The posting below looks at best practices for teaching online.
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research on hyper bonding and icebreakers
1091 Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online - 0 views
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Why is presence so important in the online environment? When faculty actively interact and engage students in a face-to-face classroom, the class evolves as a group and develops intellectual and personal bonds. The same type of community bonding happens in an online setting if the faculty presence is felt consistently.
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"Community building is the focus of much research in online learning (Brown, 2001; Rovai, 2002; Shea, 2006)."
How Do I Invest? | Beginning Investing - 4 views
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What is investing?Any time you invest, you're devoting your own time, resources, or effort to achieve a greater goal. You can invest your weekends in a good cause, invest your intelligence in your job, or invest your time in a relationship. Just as you undertake each of these expecting good results, you invest your money in a stock, bond, or mutual fund because you think its value will appreciate over time.
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Very useful site for my course in personal finance. The site explains personal finance in very simple terms. Most anyone should be able to relate to how the information on investing is presented. Great information on topics such as investing, goal setting, active and passive management, etc., that correspond to many of my course's learning objectives.
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Planning and setting goalsInvesting is like a long car trip: A lot of planning goes into it. Before you start, you've got to ask yourself: Where are you going? (What are your financial goals?) How long is the trip? (What is your investing "time horizon"?) What should you pack? (What type of investments will you make?) How much gas will you need? (How much money will you need to reach your goals? How much can you devote to a regular investing plan?) Will you need to stop along the way? (Do you have short-term financial needs?) How long do you plan on staying? (Will you need to live off the investment in later years?
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The car trip analogy that the authors use in this article for planning & setting personal financial goals, is something everyone can relate to. This gave me some excellent ideas that will definitely be of use to me in my course since financial goal planning is another one of my learning objectives. I felt that the car trip analogy used on the site will assist with understanding the planning that goes into creating medium and short term goals was brilliant, and something everyone should be able to relate to. Creating medium and short term goals are also learning objectives in my course, (module 3). It should be an excellent way to engage students, since most everyone travels and has to put energy into planning out their trips, for example what to bring on the trip, how long it will take, how many stops there will be along the way, etc.
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Another one of my learning objectives is understanding cash management and cash flow and having the students understand how important it is to save, and put that money to work. Site has some very useful examples on how to save and put away money automatically in a disciplined fashion.
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Active and passive strategiesThe two main methods of investing in stocks are called active and passive management, and the difference between them has nothing to do with how much time you spend on the couch (or the exercise bike). Active investors (or their brokers or fund managers) pick their own stocks, bonds, and other investments. Passive investors let their holdings follow an index created by some third party.
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Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online - 2 views
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Very current and relevant readings
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Best Practice 6: Early in the term -- about week 3, ask for informal feedback on "How is the course going?" and "Do you have any suggestions?" Course evaluations have been called "post mortem" evaluations as they are done after the fact, and nothing can be changed to increase satisfaction or facilitate learning. Early feedback surveys or just informal discussions ask students to provide feedback on what is working well in a course and what might help them have a better course experience. This early feedback is done early in the course so corrections and modifications can be made. It is an easy opening for students who might have comments or suggestions or questions.
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very important
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When faculty actively interact and engage students in a face-to-face classroom, the class develops as a learning community, developing intellectual and personal bonds. The same type of bonding happens in an online setting.
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This was a great article; it gave many suggestion that seem obvious, but gave me some good ideas to use in my own site. Really helpful!
Does Sense of Community Matter? - 1 views
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The findings suggested that students felt a sense of belonging to a learning community when they took online courses in this program.
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The existing technology may still be a barrier without the supportive structure to enhance bonding within the online community
Strategies for Effective Online Group Work: Virtual Work Groups - 0 views
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It is very important to bond with group members---to break the ice, post photos, details, etc.---so that team members can know each other personally
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It is a good idea to discuss and identify the tasks at the beginning of the group work. The key is to divide the work and let individual team member’s work on their tasks
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Finally, bring together all the work and make sure it blends in. The work should flow and sound as if it was d
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How to be successful in online groups
My teacher . . . the computer? « InterACT - 0 views
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A group blog from Accomplished California Teachers: Classroom expertise for better education policy. Home About ACT ACT Publications Blogger Bios My teacher . . . the computer?
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“One of [a successful student's] key skills in school is his ability to bond with teachers. We’ve spent a generation trying to reorganize schools to make them better, but the truth is that people learn from the people they love.”
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computers and technology cannot replace the ability of skillful teachers to develop a young student’s ability to think critically, be innovative, and believe in the potential that he or she possess. A computer will never be able to provide a safe environment for a child seeking stability and support.
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Wonderful blog about the power of f2f/
WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements | Sodium | Essential information - 0 views
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Soap is generally a sodium salt of fatty acids.
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Each element's description is loaded with great information! Scroll down to see a picture of sodium and the color in which it burns (very pretty!) -
This is great kim!! : )
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The result of adding different metal salts to a burning reaction mixture of potassium chlorate and sucrose.
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click the video above to play. The video shows a (brief) demonstration of that colors that different metals burn...beautiful...Relating this to teaching and learning: students (and teachers!) are much more engaged with proper and frequent use of attention-grabbing media. I am a visual person and I know that my classroom also has visual learners. I can describe things in text or verbally until I am blue in the face, but SEEING these things in photos or on videos is what sets it apart and commits them to memory. Above is a picture of sodium in its natural state as a metal...I try to emphasize this to my students since often the examples we use in class is sodium chloride, or table salt. A silver metal bonded to a noxious green gas combines to make table salt. That's a hard thing to imagine for anyone, so I show them using this resource. I LOVE webelements.
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burning mixture of potassium
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below is a fabulous chemistry joke!
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for more comments, please return to the home page, click "Pictures" in the tabs at the top and click on "Cl"
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Of Plato and iPads: Should We Use Technology in the Classroom? | The American Conservative - 0 views
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hamper classroom relationships
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When used correctly, we have clearly seen that student interaction is possible, and even enhanced, using technology in the classroom.
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students can easily disengage, looking at other apps (some for school and others surely for entertainment), perusing websites, and checking email
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I do share the concern that my students will be off task during my lessons - however, can't they also be disengaged while taking notes in a paper notebook? I also, thankfully, have small enough class sizes that I can stand behind the room and see most computers, so it is easy to spot obviously off track students (ie someone in their email rather than a document).
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The focus in a technological classroom changes from student-to-student and/or student-to-teacher to a student-computer relationship, with the teacher occasionally breaking into this primary bond.
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When used correctly, I would disagree. My students are still interacting with each other. They are often working on the same shared document to create a product, or are talking in a small group and documenting the work in a document. More recently, I have also had students working in groups to produce songs, movies, and other multimedia products to show what they have learned. Thus, I can see in my own classroom that students are still able to interact richly with each other.
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