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Three Ways to Increase the Quality of Students' Discussion Board Comments - 15 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...ents-discussion-board-comments

discussion board Comment tips blogging hybrid online

shared by Michael Walker on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Generation of class norms by the students:
  • Having ownership of the norms that govern the course discussions will certainly affect the climate of collaborative learning in an online class by providing an impetus for students to post more constructive and meaningful messages
  • The employment of Grice’s maxims for self-evaluation:
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  • Quantity: make your contribution as informative as is required, but not more, or less, than is required. Quality: do not say that which you believe to be false or for which you lack evidence. Relation: be relevant. Manner: avoid ambiguity and obscurity; be clear, brief, and orderly.
  • Retrospective analysis of posted responses:
  • self-critique and reflect on their performance and comment on their perceptions concerning the quality of their responses may make them revisit their learning and, more important, initiate them into rethinking about their postings to improve their talk quality.
  • Michael Walker on 02 Mar 10
     
    Study shares good, basic ideas for comments to discussion boards and blogs.
Michael Walker

DigiGogy: Digital Bloom's Visual - 30 views

digigogy.blogspot.com/...digital-blooms-visual.html

digital blooms_taxonomy tools

shared by Michael Walker on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 19 Feb 10
     
    Angela Meiers posted about this awhile back. Shows Bloom's taxonomy with the Web 2.0 tools that fit each part of the pyramid.
Michael Walker

SAILOn Subject Area Interactive Lessons On - 2 views

www.pasadenaisd.org/...default.htm

lessons online interactive

shared by Michael Walker on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 16 Feb 10
     
    A compilation of lessons created by 7 districts in the Houston, TX area.
Michael Walker

How to Do Project Based Learning-Online Video Library - 17 views

www.pbl-online.org/...video2.htm

pbl

shared by Michael Walker on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 12 Feb 10
     
    A direct link to videos on PBL
Michael Walker

Why Assignment Structure is Detrimental to the Development of Thinking - Synthesizing E... - 11 views

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PBL project project based Learning structure

shared by Michael Walker on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 11 Feb 10
     
    I definitely fell into the category of providing too much!
Michael Walker

New Old Reading (and it's working) at Autodizactic - 8 views

autodizactic.com/blog

reading pedagogy learning

shared by Michael Walker on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 11 Feb 10
     
    I sat in on Zach's class at Educon last year. Great teacher. Interesting reflection!
Michael Walker

As We May Learn: Revisiting Bush -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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As We May Learn Vannevar Bush

shared by Michael Walker on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • In all cases, students are acting not as repeaters of known content but as creators of new content.
Michael Walker

dkuropatwapresentations / METC 2010 - 13 views

dkuropatwapresentations.pbworks.com/METC-2010

Darren Kuropatwa Web 2.0 lessonplans

shared by Michael Walker on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 08 Feb 10
     
    Darren Kuropatwa's presentations at METC. The Lesson Plan makeover is similar to something we've been talking about in PLP.
Michael Walker

The Clever Sheep: Educon: Field Guide for Change Agents - 20 views

thecleversheep.blogspot.com/...d-guide-for-change-agents.html

Field Guide for Change Agents change creativity collaboration relationships sharable

shared by Michael Walker on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 31 Jan 10
     
    This was a collaborative effort of participants in an Educon 2.2 workshop.
Michael Walker

Get Your Geek On, Help Scientists With iDoScien - Flash Player Installation - 11 views

planetgreen.discovery.com/...scientists-ido-science.html

idoscience social networks science learning research projects ideas

shared by Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
Michael Walker

How Teachers & Classrooms Will Need to Change in Our Hyperconnected Age | Britannica Blog - 12 views

www.britannica.com/...ange-in-our-hyperconnected-age

future education learning

shared by Michael Walker on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 26 Jan 10
     
    This ties in nicely with the information we got yesterday.
Michael Walker

Google Apps, Moodle, & Mahara (Google Teacher Academy Resources) - 15 views

sites.google.com/...inspiring1

Chris Walsh mahara moodle googleapps google Integration

shared by Michael Walker on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 15 Jan 10
     
    Presentation by Chris Walsh at the Boulder Google Teacher Academy on using Google, Moodle and Mahara.
Michael Walker

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski - 3 views

www.runleiarun.com/lebowski

lebowski shakespeare humor satire literature

shared by Michael Walker on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 11 Jan 10
     
    What if William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?
Michael Walker

Always Innovating: Introducing the Touch Book - 19 views

www.alwaysinnovating.com/...index.htm

laptop tablet netbook mult-touch 1:1

shared by Michael Walker on 09 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 09 Dec 09
     
    Looks like they beat Apple to the punch. Looks better/less childish than the Classmate.
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