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Barbara Lindsey

Changes to Electronic Course Reserves - 0 views

  • You can tag items of special interest
  • your students will be able to sort by those tags. They will also be able to add their own personal tags.
  • You can see how many times each reserve item was accessed and which student accessed it.
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  • Your students can choose to receive emails when new items are added to your reserve list.
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      RSS!
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      We'll use this brand-new information from HBL to practice using Diigo's tools!
Barbara Lindsey

Twitter / @clifmims: We have greatly overestima ... - 0 views

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      The power of these new tools/environments has to do with the ways in which it allows us to connect with others.
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UDI Community - 0 views

  • Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) is an approach to teaching that consists of the proactive design and use of inclusive instructional strategies that benefit a broad range of learners including students with disabilities.
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      This sentence is key to understanding the importance of UDI in practice.
  • One of the important aspects of UD is that its inclusive elements benefit all users, not just those with disabilities.
  • By providing faculty with a framework and tools for designing inclusive college instruction, the dialogue surrounding college students with disabilities changes from a focus on compliance, accommodations, and nondiscrimination to an emphasis on teaching and learning.
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  • The nine Principles of UDI
  • provide a framework for faculty reflection
  • They can inform a variety of teaching issues and approaches ranging from assessing student learning, to broadening learning experiences, to considering how an inclusive classroom climate can be established
  • The word universal refers to a flexible design that is specifically created to be used in diverse ways.
  • UDI focuses on many elements of pedagogy and encourages examination of teaching including the daily tasks of planning and delivering instruction as well as assessing student learning.
  • Visitors to the Facultyware web site can use these products as examples of how the Principles of Universal Design for Instruction © can be applied to the task of designing inclusive learning environments and experiences for today's diverse college classrooms.
Barbara Lindsey

Laptops should be disruptive of traditional education « Moving at the Speed o... - 0 views

  • The question should not be "Does technology fit into my traditional way of teaching my class in high school?" but rather "How can I modify and further improve the learning environment, ongoing assessment methods, and opportunities I provide students to interact with each other and our curriculum?"
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      Making those connections to communities
  • We need to be asking and analyzing WHAT THE STUDENTS DID AND ARE DOING with their laptops, and perhaps even more importantly WHAT ARE TEACHERS ASKING STUDENTS TO DO with their laptops.
  • we have to be asking what teachers are doing with their laptops, and asking students to do with them. The importance of asking this question is vital! If teachers are merely "accomodating" learning with digital tools, rather than "transforming" or "infomating" the ways they are teaching and inviting students to learn-- then the laptops may indeed be a waste of money and energy.
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  • I would speculate that the problem here is likely not so much the implementation timeline or the scope of the district's 1:1 laptop initiative, but rather the TEACHERS themselves. Are teachers teaching differently, and are they receiving the TIME and SUPPORT they need to teach differently? Is the district administration encouraging the teachers to TEACH DIFFERENTLY, or just to teach the same but with laptops?
Barbara Lindsey

Learning 2.0 « Beyond WebCT: Integrating Social Networking Tools Into Languag... - 0 views

  • While I was reading this article I was very critical and was wondering whether this course was going to be just lecturing by simply recording and showing the lesson and how these two professors could assess so many students in terms of time and in terms to have an assessment which would not make them cheat as this is an online environment. Well, in the last part of the article the answer is clearly expressed they do show a recording but on the online lesson they actually use the lesson to discuss project in smaller groups. Do not personally know how many smaller groups they would create and of how many members however the idea is excellent to me.
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      What role should communities and collaboration play in a course of this size? Do you have the same concerns that Rosario has about individualization? What about Eda's suggestions for best use of technology?
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What Makes Siri Special? | PCWorld - 0 views

  • Siri still makes mistakes. With Siri, however, speech recognition is a conversation, and people are accustomed to dealing with misunderstandings in conversation.
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      Natural language processing, speech recognition as conversation-this could be an excellent support tool for language learners.
  • Apple developers have "actually taken some of the capabilities out currently, so I fully expect it to evolve quickly," SRI's Winarsky says. One of the features Apple removed was the ability to book a table at a restaurant automatically. It seems likely that Apple is inking deals and polishing features as fast as it can to restore that functionality to the app.
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    Think about the possibilities for use with language learners!
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