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Mark Morton

ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: Accessible Instruction For Educators - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12
     
    This module has been developed by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in response to the Ontario Government's requirement for educators under Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). The goal of the AODA is to have a fully accessible Ontario by 2025. This module is open for public access and participation is not tracked. If you wish to use the module or link to it, you have permission from UOIT as long as UOIT receives appropriate credit. Accessibility is important and we welcome the opportunity to share this information with others.
Mark Morton

A Helping Hand for Young Faculty Members - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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mentoring cte

shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • "She wasn't really familiar with my discipline, but she was able to give me perspectives about the institution from a different vantage point. I really grew to appreciate that."
  • an increasing number of colleges now rely on formal mentor programs, many of them campuswide, to give new faculty members guaranteed access to senior professors who can help them.
  • These days, actively seeking career guidance within the ivory tower doesn't hold the stigma for new professors that it once did
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  • "It used to be sink or swim." Either you were cut out for the professoriate, or you weren't, she says. "But now you walk into a new place and it's not shameful to need help."
  • baffling task of pinning down the right mix of research, teaching, and service that will lead to tenure.
  • On a scale of 1 to 5, with the highest number representing "very important," the mean score for informal mentoring was 4.49. Formal mentoring was slightly less important with a mean score of 4.04.
  • "We try to have multiple pathways for people to engage in finding mentors,"
  • Officials at Yale University are fast-tracking efforts to shape the informal faculty mentors that is common on its campus into a more formal mentor process
  • Ms. Trower says that the more corporate mentorship mode — which includes training mentors and protégés, setting goals, and measuring the end result — isn't yet common in academe. Meanwhile, formal mentor programs do have at least one drawback: a mismatch can result in a strained relationship from which neither party sees a way out.
  • the future of mentor programs for faculty members should include outreach to midcareer professors
Mark Morton

http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Modified%20Peer%20Instruction%20ENG.pdf - 1 views

www.heqco.ca/...20Peer%20Instruction%20ENG.pdf

peer instruction

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  • Mark Morton on 11 Aug 15
     
    In the on-going quest for improved learning in large-class settings, an active-learning approach for an introductory physics course yielded mixed results, according to a new report from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Modified Peer Instruction in Large Introductory Physics Classes examined the use of collaborative, multiple-choice format question (MCFQ)-writing activities for students as a supplement to standard peer instruction methods.
Mark Morton

Concept Map pertaining to apps for the iPad - 0 views

www.mindmeister.com/...ipad-apps

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shared by Mark Morton on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Morton on 29 Feb 12
     
    This interactive concept map, developed by Mark Morton in UW's Centre for Teaching Excellence, categorizes iPad apps into four kinds, and provides examples or recommendations for each kinds. 
Mark Morton

ECCS - Students - Engineering Co-op - 0 views

www.eng.mcmaster.ca/...engcoop.htm

shared by Mark Morton on 09 May 08 - Cached
  • International students and Co-op Co-op offers international students an excellent opportunity to gain Canadian work experience. International students can apply for Co-op opportunities, provided they have secured the required documentation and approvals to gain legal permission to work off campus. International students must have the following BEFORE applying for Co-op positions: Valid passport that will cover the extended duration of studies, including the work term(s), Valid study permit that will cover the extended duration of studies, including the work term(s), Valid work permit that will cover the duration of the work term(s). Students should apply for work permits well before the anticipated start of the work term. Do not wait until you have been extended an offer! Paperwork processing could take weeks or months, and if the legal documentation is not obtained in time, the offer of employment will be forfeited. If you are an international student planning to apply for Co-op positions, speak to ECCS staff when you register in Co-op and request a letter that will confirm that your intended work term employment is a requirement of your academic program. This letter will need to be submitted to Citizenship and Immigration Canada with the “Application to Change Conditions, Extend My Stay or Remain in Canada”, along with any other required documents, when you apply for the work permit. Information on this process and application forms can be found at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/index.asp
Mark Morton

The Pitfalls of Academic Mentorships - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views

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mentoring cte

shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • At the height of Plumb's career through the 1960s and early 1970s, the word "mentor" was used only occasionally in academe or the corporate world.
  • The era of the mentor began in earnest only in the mid-1970s. The Yale psychologist Daniel J. Levinson, best known for his studies of middle age, had a precise definition quoted in The Christian Science Monitor on February 14, 1977: a person 8 to 15 years older than the "mentee," a "peer or older brother" rather than a "distant father." Levinson continued: "He takes the younger man under his wing, ... imparts his wisdom, cares, sponsors, criticizes, and bestows his blessing."
  • Corporate mentoring took center stage in 1978 and 1979 with two articles in the Harvard Business Review. The title of the first, an interview with a group of senior executives from the Jewel Companies, echoes to this day: "Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor."
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  • Harriet Zuckerman's 1977 book on the scientific elite and American Nobel laureates had shown how crucial the system of graduate supervision had been; more than half of America's Nobel laureates by the year 1972 had been students, postdoctoral fellows, or junior collaborators with older laureates, and many others had worked with major nonlaureates.
  • For all my gratitude for such support, I remain skeptical about the mentor-protégé bond and see the "Much Ado about Mentors," to quote the title of Roche's late 1970s Harvard Business Review article, as the start of a disturbing trend.
  • Yet the search for a mentor, for a safe initiation into academic or corporate mysteries, can overshadow the entrepreneurial spirit. Roche himself pointed out that mentored executives "do not consider having a mentor an important ingredient in their own success." They credited their aptitudes, hard work, and even luck ahead of mentoring.
  • The current trend toward overvaluing mentors is understandable but mistaken.
Mark Morton

