This grant program provides many tutorials on how to make common documents and program files accessible for individuals with disabilities. Particularly useful may be the PDF, Word and power point tutorials I have highlighted.
This white paper (Jenkins et al., 2006) identifies the three core challenges: the participation gap, the transparency problem and the ethics challenge, and shares a provisionary list of skills needed for full engagement in today's participatory culture.
We have also identified a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people
should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging
participatory culture:
Play - the capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance - the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation
and discovery
Simulation - the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real world
processes
Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking - the ability to scan one's environment and shift focus as needed to salient
details.
Distributed Cognition - the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand
mental capacities
Collective Intelligence - the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal
Judgment - the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information
sources
Transmedia Navigation - the ability to follow the flow of stories and information
across multiple modalities
Networking - the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation - the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting
multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.
One of the Little Rock 9 documents her experience; audio file
Great for students looking at voter integration; primary source file for them to include on their sites.
The concept of podcasting was proposed by Tristan Louis in October, 2000 and then it was carried out by Dave Winer, the author of the RSS format.
Winer defined a new element called enclosure which passed the address of a media file to the RSS aggregator and then, he succeeded in enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his weblog on January, 2001.
VoiceThread Slideshow - http://www.slideshare.net/edtechvision/voice-thread-for-education-presentation-660270 How to Use a VoiceThread - Basic Steps - http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/file/view/VoiceThread.pdf Tutorial Video - http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/voice/index.html Give Your Students A Voice With VoiceThread - http://www.scribd.com/doc/6521990/Give-Your-Students-a-Voice-With-Voice-Thread
A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy.
Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of some desktop software.
Visual SourceSafe is a version control system that:
Protects users from accidental file loss. Allows back-tracking to previous versions of a file. Allows branching, sharing, merging, and management of file releases. Tracks versions of entire projects. Tracks modular code (one file that is reused, or shared, by multiple projects).
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
A study regarding the difference in learning outcomes for students that use laptops in class as part of structured course work, versus students that are allowed to freely use laptops during lecture.