Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness

"Pinterest is taking the social media world by storm, and it isn't just popular with individual users. Businesses, nonprofits, and even libraries are sharing ideas and information through the site as well, connecting with people from around the country and around the globe." While these are specific examples from libraries, I think that educators might find this interesting and possibly even useful.

Kahneman's TED Talk about experience, memory, and attention. Kahneman's work has been a regular feature of our GSR 984 class on Critical Thinking and Professional Skills for graduate students.

Article - "Development and Use of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory " by Keith Trigwell and Michael Prosser - explores faculty conceptions of teaching (from transmission oriented/teaching focused to conceptual change oriented/student focused).

"Making sense of methodologies: A paradigm framework for the novice researcher" - Article introducing different methodologies for research on teaching and learning (and other social sciences)

"Short video explains how to use Diigo to collaborate with students, colleagues, friends and family."

"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text." Thanks for Erika for pointing this out to me.

"Below is just a small fraction of the amazing presentations put on by the folks over at TED. Each one of the presentations embedded below is perfect for sharing with students and showing in class*. Heck, assigning the viewing of these TED talks as homework isn't a bad idea."

"The traditional model of the lecture and learning cycle has long been to deliver the lecture during class and to send students home to do homework and perhaps engage in a discussion or two afterwards. The flipped classroom flips this model on its head: through lecture capture software, lectures can be captured on video for students to watch home, freeing up class time for hands-on learning activities and discussion."