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What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use.  Beautiful.

Just amazingly executed. I think I'm going to make this my annual professional development goal to get this sort of thing started here.

Some things to consider/remember when using online learning tools with students.

Lots of tutorials and links to resources for many of the tools used in eLearning.

Within the report are numerous charts, job aids, and activities that allow you to make  the most of the innovations and updates in Bloom's Taxonomy for yourself and your  work team.

Online Interactive ELearning Teaching Resources

eLearning modules, PDFs, videos, and more for both learning and teaching with Geogebra

"PowerPoint is a versatile application. You can use it for all sorts of things from presentations to online training programs. In previous posts I've shown you how to customize clip art and create your own graphics. Today's tip comes courtesy of blog reader, Daniel Albarrán. He sent me an email stating that once he understood the versatility of PowerPoint it opened his eyes to all sorts of possibilities-one of them being the ability to create illustrated characters"

"By sharing our voices, we hear each others accents, share a bit of personal information and make an emotional connection. Simply from hearing the background noises in the audio tracks and picking up on visual images in the pictures students have chosen to share, I have learned the following"

Study using voicethread for online discussion

The presentation will describe SCAFFOLD - Scale for  Forums/Online Discussion Assessment. The authors will  describe the SCAFFOLD instrument as a tool for  categorizing and describing contributions. The process for  establishing reliability and validity will be detailed. 

"This author's position is that asynchronous online discussions face an array of resolvable pedagogical and course management challenges. Online discussions can transform mere course chatter into a cyber forum of student-centered learning through meticulous planning, designing and orchestrating. After introducing common issues, a literature review summarizes the contributions that online discussions bring to distance learning. The author then addresses pedagogical and managerial issues that plague online discussions with strategies that instructors may readily employ. In the pedagogical realm, these include insights on organizing online discussions, using groups to facilitate interactions, establishing discussion parameters, and ensuring that the course syllabus introduces online discussion details. In the managerial realm, approaches are offered regarding overseeing discussion windows, using icebreakers, assessing student performance, ongoing communications, maintaining an online presence, netiquette, and a variety of other online discussion tips. In support of online instructors, the article weaves in relevant literature with the hard learned lessons from the author's ongoing attempts to improve online discussions. It concludes by urging instructors to cultivate improvement continuously through candid self-critique supplemented by student feedback."

for students

This presentation discusses a series of  financial lab exercises that demonstrate to students that finance theory has real value in  the business world, thus linking "abstract" course content to the real world. The  exercises align with Bloom's Taxonomy, starting with acquisition of knowledge goals and  moving toward the development of higher level critical thinking goals. 

Penn States Faculty Development Ning for Online and Continuing Education