative.
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    Link to the pdf
dkiesel

http://languages.oberlin.edu/ctie/blog/2012/09/23/size-matters-how-much-reading-to-assi... - 0 views

I used this article to support my claim about teachers assigning too much reading. It is similar like having teachers who give lectures that require a ton of writing and then quiz you before you ha...

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alexandra m. pickett

Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith - 1 views

    • b malczyk
       
      For the Moduel 4 assignment I explored and practiced using Jing. I know Alex has used it many times in our course. I will use it in the beginning of my course to help student get familiar with blackboard. Many of my students in previous semesters are unfamilar with blackboard. Having a screencast video can help them to feel comfortable with blackboard and help to resolve many questions that students will have right from the beginning.
  • Take Screenshots: Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen Record Screencasts: Record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video
  • Jing eliminates a lot of phone and email time
    • b malczyk
       
      In previous semester I received several emails at the beginning of the course about how to use the online discussion boards, how to upload files, how to download article etc. Having a video screencast can allow students to watch step by step how to do all of these thing.
    • b malczyk
       
      In previous semester I received several emails at the beginning of the course about how to use the online discussion boards, how to upload files, how to download article etc. Having a video screencast can allow students to watch step by step how to do all of these thing.
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  • Give your students the information they need
    • b malczyk
       
      For the Moduel 4 assignment I explored and practiced using Jing. I know Alex has used it many times in our course. I will use it in the beginning of my course to help student get familiar with blackboard. Many of my students in previous semesters are unfamilar with blackboard. Having a screencast video can help them to feel comfortable with blackboard and help to resolve many questions that students will have right from the beginning.
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    jing- screen shots on to use blackboard
Jessica M

Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School. - 0 views

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    Students are often motivated by the idea of getting rewarded with a grade to complete assignments to the best of their abilities.
sschwartz03

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

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    discuss the importance of encouraging higher level thinking skills in online assignments
Melissa Pietricola

Differentiated Instruction in Online Environments - 0 views

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    Details how to differentiate instruction in the online world. Suggestions include offering a variety of product possibilites in assignments, and also including an online learning quiz for your students to determine and report back what their learning style is.
Melissa Pietricola

EBSCOhost: Formative peer assessment in a CSCL environment: a case study - 0 views

  • feedback rules was one of the assessment tools
  • Results showed that students’ attitude towards peer assessment was positive and that assessment assignments had added value. However, not all students fulfilled all assessment assignments
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    Peer Revie adds value and increases positive attitudes towards learning.
Bill Hooper

Economics Interactive Tutorial: Elasticity - 0 views

  • In each of the following examples, choose whether you would expect demand to be elastic or inelastic. In none of these examples will the demand be as elastic as the demand for gasoline at a particular gas station on a street with many gas stations. Drivers will flock to a gas station with a price a few pennies below its neighbors' prices, and will abandon a gas stations with a price a few pennies higher. Choose "Elastic demand" if you think that buyers will buy somewhat less if the price goes up, or somewhat more if the price goes down. Choose "Inelastic demand" if you think that the buyers will buy about the same amount if the price goes up or down. An unconscious bleeding man is brought to a hospital emergency room. A patient is given a presciption for a drug to control high blood pressure. The patient's insurance doesn't cover drugs, so the patient must pay out of pocket. A hospital in-patient has insurance that will pay all charges. What would the demand be like for nurse-administered propoxyphene (Darvon), a pain-reliever? A senior signs up with a managed care plan to get the Medicare drug benefit. Even though the senior is locked in for a year, the plan can, at any time, change which drugs it will pay for, based on the plan's judgement about a drug's effectiveness and price relative to other drugs that do about the same thing. For members of that plan, what might the demand for the Darvon be like? Darvon's cheapest alternative might be acetomenophen (Tylenol) in this case. A family has a high-deductible health insurance policy. The effect is that the family pays for primary care office visits out of pocket. Now, one of their children has an earache. What would their demand be like for an office visit to get this checked out? In general, if the decision-maker has an incentive to spend less on some product and if there is an adequate substitute for that product, then demand is more ...
    • Bill Hooper
       
      This area is a perfect tool for the student to self-assess whether or not he/she grasps the concept of elasticty. The student reponds to each scenario and is provided with an immediate solution to confirm their answer.
  • Health Savings Accounts -- The Best Way to Make Demand More Elastic?
    • Bill Hooper
       
      This section would be the perfect way to take the concept of elasticity and apply it to a current event. It could also be an excellent prereading for a discussion or blog.
  • Elasticity
    • Bill Hooper
       
      This initial section provides a nice summary of elasticity and would be useful to assign as a reading to provide background at the beginning of the module.
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    • Bill Hooper
       
      Terrific website to use as part of a short unit on elasticity. It provides all the basic background information, provides a self-assessment, and applies it to a current event. Students should have no trouble getting some good information out of this site.
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    This is a very cool interative activity for students to use in their learning about the concept of elasticity.
Diane Gusa

The Technology Source Archives - Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Le... - 0 views

  • Principle 5: Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task Lesson for online instruction: Online courses need deadlines. One course we evaluated allowed students to work at their own pace throughout the semester, without intermediate deadlines. The rationale was that many students needed flexibility because of full-time jobs. However, regularly-distributed deadlines encourage students to spend time on tasks and help students with busy schedules avoid procrastination. They also provide a context for regular contact with the instructor and peers.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      Set clear deadlines for work to create comfortable online learning environments. Helps students keep themselves on task and enhances learning.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      I considered doing this, but was not sure...I noticed Alex did this when she would say "read Ian's post" or EXCELLENT! aand I wanted to check out what was said even more.
  • Allowing students to choose project topics incorporates diverse views into online courses.
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  • Communicating high expectations for student performance is essential.
  • give challenging assignments.
  • communicate high expectations is to provide examples or models for students to follow, along with comments explaining why the examples are good.
  • publicly praising exemplary work communicates high expectations. Instructors do this by calling attention to insightful or well-presented student postings.
Kristina Lattanzio

