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How to Assign and Grade a Multimedia Project | Teaching Commons - 0 views

  • So how do you make the assignment an effective and engaging learning experience for your students? And how do you evaluate the projects once they’re complete? The new Multimedia Best Practices and Rubric: A Guide to the What, Why, & How was designed to guide you through this often-daunting process to craft multimedia assignments that are beneficial, productive, and fun. Further, it helps you evaluate the different components of the projects based on a number of criteria no matter what the medium.
Enoch Hale

Professors' Place in the Classroom Is Shifting to the Side - Teaching - The Chronicle o... - 2 views

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    Fascinating to read the comment thread on this piece, too.
Yin Wah Kreher

Why I Am Teaching a Course Called "Wasting Time on the Internet" - The New Yorker - 0 views

  • What I’ve learned from these years in the classroom is that no matter what we do, we can’t help but express ourselves. Similarly, I have no doubt that the students in “Wasting Time on the Internet” will use Web surfing as a form of self-expression. Every click is indicative of who we are: indicative of our likes, our dislikes, our emotions, our politics, our world view.
Tom Woodward

Planning for Pink Time | Thoughts - 2 views

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    Worth keeping mind . . . . "Originally, reading about the assignment for what we have to do for class on Wednesday I got kind of annoyed. I am not good at open ended assignments and they frankly frustrate me to no end."
Tom Woodward

Hypertext As Semantic Tailorability - #thougtvectors - 2 views

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    This is fabulous, Tom. Thanks for sharing. Forwarding on to my students !read
sanamuah

Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight | MindShift - 0 views

  • Never Alone There’s little debate that games have not represented indigenous cultures well. As a result, it’s been best for students to learn about topics like Native America via traditional means. Never Alone, however, sets a precedent for respectful representation of indigenous people. It was co-developed with native Alaskans, and it illuminates Inupiat stories, themes and values, weaving into play important concepts like interconnectedness and valuable skills like cooperation. Best of all, it features documentary-style videos of the Inupiat people who provide first person context for the conceptual and cultural learning embedded in the game.
Enoch Hale

In a Fake Online Class With Students Paid to Cheat, Could Professors Catch the Culprits... - 1 views

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    "Alvin Malesky, an associate professor and head of the psychology department at Western Carolina U.: Online-cheating services can "do medicine or chemistry or English - it runs the gamut. All sides of the academic house are threatened by this.""
anonymous

Babson Group reflects on final report on online education enrollments - 0 views

  • In fall 2002, about 27 percent of administrators said faculty members accepted online courses as a legitimate method of delivering education. When the Babson Group ran its survey last fall, 29.1 percent of administrators said the same. The report describes that lack of progress as a “continuing failure of online education.”
  • “We’ve basically reached a point where everybody for whom [online education] is important for their institution is fully on board,” Seaman said.
  • Other than helping students who may not have been able to physically attend classes pursue higher education, distance education has had “very little impact,” he said.
Tom Woodward

Ted Nelson at Mid-term | Hosna - 0 views

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    "Nelson goes on to say that "Education ought to be clear, inviting and enjoyable, without booby-traps, humiliations, condescension or boredom. It ought to teach and reward initiative, curiosity, the habit of self-motivation, intellectual involvement." This reminded of this course. So far I can honestly say that I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. Many of my previous online courses were extremely repetitive and the assignments were very bland. We did the same thing over and over again every week. Read the article and write a post about it. We are taught to question things in this course. We are pushed to be creative and research topics that we cannot find easy answers to. We are not punished for our opinions, rather rewarded for getting our creative juices flowing. One of my favorite assignments was the one where we had to search a question that we already knew the answer to. I had no idea that my question about the S on superman's chest would lead to gender equality. It taught me to always take a deeper look. This course is the kind of course Nelson was talking about. It's unique, and definitely meets his criteria." h/t Jon
Tom Woodward

Progress Report | Not So Far Far Away... - 0 views

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    " also share a lot of your concerns about specifics, but I think I've found a way to work my brain around it. You're absolute right; we've been conditioned to think in terms of exact numbers. We're used to being told our posts should be 200 words with 4 paragraphs and exactly 8 links to external sources, so that's how we've learned to function. I think this class has been great for me to retrain my brain to think creatively rather than within the confines of instructions. For length, I just make sure I answer the question. I ask myself if I feel that my answer is appropriate, or if I should go into more detail. It helps me if I stop focusing on the grade (as hard as that is) and instead focus on the assignment itself. If I can answer the question with detail in two sentences, I feel like two sentences is a perfectly fine entry. Most of the time, my entries are 2-3 paragraphs. I just write down what I'm thinking, rather than trying to filter through "Is this what Dr. Becker wants to see?" I think my work looks a lot better when I'm focused on what I think looks respectable, rather than trying to mold myself to what I think others may expect of me." h/t Jon
Yin Wah Kreher

Why I teach 'in the wild' | Teaching in the wild - 3 views

  • Teaching in the wild has not only allowed me to create my ‘own signature’, but it has empowered my students to learn about social media through using social media, and to leverage the web to create their own professional digital footprint.
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    This #ccourses post Why I teach in the wild is about someone who uses the web to #TeachTheWeb (and everything else): http://t.co/c8szkMmExP - Laura Hilliger (@epilepticrabbit) November 17, 2014
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