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Rick West

Ten Reasons Students Don't Participate in Online Discussions & How to Remedy Each | Onl... - 0 views

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    How many schools are out there that use online discussions?
Rick West

Pear Deck - 0 views

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    cool new approach to engaging online students in discussion around presentations.
Rick West

Online Dating: Harder to Find Future Spouse on Internet? | Healthland | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Digital dating is now the second most common way that couples get together, after meeting through friends.
  • Once potential partners meet, in other words, other characteristics take precedence over the ones they thought were important.
  • the best prognosticators of how people will get along come from the encounters between them. In other words, it’s hard to tell whether Jim and Sue will be happy together simply by comparing a list of their preferences, perspectives and personality traits before they meet. Stronger predictors of possible romance include the tenor of their conversations, the subject of their discussions, or what they choose to do together.
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  • the sheer number of candidates that some sites provide their love-seeking singles — which can range from dozens to hundreds — can actually undermine the process of finding a suitable mate. The fact that candidates are screened via their profiles already sets up a judgmental, “shopping” mentality that can lead people to objectify their potential partners.
  • “Online dating sites have a vested interest in your failure. If you succeed, the site loses two paying customers.”
  • A few weeks of email and photo exchanging serves to enhance people’s attraction when they finally meet, researchers found, but when the correspondence goes on too long — for six weeks — it skews people’s expectations and ends up lowering their attraction upon meeting.
Rick West

TodaysMeet - Give everyone a voice - 0 views

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    Could be cool in some ways, but could be distracting too. I like that you can pause it when needed for this reason. This is a tool for hosting backchannel convos in class.
David Wetzel

Elearning Replaces the Traditional Model of Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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    Emerging Web 2.0 technologies are discussed in the perspective of how elearning is evolving into a future dominated by personal learning environments.
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