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firstday - Tech - 164 views

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First Day Activities Icebreakers

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Beth Messner on 19 Aug 11
     
    First day activities organized by subject. While the site is geared toward K-12 students, I'm sure many activities could be adapted for our online students.
Mary Beth Messner

Creating a Sense of Time in Online Courses | Faculty Focus - 62 views

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Teaching Tips TeachingOnline Content Time Elearning Updating Discussions

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • While we all agree that the five-year-old unnarrated PowerPoint is a dangerous and ineffective piece of content in an online course, we would also all agree that we can’t redo each narrated piece of content each semester. How do we strike a balance between creating content that is fresh (more on that in a moment) and being able to reuse content that is valuable?
  • For teachers it makes them participate in the content, revisit the content they created in the past, and make it delivered in a “present” time for the students. For students it tells them that the teacher “was just here,” and that this stuff is happening now. It makes the content seem more relevant, and helps build a sense of community in the course.
  • By creating content that has elements of real time associated with it, instructors can generate a sense of presence and freshness that are often missing in online courses.
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  • Lastly, keep the flowers fresh.
  • A sense of time is created in discussion boards because they have only that week to complete the work and there is an understanding that the conversations happen in time. But often asynchronous discussions have wide gaps of time between student interactions. One way to bring time closer to the students is to allow them to subscribe to forum threads they are involved in. You can do this in most LMS solutions. Students get an email alerting them to activity in the thread they are active in and it brings them closer “in real time” to the events happening in the class. While this can be overwhelming in larger courses, in a class of 20 or 30 students it usually does not amount to an unreasonable amount of email notifications. One of the most effective ways to bring timeliness to an online course is do a quick recap of previous week, as well as provide a preview of what is expected for the current week. Using screen capture software to go through the course and set expectations is a great way to not only share a bit of yourself with students, but it is a pre-emptive way to answer questions students commonly ask.
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Stellarium - 108 views

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education astronomy

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 14 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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eLearn: Opinions - Academic Honesty in the Online Environment - 33 views

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Academic Integrity Honesty Delivery and Development Course

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  • There seems to be a common sentiment that online courses open up the door for students to become more mischievous and dishonest than they ever would dare in a more traditional classroom setting, but why is that the case?
  • Can he or she know for sure—even when students are in direct eyesight as they work through an exam—that nothing improper is happening? And what about the instructor who gives take-home exams? How are these any different from the kinds of exams that students in an online course might take?
  • Perhaps the key for all of us—regardless of where and how we teach our course—is to really rethink just what assessment means, because no matter where the class takes place, someone who wants to behave in a dishonest way will probably figure out how to do so.
Mary Beth Messner

Edunology - Word-Clouds - 146 views

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Tagxedo Wordle Web 2.0 Student Engagement Images Graphics Visual Design

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Beth Messner on 11 Apr 11
     
    Numerous word cloud sites are listed, as are ideas for using them.
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Zendo | passionate learners - 93 views

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Flashcards Content Web 2.0 Student Engagement Interactive

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Beth Messner on 30 Mar 11
     
    Zendo not only creates flashcards from user notes, but it also tracks how well the learner knows the content of the flashcards.
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CaptionTube: Help - 52 views

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closed captioning

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 21 Mar 11 - Cached
  • CaptionTube is a utility for adding closed captions to YouTube videos. After you import a video, you play the video and add captions as needed. When you are done, you export the captions and then upload to YouTube.
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Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com - 83 views

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TED khan math flipped_classroom video screencast screencasting

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
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  • Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
  • Mary Beth Messner on 14 Mar 11
     
    Brilliant idea for education: Flip the format and have students watch video lectures at home and do "homework" in class.
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Tech Savvy Kids - 86 views

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shared by Mary Beth Messner on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • To the psychologists, sociologists, and generational and media experts who study them, their digital gear sets this new group (yet unnamed by any powers that be) apart, even from their tech-savvy Millennial elders. They want to be constantly connected and available in a way even their older siblings don't quite get. These differences may appear slight, but they signal an all-encompassing sensibility that some say marks the dawning of a new generation.
  •  PARENTING & KIDS' HEALTH NEWS: ONLY ON USA TODAYNew daditude: Today's fathers are hands-on, pressure offTV: Impairs speech | Leads to earlier sexBaby names: What's popular? Whatever's unusualMore parents share workload when mom learns to let goAre kids becoming too narcissistic? | Take the quizChemicals: What you need to know about BPA | Carcinogens found in kids' bath products | Lead poisonings persist'Momnesia,' spanking, tweens and toddlers fullCoverage='Close  X Todders: Parents' fear factor? A short toddle into the danger zoneTweens: Cooler than ever, but is childhood lost?
  • The difference is that these younger kids "don't remember a time without the constant connectivity to the world that these technologies bring," she says. "They're growing up with expectations of always being present in a social way — always being available to peers wherever you are."
Mary Beth Messner

Screenr - @jeanettebrooks: CNN-style Q&A interaction, Part 1: How it behaves, and what ... - 40 views

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PowerPoint Student Engagement Interactive Design

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Beth Messner on 28 Feb 11
     
    Really cool how-to for PowerPoint
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