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IDL6543 - Interactive Distributed Learning Week 6: Blogs & Wikis Lab

The Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness supports UCF faculty in formulating and implementing research on effective teaching practices in higher education. If you are a UCF faculty member with an idea for classroom research, please contact us! Visit our links to see the services we can provide, see our faculty research showcase for ongoing classroom-based research, or examine results from our ongoing Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation.

The RITE group supports UCF faculty in formulating and implementing research on effective teaching practices in higher education. An earlier version of their presentation during their IDL6543 seminar is also available at their Web site.

Web Veteran Interview List Faculty members listed have taught at least twice and may teach more than one online (or partially online course). One sample course has been listed for each.

You can share your presentations online on the web through authorPOINT Lite, by uploading to authorSTREAM (see how), a free online presentation sharing platform, and to WiZiQ (see how), a free online education platform. authorPOINT Lite is Microsoft® Windows® Vista® compatible and Microsoft Office® 2007 compatible. You can also directly share your PowerPoint's on these servers, using aP Lite's PowerPoint plug-in, for which the conversion to flash outputs is done on these servers.

Download Jing - a free screen cast software. You can snap a picture of your screen, record a video of onscreen action, and share your screen casts instantly over the Web.

Tutorials to learn how to use Camtatasia to record your screen, narrate your power point and others.

The Online@UCF Support provides immediate and personal support for faculty and staff who offer online Webcourses@UCF. Supporting a wide range of online faculty needs, Online@UCF Support offers phone, e-mail, and scheduled face-to-face support sessions, as well as group workshops throughout the academic year.

A list of UCF teaching online faculty resources.

The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative offers a digital case story repository that hosts over 60 discipline-specific multimedia stories. Digital stories for faculty development can provide real-life experiences of exemplary teaching strategies and the process of implementing them. These digital case stories can be used freely in faculty development programs and also accessed by individual instructors.

The ChemCollective is an online resource repository for Teaching and Learning Chemistry.

Web-based Science Labs Laboratory simulations for chemistry and biology enhance science education. Perform life-like science experiments anytime, anywhere. Easy to implement for any general chemistry or biology course. Perfect for distance learning.

UCF Professor's YouTube example: This video series enables students to learn basic counseling and therapy techniques as the session unfolds.

WebCT Campus Edition 6 incorporates a Who's Online feature that allows course participants to see who else is logged into the course at a given time and start a conversation with them.

A demo of a course instant messaging tool

Check out the developer preview at Google I/O Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not Advertisement Advertisement © 2004 Brian Lamb EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 36-48.

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

DiRT is a wiki that collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct research more efficiently or creatively. It provides a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which they not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers. Check out the links on the left of the page as well as the links listed on the right side of the screen.

A free/premium hosted workspace service which allows collaborative editing of pages and files