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Presentation Methods | SlideRocket Online Presentation Software - 2 views

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"Many presenters, particularly novices, struggle to find a presentation style that works best for them. Luckily, throughout the years, after much trial and error, many successful techniques and methodologies for presentation creation and delivery have emerged, giving speakers a variety of existing approaches to "borrow" from. From top left: Lawrence Lessig, Masayoshi Takahashi, Seth Godin, Mino Monta Here, we'll describe and evaluate some of the most famous - and popular - presentation methods."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Many presenters, particularly novices, struggle to find a presentation style that works best for them. Luckily, throughout the years, after much trial and error, many successful techniques and methodologies for presentation creation and delivery have emerged, giving speakers a variety of existing approaches to "borrow" from. From top left: Lawrence Lessig, Masayoshi Takahashi, Seth Godin, Mino Monta Here, we'll describe and evaluate some of the most famous - and popular - presentation methods."</div>

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elearnspace › Duplication theory of educational value - 1 views

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shared by Chris Aitken on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached

Let me posit a duplication theory of education value: if something can be duplicated with limited costs, it can’t serve as a value point for higher education. Content is easily duplicated and has no value. What is valuable, however, is that which can’t be duplicated without additional input costs: personal feedback and assessment, contextualized and personalized navigation through complex topics, encouragement, questioning by a faculty member to promote deeper thinking, and a context and infrastructure of learning.
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The vast majority of universities that will educate humanity in the coming decades will be those that structure their value point on elements that cannot be easily duplicated and scaled, or at minimum, require input costs to do so
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Most of the economic input costs of the university would (should) be directed to those areas that impact learners
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Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet - 1 views

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Quizlet looks like a very powerful study aid for students, especially those needing to "hear" the words, as there's a voice option.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Quizlet looks like a very powerful study aid for students, especially those needing to "hear" the words, as there's a voice option.</div>

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Are You Prepared for a Social Media Crisis | The Higher ED CIO - 2 views

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"Altimeter's research examined companies considered to be advanced in social business and their preparations for or ability to avoid a social media crisis. Given the accelerated us of social media on campus within core services, meaning higher education's adoption of a social media business model, the possibility of a social media crisis arising is something that should be expected and planned for."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Altimeter's research examined companies considered to be advanced in social business and their preparations for or ability to avoid a social media crisis. Given the accelerated us of social media on campus within core services, meaning higher education's adoption of a social media business model, the possibility of a social media crisis arising is something that should be expected and planned for."</div>

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Google Announces Accessibility Improvements for Visually Challenged Users | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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"Google has announced a new initiative to increase accessibility for visually challenged users on its major Web services. At the outset of a new school year, Google is rolling out accessibility improvements to Docs, Sites and Calendars. Google is hosting a live webinar for enterprise customers - which include educational institutions - on Wednesday, September 21 at 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Google has announced a new initiative to increase accessibility for visually challenged users on its major Web services. At the outset of a new school year, Google is rolling out accessibility improvements to Docs, Sites and Calendars. Google is hosting a live webinar for enterprise customers - which include educational institutions - on Wednesday, September 21 at 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)."</div>

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http://higheredstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/InsightBrief42.pdf - 1 views

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Survey of student's perceptions of e-learning and e-resources in Canadian universities.

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Five Reasons Why YouTube Rocks the Classroom | MindShift - 2 views

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Good teaching: One size fits all? - 1 views

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Introduction: "Across North America and increasingly the world, there is a move within education to adopt a constructivist view of learning and teaching. In part, the argument for this move is a reaction against teacher-centred instruction that has dominated much of education, particularly adult and higher education, for the past forty years or more. While I do not argue with the basic tenets of constructivism, I do resist the rush to adopt any single, dominant view of learning or teaching. Unless we are cautious, I fear we are about to replace one orthodoxy with yet another and promote a 'one size fits all' notion of good teaching."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Introduction: "Across North America and increasingly the world, there is a move within education to adopt a constructivist view of learning and teaching. In part, the argument for this move is a reaction against teacher-centred instruction that has dominated much of education, particularly adult and higher education, for the past forty years or more. While I do not argue with the basic tenets of constructivism, I do resist the rush to adopt any single, dominant view of learning or teaching. Unless we are cautious, I fear we are about to replace one orthodoxy with yet another and promote a 'one size fits all' notion of good teaching."</div>

