IUPUI CTL

A good reminder of how to "act" while on social media.

A site built for librarians, but has several tools that can be useful for instructors, such as a Public Domain Slider, a Section 108 Spinner, Exceptions for Instructors, and a Fair Use Evaluator.

Read what the social media trends will be in 2010, more of the same, but social media will continue to play a bigger role.

WEB 2.0 RESOURCES FOR 21st CENTURY INSTRUCTION

Wiki on Diigo and why this platform should be used in higher education. Has a nice video, powerpoint presentation and how to use it in your classroom..

"What kind of learning environment would be best for you: a traditional setting or a distance learning program? Choose the answer that best describes you. When you complete this page, click Submit at the bottom of the page."

"Open Educational Resources are all about sharing. In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know."

College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They? There are good reasons to press the 'record' button, but uploading to the Internet might desecrate the classroom

Very cool! "Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."

Free online photo editor. Photoshop-lite-like.

"Wylio automatically sizes the image, hosts the image, and builds the photo credit into the code."

"Joshua Coupal, 17 July 2009"

- These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated..

In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process that both supports and recognizes individual and group learning can generate a powerful combination of interdependency and peer cooperation. Online assessment tools that evaluate both individual and group effort support this dynamic, fostering the reliance on community that is becoming an increasingly important feature of the online academic landscape.

Suggestions for how to assessment collaborative learning in an online course/setting.

"Inspired by Sandy Speicher's vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."

Einztein is your guide to the universe of free online courses. Whether you already know what you're looking for, or you just have a general idea, Einztein's purpose is to make the search for free online courses easy and rewarding. Hundreds of online courses have been designed by universities and similar institutions on chemistry, physics, history and many, many other subject areas that will help enhance your knowledge and skills.

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.

Good starting point, plus lots of links. Maybe this could be a future tech workshop?