The debate surrounding social media as a learning tool is unlikely to abate any time soon. Is it just a distraction, or do the interactive educational tools available outweigh any disadvantages? Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are becoming steadily more integrated within a variety of apps targeted at learning.
This article posed another question for me to learn and identify the access for an educatinoal community having reach to the equipment to use technolgies. The artilcle identifies a campus population and access to computer. Also, stating the literacy of the campus and use of equipment that access technologies.
This course site and presentation will illustrate how the "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (Chickering and Gamson, 1991) can be supported using the features of Blackboard Learn. Several online course design rubrics will also guide our showcase of quality instructional design options related to course structure, navigation, activities, assignments (individual and group), and communication. "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (Chickering and Gamson, 1991), states a quality teaching and learning environment is one that: (1) Encourages contact between students and faculty, (2) Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, (3) Encourages active learning, (4) Gives prompt feedback, (5) Emphasizes time on task, (6) Communicates high expectations, and (7) Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.
An article on Twitter for teachers, from Edudemic, a site that distributes stories around teaching, learning, and the impact of technology on education.
In addition to the comment that populated itself below, I want to add that this link contains a list of etiquette rules for Twitter that I think are very useful for a newbie.
Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here's a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic's archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts.
With CloudVOTE, you can upload, store and manage your personal or business presentation templates and never have to worry about the content again. No one can modify the content once it's stored as a template, so simply log in, start a poll from an existing template and collect feedback from your audience. ----Bookmark by M Brown for Technology Tools course march 2016
Excel is one of the most widely used softwares in accounting. Here is an interesting article talking about Excel and whether it will survive in the future.
This is a good introductory treatment of Social Constructivism, which sets the stage well for what social networking tools might be able to do for us in education.
I have been hearing a lot about Tableau and how it is being used in accounting. This is a link to the website where you can find out about this great software. Students are eligible for a one-year free access.
Video lessons are one of the primary technology tools used to deliver content in blended/flipped classrooms. The learning happens at home and when students are in class, they participate in active-learning activities or group work. Great to try out with a few lessons in f2f classes as well. It greatly increases student engagement and participation.
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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
These online collaboration tools will enable students to communicate and collaborate fast and easily. This will sustain their interest, improve focus and they would be able to contribute in best possible way and get quality results in turn.