The role of listening in interpersonal influence - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12
     
    Using informant reports on working professionals, we explored the role of listening in interpersonal influence and how listening may account for at least some of the relationship between personality and influence. The results extended prior work which has suggested that listening is positively related to influence for informational and relational reasons. As predicted, we found that: (1) listening had a positive effect on influence beyond the impact of verbal expression, (2) listening interacted with verbal expression to predict influence (such that the relationship between listening and influence was stronger among those more expressive), and (3) listening partly mediated the positive relationships between each of the Big Five dimensions of agreeableness and openness and influence.
Mark Morton

Quora - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 06 Apr 12 - Cached
  • Mark Morton on 06 Apr 12
     
    Quora easily allows you or your students to find questions that have already been posed (that is, by individuals who might or might not have any connection to your course). More than likely, responses to those questions will have already been contributed. 
Mark Morton

Dropbox vs. the Alternatives: Which Online Syncing Service Is Right for You? - 0 views

lifehacker.com/...ncing-service-is-right-for-you

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  • Mark Morton on 30 Apr 12
     
    Other services for cloud-based storage. 
Mark Morton

CATME Team Maker - 0 views

engineering.purdue.edu/CATME

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  • Mark Morton on 19 Mar 12
     
    For teams to be successful, the teamwork environment must be managed. The Team-Maker forms teams according to user-specified criteria. The Comprehensive Assessment for Team-Member Effectiveness (CATME) gathers peer evaluation data and self evaluations to assess how effectively each team member contributes to the team and gives feedback to team members and to the person administering the teams.
Mark Morton

Thinklinkr: the best real-time collaborative online outliner - 0 views

thinklinkr.com

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shared by Mark Morton on 21 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Mark Morton on 21 Mar 12
     
    From the homepage of this tool: "Thinklinkr has one of the fastest, simplest, and most innovative interfaces on the web and it will change the way you work. Meetings, brainstorming, and lectures will be fundamentally different for you. You will be more productive, organized, and connected with what's going on in your brain. Leave thinklinkr open for a day, use it to organize your thoughts, and you won't ever want to turn it off."
Trevor Holmes

How To Understand a Painting Video | Painting Appreciation Videos | Howcast.com - 0 views

www.howcast.com/...4-How-To-Understand-a-Painting

art teaching art cte

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  • Trevor Holmes on 22 Jan 10
     
    useful for people encountering art for the first time
  • Alan Kirker on 02 Mar 10
     
    Maybe some things, such as art, are better un-understood?
Mark Morton

Four Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Learning Environment - 12 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...e-flipped-learning-environment

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  • Mark Morton on 11 Aug 15
     
    "Four Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Learning Environment"
Mark Morton

Apps for education session - 0 views

wiki.wpi.edu/...Apps_for_education_session

cte

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  • Mark Morton on 07 Mar 12
     
    Report from a session devoted to apps for education. 
Jane Holbrook

5 stage model of interaction by Gilly Salmon - 0 views

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  • Jane Holbrook on 11 Nov 10
     
    Individual access and the ability of participants to use CMC are essential prerequisites for conference participation (stage one, at the base of the flights of steps). Stage two involves individual participants establishing their online identities and then finding others with whom to interact. At stage three, participants give information relevant to the course to each other. Up to and including stage three, a form of co-operation occurs, i.e. support for each person's goals. At stage four, course-related group discussions occur and the interaction becomes more collaborative. The communication depends on the establishment of common understandings. At stage five, participants look for more benefits from the system to help them achieve personal goals, explore how to integrate CMC into other forms of learning and reflect on the learning processes.
Mark Morton

UW CIP - International Connections Report - Current - 0 views

www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/...intreport7.html

co-op international

shared by Mark Morton on 09 May 08 - Cached
  • The environment on campus is already international in many respects, due to a multicultural and diverse student body with many ethnic and international students' clubs. Exchange programs are a tremendous learning experience for students and interest in them is growing every year, as evidenced by the number of active student exchange agreements and students participating. Faculty coordinators work on a volunteer basis, and the success of the exchange programs is due in large part to their enthusiasm and dedication. Some exchange agreements provide possibilities for work terms abroad, and these are very attractive to students as a way of broadening their international experience and providing potential employment opportunities upon graduation. In spite of resource limitations, the Department of Co-operative Education and Career Services has been quite successful in finding international placements for students. Waterloo has a strong National Alumni Council and alumni in approximately 100 countries around the world, many in positions of influence.
Mark Morton

Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | E... - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...blem-learning-higher-education

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  • Mark Morton on 21 Dec 12
     
    A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries between the classroom and life experience, along with the power of social learning, authentic audiences, and integrative contexts, has created not only promising changes in learning but also disruptive moments in teaching.
Mark Morton

Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines: D. Randy G... - 1 views

www.amazon.com/...0787987700

blended blended learning learning education framework garrison vaughan cte

shared by Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Morton on 18 Dec 12
     
    This groundbreaking book offers a down-to-earth resource for the practical application of blended learning in higher education as well as a comprehensive examination of the topic. Well-grounded in research, Blended Learning in Higher Education clearly demonstrates how the blended learning approach embraces the traditional values of face-to-face teaching and integrates the best practices of online learning. This approach has proven to both enhance and expand the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching and learning in higher education across disciplines.
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