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Topicmarks - 1 views

It promises to summarize the document you load into short easy sentences. I'm hearing that it actually works quite well. It's free - in beta http://topicmarks.com/

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ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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"Define Your Boundaries How you choose to set boundaries on the kinds of communication you have with colleagues and students will ultimately be a personal decision, albeit shaped by campus policy (on office hours or the use of email) and departmental culture (some departments expect your attendance at frequent social events, and others don't). Because the language of social media (following and friending) tends to blur boundaries, it's very important that teachers communicate carefully with students about their own practices (I and many other faculty simply have a rule of not friending students on Facebook, for example) and especially when social media are included in course requirements. Jason and Alex's discussion of the creepy treehouse problem offers some good suggestions on making your reasons for using social media for the course transparent. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Define Your Boundaries How you choose to set boundaries on the kinds of communication you have with colleagues and students will ultimately be a personal decision, albeit shaped by campus policy (on office hours or the use of email) and departmental culture (some departments expect your attendance at frequent social events, and others don't). Because the language of social media (following and friending) tends to blur boundaries, it's very important that teachers communicate carefully with students about their own practices (I and many other faculty simply have a rule of not friending students on Facebook, for example) and especially when social media are included in course requirements. Jason and Alex's discussion of the creepy treehouse problem offers some good suggestions on making your reasons for using social media for the course transparent. "</div>

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More Doodling Makes For Better Learning | MindShift - 0 views

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The research suggests that when students draw a scientific concept, such as a sound wave, they understand it better.
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Full Interview: Cathy N. Davidson on Evolving Education | Spark - 0 views

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Nuts and Bolts: The 10-Minute Instructional Design Degree by Jane Bozarth : Learning So... - 4 views

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Design assessments first.
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Don’t let the “objectives” obscure the point.
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No tool will take your content-heavy slides and turn them into an engaging, interactive eLearning experience.
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Design is finished when there’s nothing left to take out
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There is no such thing as fidelity.
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Beware of Clicky-Clicky-Bling-Bling (CCBB) design.
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Learn to say “No.”
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Instruction does not cause learning.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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"This conundrum calls into question one of the most significant contemporary educational movements. Advocates for giving schools a major technological upgrade - which include powerful educators, Silicon Valley titans and White House appointees - say digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This conundrum calls into question one of the most significant contemporary educational movements. Advocates for giving schools a major technological upgrade - which include powerful educators, Silicon Valley titans and White House appointees - say digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets. "</div>

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massive open online course starting soon - 4 views

Being connected changes learning. When those connections are global, the experience of knowledge development is dramatically altered as well. Over the past four years, a growing number of educators...

education online

started by Kathy Schwarz on 02 Sep 11 no follow-up yet

Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies | Gilfus Education Group - 0 views

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"The Utah Education Network is a case in point. It left Blackboard, the market leader, for Instructure, a year old Utah-based developer with an open source product called Canvas. Consider the way messages are sent and received on Instructure's Canvas: The receiver has a choice between traditional university E-mail, gmail, Facebook and text messaging; Blackboard's system uses traditional E-mail and was designed before Facebook was created. For a student body that uses social media the way earlier generations used pencil and paper, the differences between the two competitors are profound."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Utah Education Network is a case in point. It left Blackboard, the market leader, for Instructure, a year old Utah-based developer with an open source product called Canvas. Consider the way messages are sent and received on Instructure's Canvas: The receiver has a choice between traditional university E-mail, gmail, Facebook and text messaging; Blackboard's system uses traditional E-mail and was designed before Facebook was created. For a student body that uses social media the way earlier generations used pencil and paper, the differences between the two competitors are profound."</div>

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Marcia Baxter Magolda - self authorship - 0 views

Marcia has done fascinating research on student development through a longitudinal study of students over a 20 year period. As she tracked students over time, she defined 3 stages of what she call...

education teaching

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 Sep 11 no follow-up yet

Teaching Perspective Inventory (TPI) - 4 views

This is the link to the TPI http://teachingperspectives.com/ I have used this in the past with instructors to help them think about their underlying assumptions about teaching. It's a short, fun...

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 Sep 11 no follow-up yet

The Ultimate Guide To Google+ For Educators - Edudemic - 2 views

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Google+

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The Calgary Council for Advanced Technology (CCAT) website and events - 2 views

These are not specific to education, but the technologies they discuss are often interesting. The range of topics for 2011/2012 include, but are not limited to, BioMechanical Technologies, Mobile ...

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