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Patrick Tabatcher

Hemingway - 1 views

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writing Editing

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 17 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 17 Feb 14
     
    A nifty web-based (with desktop option) writing tool that helps you edit by identifying sentences that may be hard to read. Also identifies use of adverbs, passive voice and words that can by simplified.
wlampner

Snowed in? Have Class Online | UNC-CH Teaching & Learning Blog - 0 views

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shared by wlampner on 22 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 22 Jan 16
     
    DDS - anyone want to volunteer to write a similar blog post?
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Present on iPad | bContext - 0 views

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mobile ipad Apps present

shared by wlampner on 26 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 26 Oct 15
     
    "With bContext users can add hand writing notations and narrative to static documents (such as PDF, PPT, or any image)."
wlampner

Kyle Bowen: Robot Writers, Open Education, and the Future of Edtech | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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OER textbooks future ELI

shared by wlampner on 07 Dec 17 - No Cached
  • Bowen is part of a team that has developed algorithms for computers to learn how to write textbooks by extracting factual information.
  • The single most exciting aspect for him, he explains, is accessibility. The advent of free or low-cost textbooks for underserved populations — especially within STEM fields, which advance so quickly that traditional books are typically out of date the moment they’re printed — is a very exciting prospect and, as Bowen puts it, ‘a powerful idea.’
  • just who owns the copyright if the final deliverable qualifies as a derivative work?
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  • if a machine writes a textbook or other resource, who is the author?
  • he platform uses intelligent algorithms that search through OER repositories and return relevant resources that can be combined, remixed, and reused in the support of specific learning goals.
  • We could even have entire learning spaces that adapt to suit the specific needs of faculty or students
Patrick Tabatcher

Teaching the Support team how to fish by Mig Reyes of 37signals - 0 views

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support

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 18 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • writing fully-packed guides
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 18 Feb 13
     
    A technical overview of how 37signals set up their new help site. Check out their help guides. 
wlampner

The Making of a Teaching Evangelist - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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problem_based_learning active_learning lecture

shared by wlampner on 20 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Mr. Mazur realized what he had really been teaching them: to memorize formulas.
  • Joy is not a word that often describes the lecture.
  • One humanities professor wrote last year that lectures work because they demand that students pay close attention, connect ideas, and understand how to build an argument.
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  • Mr. Mazur wondered whether lecturing was an ethical teaching choice.
  • a lecture is only as passive as the listener
  • Students learn when they think about what they’re hearing and organize it into salient points. "This places the responsibility for learning on the student,
  • modern zeitgeist places the responsibility on the instructor.
  • Lecturing, he says, serves another important purpose. It reaffirms the importance of expertise and allows students to see how an expert role-models the process of working through a problem.
  • Learning is not a spectator sport,"
  • Lectures are inexpensive for institutions, allowing hundreds of students to be assigned to one faculty member.
  • Mr. Mazur often likes to cite education research suggesting that students overestimate how much they learn from a smoothly delivered lecture.
  • The lecture creates the perfect illusion
  • Students read material before class on an online platform
  • Students post comments on the reading and respond to one another’s annotations
  • comments drive the next class.
  • o answer each problem, students do four things: articulate the problem in their own words, devise a plan to answer it, execute it, and evaluate how well it worked.
  • omplete the problem sets alone before class and work in teams during it to correct errors
  • not graded on how correct their answers are but on their effort and their accuracy in judging how well they understood the problem.
  • udents do complete five hourlong "Readiness Assurance Activities" during the semester. In the first half-hour they solve the problems alone; they can consult the internet but not one another. In the second, they go over the problems again, this time with their teams. Their scores reflect individual mastery and collective contribution.
  • Project-based learning is the center of the new course. Students work in teams. Many projects have low-stakes competitions attached to them, like constructing the most secure safe by using magnets as locks. Other projects have an explicit social benefit, like building musical instruments for an orchestra for poor children in Venezuela.
  • Mr. Mazur has moved himself far offstage; he missed about 40 percent of the meetings this past semester. Class just rolls on without him.
  • Peers, Mr. Mazur says, are a far greater source of motivation than a professor.
  • His syllabus dedicates two paragraphs to the virtues of failure
  • They should see failures, he writes, as "learning opportunities, not negatives, as steppingstones to success."
  • Repeated failure, as he has learned, is necessary for success.
wlampner

How to Prepare Professors Who Thought They'd Never Teach Online - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

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elearning faculty_training tools lightboard

shared by wlampner on 21 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • hat comes through in the video, imperfect as it surely is, is a sense of authenticity.
  • watching a clip repeatedly isn’t a bad thing when it comes to learning.
  • He had been worried about making his lecture videos perfect — thinking that he had to give a command performance every time the camera was rolling, as if he were in a Hollywood production
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  • "I don’t expect hyper-efficiency when I teach face to face.
  • ig called a "lightboard," designed a few years ago by a professor at Northwestern University
  • It’s not just that it looks cool, it actually works better
  • autions the professor not to write so much on the board that it blocks her face.
  • 20 minutes of "pre-draw
  • ready to rehearse
  • five-minute lecture twice, each time noting how long it takes and how well she stays focused on the points she wants to emphasize. The goal is to shoot the video in one take, so there is no room for flubs
  • need to let the camera linger on the professor for a few seconds after her lecture so that the video doesn’t appear to end abruptly
  • he tries to think about the students who will be out there watching, eventually. But for now she is bathed in harsh light in a windowless concrete box, remembering to smile
  • It took well over an hour to produce the five-minute clip
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