It's midweek at Anywhere State University. Jenny rolls out of bed at about nine a.m., as usual, and thinks about breakfast and her first class. As she's dressing and getting ready to go out, she fires up iTunes on her laptop and checks her podcast subscription.
I've been experimenting with virtual labs in my physics courses - here's a bit of independent support for that notion. So far I've simply used the University of Colorado PhET site, but am interested to find other sources too. Wonder if anyone else has taken a more considered approach to multimedia "virtual" learning tools.
History, description and subscription information to the first multimedia, interactive born-digital journal for Black Studies. Distributed through JSTOR.
Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado is an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, and receives major funding from the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.
I am using VoiceThread for students to create digital stories to share about their research projects. Other students will peer review, comment, and write a reflection. Use VoiceThread Search Box terms "online teaching" to find Projects created for Online Courses.
College course work is meant to be challenging. The content and the vocabulary used are often unfamiliar to many students. For at-risk learners, the challenges are even greater.
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Hello Tess,
I went digging on tumblr. I hope this helps.
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website, The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private.
I have attached some links to support your reading on tumblr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblrhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1z5CgSt_tc8https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spQcyqQqN1o
The primary purpose of VoiceThread is to provide students with the ability to collaborate with fellow students on their websites or save to MP3 or DVD. The tool is used by students to upload multimedia material by microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload.