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Videos Find Their Place In and Out of the Classroom - 0 views

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    Among today's students, videos as an educational tool are as expected as textbooks. A new study has found that 68 percent of students watch videos in class, and 79 percent watch them on their own time, outside of class, to assist in their learning.
csharrio

Why Aren't More Schools Using Free, Open Tools? - 0 views

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    One school in Pennsylvania is using open-source tools wherever possible to keep students close to the code behind the machines they use. This stance is opposite to the very restrictive policies of many schools, but could allow students more freedom to explore what makes devices work.
csharrio

Turn your PowerPoint into an interactive online exercise! Mix For Microsoft Office 2013 - - 1 views

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    Add video, create and embed quizzes, and track which slides students view and for how long, all for Free! This fun and pretty powerful plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint (only works on Office 2013) may be your next best friend! It may also be a fun tool for your students to express learning outcomes by creating their very own presentation! Give it a try!
Jim Aird

Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class - The Washingt... - 0 views

  • Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
  • I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction.
  • Professors are at least as bad at estimating how interesting we are as the students are at estimating their ability to focus.
Marjorie Shepard

Avoiding the Trap of the Info Dump for Online Course Announcements - 0 views

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    "...this is a time-management strategy for overwhelmed faculty. "I'm swamped for time so let me just blast this all out at once. Phew. I've done my part; now the rest is up to them." In struggling to help manage our own information overload, we pass the overload along to our students. I don't believe it's our intention to pass the buck, but you know what they say about good intentions.
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