Well-Tempered Clavier: analysis, scores, and digital sound - 0 views

    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      Hover over the keyboard to get a list of fuges by J.S. Bach. Click on one and an excerpt from that fugue will play. Move over to play movie and a new screen will come up. The entire fugue will play while scrolling through the music. A listening analysis map will also show and will move while the piece is playing.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      Click on each of the titles to read a description of what each is: prelude, clavier, fugue, well-tempered, symbol, history.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      The pieces in this site could be used during various discussion assignments for Music Theory and Analysis course. They can also be used to show examples of the concepts in many of the course module activities and how they are used in real music.
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    This site includes all of the Fugues from the "Well-Tempered Clavier", a book of preludes and fuges by J.S. Bach. Each fugue is played and includes a movie of the music and a timeline of analysis to go along.
Jessica Backus-Foster

5. Increasing Time on Task: 7 Principles Collection of TLT Ideas - 0 views

  • helping communicate to students how much time and energy you and your institution expect them to invest in their work
  • the ability to store work and work-in-process on the school's network
  • ability to send file attachments with email has made it easy for students to send me a draft of their work for feedback at any time.
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  • With randomly generated homework problems, immediate feedback, and the opportunity to try again, students view the homework almost like a game with the challenge of getting all the problems correct. As a result, they seem to spend more time than with paper and pencil homework.
  • availability of many research materials on-line and through electronic databases to which libraries subscribe should enable students to access what they need from their homes or their dorms at time which are convenient to them
  • “capturing students’ beer time
  • streaming video versions of all lectures
  • our approach to students is to encourage students to do what works for them (but to be sure to do it!)
  • Access to the Internet has changed research possibilities. Students have access to much more information faster than in the past.
  • Hot links to articles and other readings
  • E-mail messages are quickly replacing the live visit to professors and probably encouraging more students to talk to professors since it is less scary to them to write rather than face professors face to face.
  • Searching for journal articles using electronic bibliographic databases has been a major time saver for students
  • electronic reserves at the library
  • Use of the Calendar in WebCT to promote planning by students. Can also use the Calendar to highlight particular content or web resources to be ready for in-class discussion. Remind students in different media such as in-class and on-line about the expected completion dates for projects. (Virginia Arp, Gannon University)
  • "2 hours outside to 1 hour in class
  • Some may be spending more time because they’re unfamiliar with the medium. Some may be spending more time because instructions for assignments are not well-written for online use Some may be spending more time because they want to: the assignments are more interesting. And so on. Depending on the reasons, “spending more time” may be a) a triumph, b) a problem to be fixed, c) a temporary situation to be endured.
  • Going 'paperless" has saved me much time on task
  • publisher of one of our texts provides a tutorial CD and website as well as online course support
Michael Lucatorto

Why So Much Emphasis on Writing? - Chapter 1: College Writing - Online Guide to Writing... - 0 views

  • Writing is an active thinking process, a way to develop new knowledge for yourself.
  • As you write, you are recording how your mind works and stimulating your thoughts and ideas. The written record of your thinking becomes part of your new knowledge.
  • Although college writing assignments differ somewhat in emphasis from your workplace writing, the methods and strategies these assignments teach you will be useful in your workplace writing.
JJ Wagner

Module 4 assignment - Wagner - 0 views

    • JJ Wagner
       
      Congruent triangles section is more for Translations. Great resources though, especially rotations which are the toughest for students to grasp.
    • JJ Wagner
       
      This page shows examples of parallel lines cut by a transversal (alt int angles, alt ext angles, etc). Will help students to prove parallel lines given these known angles.
    • JJ Wagner
       
      REALLY great applet to show that the exterior angles of ANY polygon add up to 360 degrees.
Donna Angley

MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.755 Writing and Reading Short... - 0 views

  • Student Stories
    • Donna Angley
       
      Love that the instructor includes student stories as an example.
Kimberly Barss

What does "student-centered" mean to you and . . . - SLN Faculty Online - 0 views

  • I don't think of my job as student-centered, nor is it teacher- or self-centered, but rather, learnING-centered.  There's a job to do that's shared by the whole class together.
    • Kimberly Barss
       
      This is extremely interesting! Especially that learning and knowledge creation is a shared responsibility by the entire class.
  • The main thing is to focus the students on the practical value of what they're learning by situating the assignments in real-world tasks, where the purpose is to provide something valuable to real people. 
    • Kimberly Barss
       
      again here is the notion of authenticity!
  • In my early years teaching, I was confronted by a graduate student who asked a question which I was not sure of the answer or how to answer it.  When asked by my director how I was doing I mentioned the incident to him.  He indicated that I should not be doing any research on this but the student should seek out the answer to his question.  Later in the class the same student asked a question; I wasn't sure of the answer and suggested to him that he research his question and make a presentation to the class on what he found.  I told him where he could research his question, indicated a couple situations in the real world he could look at.  The next week he presented and commented to the class that the assignment I gave him was very interesting and rewarding for him.  I was gratified, regained my feeling of self-worth, and had a student and class that found the results appropo.  This action was "student-centered".
    • Kimberly Barss
       
      What a great example!! What do you guys think of this? Does anyone use it in their classes now?
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