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When University of California, Davis student Anthony Nguyen wants to spelunk a little more deeply into the day's geology lesson, he knows help is just a click away. All the college senior has to do is visit YouTube.com, a file-sharing Web site typically known more for recorded stunts and home-video confessionals than for educational wisdom.

Students taking a course through the City Colleges of Chicago's Center for Distance Learning are expected to complete this quiz as part of the course's Week 1 orientation activities.

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.

Source: https://edtechbooks.org/k12blended/online_interaction

Need some ready-made content to enhance the experience. Look no further TeacherTube is here!

A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. It provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time devel- oping the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one.

Presentation for the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs (PICPA) Friday, July 13th, 2012 Hotel Hershey, Hershey, PA Technology in Accounting Education: Learning Support and Professional Readiness Suzanne C. Shaffer, M.Ed., M.S.Ed. Instructional Designer Penn State York Campus scs15@psu.edu Outline PowerPoint Context (broad and specific) of technology in accounting education Current use of technology in accounting education...

I have added a bookmark for an article about college readiness. This topic is particularly popular as of late, especially with Math and English.

Lots of ready-made flashcards and quizzes here for self-assessment

Take the quiz. See if you are ready for social media in your class

The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you're trying to teach. We still have to focus on the task at hand. Don't mistake social media for socializing.

Khan Academy has great ready made videos for A&P students needing additional support in their studies. I highly recommend their content and videos.

Performance assessment, also known as alternative or authentic assessment, is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list. For example, a student may be asked to explain historical events, generate scientific hypotheses, solve math problems, converse in a foreign language, or conduct research on an assigned topic. Experienced raters--either teachers or other trained staff--then judge the quality of the student's work based on an agreed-upon set of criteria. This new form of assessment is most widely used to directly assess writing ability based on text produced by students under test instructions

Student confidence to learn online is predictive of the student learning experience.