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Barbara Lindsey

Faculty Development Programs - UConn - 0 views

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itl uconn faculty development

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 17 Feb 10
     
    The Institute for Teaching & Learning offers a full range of faculty development programs to all UConn faculty, at all of the UConn campuses. The formats range from individual consultation services to departmental workshops, from book groups, and learning communities to campus wide teaching institutes. Topics span the continuum from purely pedagogical to purely technical and everything in between.  All services are free and confidential.
Barbara Lindsey

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and ... - Google Books - 0 views

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higher ed critique book

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    Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy of higher education have remained the same for one hundred years, while faculties and student bodies have radically changed and technology has drastically transformed the way people produce and disseminate knowledge. At a time when competition to get into and succeed in college has never been more intense, universities are providing a less-useful education. Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, The Marketplace of Ideas examines what professors and students--and all the rest of us--might be better off without, while assessing what it is worth saving in our traditional university institutions.
Celeste Arrieta

Collaborative Editing « Beyond WebCT: Integrating Social Networking Tools Int... - 3 views

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collaborative blogs wikis question

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  • In what ways do the readings for this week provide an insight into their potential use in educational settings? In what ways could they support the learning goals you have for your students? What do these venues for collaboration and resource sharing mean for you as an educator and scholar? What questions do they raise for you?
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
       
      Questions to explore for today's class
    • Chenwen Hong
      Chenwen Hong on 15 Feb 10
       
      Diigo & Zotero are really useful tools to do research.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
       
      We should try to tease out the similarities and differences between these two tools and when and how one would use each. For some tools it is just a matter of personal preference, say between using pbworks versus wikispaces in creating a wiki. Do you think the same could be said here or are there critical differences?
    • Celeste Arrieta
      Celeste Arrieta on 16 Feb 10
       
      I think Diigo provides a wide variety of possibilities. Zotero is also useful and maybe it's easier to learn how to use it. But when I tried to find groups and information on my specific field, Zotero didn't show many.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
       
      Celeste, I wonder if part of the reason why you couldn't find groups or specific information in your area of interest is because this part of Zotero is relatively new and that faculty in the humanities, in particular, are not 'rewarded' in the same way as those in the sciences are for collaborating. Do you think humanities faculty regularly collaborate on research currently? Do you know how their scholarly work is evaluated in this regard? What do you think of these new learning and scholarship opportunities and how they might impact you? Once you all have had a chance to use both for a while, I wonder if distinct differences between Diigo and Zotero will begin to emerge for you?
Barbara Lindsey

Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 3) | Language Lab Unleashed! - 0 views

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assessment sawhill

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  • I was soundly “learned” by them and I won’t make that mistake again!
  • Did they take to the technology like fish to water because they were under 30 yrs of age? oh heck no. They chose tools that made sense for them — based on their comfort level and their intended outcomes in the language and the course.
Barbara Lindsey

academhack » Blog Archive » A Model for Teaching College Writing - 0 views

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academichack higher ed writing students

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  • most rhetoric courses focus strictly on writing, and they limit assignments to the classroom environment – practices that devalue other rhetorical mediums, and the purpose of rhetoric itself.
  • A website containing copies of their larger papers coincided with the blog. This made the assignments more communal in nature and reinforced that writing is meant to be shared.
  • Creating work in a vacuum delegitimizes it. When the goal of your course is to teach students to persuade, and you don’t include what is now the most influential tool for disseminating your argument, you are crippling your students.
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  • Rhetoric is more than just learning a standard structure for an argument. Students should be asking themselves: “How does what we write and what we think change when we know that in ten minutes we can create a blog and broadcast to the world? How does this change how we see and portray ourselves?” These are the deeper rhetorical questions students need to grapple with. It is this focus that will make them stronger readers, writers, and citizens.
  • We tell students that pictures are a viable means of persuasion, and then we as them to write about it. This hardly reinforces the message. So I thought: “Why not have the students work with the mediums they study, including film?”
  • I think the class was a success. It taught the students to work with a variety of mediums and to always consider their work as something to share. It is this final point that the entire course hinged on: community. The blog, the group film – everything the students – did was about engaging the world, establishing a presence, and utilizing the tools that the rest of the world is operating with, rather than limiting them to traditional print-based technology.
  • She was given a course with a group of students who she was told, were struggling with writing and needed, “more structure.” As a response Barbara did the smart thing, and actually gave the students more freedom and control over their education.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
       
