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Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses

This website provides challenges where students have to replicate specific 2D images on a 3D platform. For the spatially challenged, such as myself, this is not as simple of a task as it first seems! I particularly love this site because it easily lends itself to small-group collaboration, trial and error discussions and problem solving -- all skills for our 21st century learners. Put it on the SMART Board, and work through together as a class, or make the SMART Board a 'center' with this one Geometry activity for one group of 3-5 students to tackle, while other small groups work on additional geometry challenges around the room (traditional pen and paper Math problems, building 3D models, etc.)

The objective of the GeoGebra Step-by-Step Tutorial Series is not only to teach the readers how to use the software, but also to suggest how to use GeoGebra in teaching and learning mathematics. Most of the tutorials are (or will be) linked to related articles containing explanations and proofs about the mathematics discussed in the tutorials.

Exploring Bioethics-developed with the NIH Department of Bioethics and written by Education Development Center, Inc.-supports high school biology teachers in raising and addressing bioethical issues with their students and engages students in rigorous thinking and discussions. By providing conceptual guidelines that promote careful thinking about difficult cases, it stresses the importance of presenting thoughtful and relevant reasons for considered positions on ethical issues.

Collaborize Classroom™ allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and private online community. Get 100% student participation. Save on monthly printing costs. Reduce grading time by up to 2 hours per week. *Yes, it will always be free!

Nice article--covers a lot of the territory we've been discussing. Will be interesting to see where this goes in Milton.

Sean, this is great! I think I will have "Edcamp" send out a few myths at a time to encourage people to come. Someone mentioned that they had a discussion with another SDM employee who didn't want to come because there wasn't an agenda ahead of time. Maybe this will change their mind.

Protocols for Online Discussions

The 21st Century Teacher is a brand new online community devoted solely to education in the 21st Century. Create and join discussion groups - Submit your thoughts to the community blog  -  share online resources...and much more.