Setting up rigid and realistic goals based on the learner's competence, therefore, is more effective than setting easy goals.
Motivation - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 0 views
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Performance goal: I want to avoid mistakes so I can get a good grade.
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Mastery goal: Understanding the class materials is more important than earning a high grade, and that's why I work hard to learn. My performance is better than it was at the beginning of the semester.
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Bringing Life to Online Instruction with Humor - 1 views
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Based on our experience using humor as an instructional strategy in traditional and online courses, we explain how instructors can incorporate humor into online courses
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Of the personal dimensions of teaching, humor is the most human of them all. T
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Humor is not a pedagogical panacea, and the mere inclusion of humor will not assure that learning will occur. I
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"The challenge for instructors teaching online courses is to learn to use humor to create interesting and inviting virtual learning environments while minimizing any potential pitfalls of humor as an instructional device. In a commentary noting the need for humor in online courses, James (2004) observed that "Because humor is one of the major traits of the best, most effective teachers, it is a characteristic that all teachers should want to hone, practice, and nurture, regardless of medium" "
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Thinking back to our conversation on humor. (I was only a lurker in that conversation, but maybe now I have time to revisit this idea). Hope this adds to your thoughts.
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explain how instructors can incorporate humor in an online course, the enhancement humor can bring, guidelines for locating, selecting, developing, and integrating humor into an online courses, and examples of humor in various online components.
One True Media - slideshows, free photo sharing, facebook video, slide shows, Facebook ... - 1 views
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Love this! I have tried it out. There are some limitations, but what do you expect for free?! Gives a much, much better deal than Animoto (less than a minute!). The free version provides 100MB of space, but you can't add captions, only music. There is a way around this, though. Students can use Audacity to record and edit their audio, and then import into OneTrueMedia. This solves the problem of OneTrueMedia not having multi-track facilities to record narration and music. Then, just use OneTrueMedia's photo and video capacities. Right now, I will look around for something which allows inserting captions. For the time being, OneTrueMedia is superb.
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