      What do you think about this approach?
Barbara Lindsey

Beyond Campus Boundaries ePortfolio Transforms into 'Cultural Application' -- Campus Te... - 0 views

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eportfolio portfolio higher ed campustech

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  • 08/09/05
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
       
      It's five years hence--do you see any evidence of large-scale portfolio adoption at your institution?
  • It’s a cultural application
  • ePortfolios
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  • What’s happening with universities in this knowledge age is that the boundaries between the university and the rest of the world have pretty much dissolved. We are now a learning culture, or a knowledge culture.
  • It’s something that whole countries are offering to their citizens to store things related to their work, over a career or over the time when they are developing their career.
  • what’s driving the market in the US is assessment management.
  • universities—especially schools of education around the country—are rushing to implement ePortfolio systems so that they can do the kind of reporting the accrediting agencies are asking for.
  • The big market is going to be everyone having an ePortfolio, whether they are in college or not in college
  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
     
    2005 interview w/Trent Batson, who talks about ePortfolio use in U.S. institutions of higher ed.
Barbara Lindsey

Dr. Wave Introduction - 0 views

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google wave video

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
     
    Dr. Wave explains what Google Wave is all about. Just a little over 2 minutes. You can explore more with the links on the left.
Barbara Lindsey

An Introduction to Language Learning and the New Web - List | Diigo - 0 views

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diigo lists Gaugler example

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    Kevin Gaugler's List. On the right-hand side you can see his other public lists that focus on Spanish civ and culture.
Barbara Lindsey

Talking in color: imaging helps social skills | Reuters - 1 views

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language color conversation graphic

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
     
    Wonder if this could be used to help language learners in developing language-specific conversational exchange styles?
Barbara Lindsey

Richard Halverson and Allan Collins - Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology - T... - 0 views

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education interview rethinking collins halverson

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  • RECORDINGS:
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
       
      You can access the full audio recording and chat transcript via these links.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 16 Feb 10
     
    Steve Hargadon interviews Profs. Halverson and Collins on their recent book.
suzanne ondrus

gathering in light - Thoughts on Pedagogy: Does Technology in The Classroom Help or Hurt? - 1 views

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harm of technology

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    Does Pedagogy hurt the Classroom?
Barbara Lindsey

MYLO - Home - 1 views

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students language learning free collaborative

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    Targeted to young people and designed to develop life-long learning, this free site is set to launch in March 2010. Check out the following for more particulars (the link for information for schools and teachers): http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/Home/SchoolTeacherInfo
Inas Ayyoub

Aswaat Arabiyya - 1 views

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  • Inas Ayyoub on 15 Feb 10
     
    good for listening exercises
  • Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
     
    Are these good for all levels of Arabic language learners?
knewalex

RT - Latest News - 0 views

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Christopher Laine

Nomadics - A place for tracings, translations, meanderings, explorations of a mainly wr... - 1 views

pierrejoris.com/blog

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    Pierre Joris' blog
Blanca Garcia Valenzuela

Todoele 2.0 | E/LE y Web 2.0 - 0 views

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web2.0 ele spanish todoele languages

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  • Blanca Garcia Valenzuela on 15 Feb 10
     
    Web 2.0 resources for language classes (in Spanish)
Kemen Zabala

Digital Dialects language learning - 1 views

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Catalan languages learning interactive education

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  • The Digital Dialects website features free to use interactive games for learning languages. Language sections are updated regularly and new sections are under development. This site requires the use of Macromedia Flash Player.
Catherine Ross

Course Planning & Syllabus Design | Teaching and Learning Center - 0 views

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syllabus design

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    how to create a syllabus
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