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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.
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.
Psychologists say that creativity thrives in a permissive environment, but some people spend their days in a workplace that frowns upon innovative thinking. Furthermore, the traditional workplace is often filled with distractions that interrupt your creative flow. In some workplaces, competition between employees, autocratic bosses or a lack of team cooperation can bury creative notions. These are the environmental blocks we most overcome.
"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"
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."
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.
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