O thy virtues, thou blog and bloggers. Seest thou this day the new dimension that thou hast brought to mankind and to pets.
I tell you, this is fast education
Survey finds faculty divided on social media in the classroom Do you friend your students on Facebook? Do you tweet, or use Twitter in the classroom? Do you network on LinkedIn, and participate in its groups? Does your college or university have a social media policy?
Karen Cator, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about ways her office can help connect higher education professionals with one another to share best practices for using technology, something that is not happening now.
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Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?
Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?
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.
What makes any assessment in education formative is not merely that it precedes summative assessments, but that the performer has opportunities, if results are less than optimal, to reshape the
performance to better achieve the goal. In summative assessment, the feedback comes too late; the performance is over.
Although the universal teacher lament that there's no time for such feedback is understandable, remember that "no time to give and use feedback"
actually means "no time to cause learning." As we have seen, research shows that less teaching plus more
feedback is the key to achieving greater learning. And there are numerous ways—through technology, peers, and other teachers—that students can get
the feedback they need.
This article gives simple explanations of benefits behind the use of social media at all levels of education and how students can enhance their education.
Even as today's college student experiences a variety of classroom forms (i.e., "brick and mortar", virtual, hybrid), social media's use and influence are evolving depending on context. Widely embraced as a tool for personal or business purposes, the notion that social media could be an effective tool for educational purposes has received recent attention. #TT1711
Do Popular Social Networking Applications Have A Place In The Classroom? A Growing Number Of Educators Say 'Yes'. The post, "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter", is one of the most consistently viewed article on this site. Similarly, "Facebook As An Instructional Technology Tool", resulted in the 2nd most trafficked day here in 2010.
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. It provides educators with access to images, videos, music, and graphic all with less restrictive rights for using the material. For example, you go right from Creative Comments to Flickr images that you can use. The one caveat while searching for content, be careful not to use a different search term, because you will be searching in the regular libraries. When want search for a different, go back to Creative Commons and search from there.
The underuse of video in post-secondary online learning Video is not being used enough in online learning in post-secondary education. When used it is often an afterthought or an 'extra', rather than an integral part of the design, or is used merely to replicate a classroom lecture, rather than exploiting the unique characteristics of video.