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Norma Glennon

Measuring your team's communication quotient | MindLeaders Blog - 1 views

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    In order to give and receive information, it is essential to be aware of your openness to communication. Understanding the others in your "conversation" is the first step towards choosing media that will keep them engaged. A true-false quiz is linked to the post.
Janice McGuire

Goalbook | Individual Learning Plans - 1 views

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      This would be a great tool to assist special educators and special education teams including parents in communicating regularly.  It also visually shows the progress on IEP goals.  It would make progress monitoring so much easier.  It would also encourage measurable goals and documentation.
  • Goalbook brings a student's team around their individual learning plan
Mary Ann Foncello

Writing Multiple Choice Questions For Higher Order Thinking: Instructional Design and e... - 4 views

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    The article suggests 3 approaches to develop multiple choice questions to assess higher-order thinking skills. Students can be asked to respond to real-world scenarios, analyze visuals such as diagrams and graphs, and synthesize explanations that support the answer. Included are samples of questions that measure these higher-order skills.
NIM Facilitator

Cell Portfolio Voicethread - 10 views

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    Voicethread as part of a cell lab portfolio is to better understand how to use microscopes and learn how to measure cells. We think that we should learn more about the parts of cells, and how to work together as a team.
Jason Finley

Creating Effective Responses to Student Discussion Postings - 4 views

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    An integral part of nearly all online classes is the threaded discussion-it is where students interact on a nearly daily basis, posting their thoughts and information on main discussion topics, your postings, and the postings of other students. While you have measured control over the content, length, and tone of student postings, you have full control over your own. To ensure that your responses to student postings in discussion are effective, incorporate the following ideas:
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    Great ideas in this article to provide insightful feedback in student discussion posts. * Be professional and sure that the info is consistent * Be a good role model * Show your personality and humor * Include the entire class in any post * Use examples from your life * Ask further questions to stimulate more discussion * Create a bank of responses All great reminders for me to keep things fresh and interesting! Thanks!
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    In this article, Errol Sull provides us many good reminders of what we should be doing to make sure our online learning environment is effective and positive for our students. I feel confident in his guidelines because he's been teaching in the online environment for fifteen years. His suggestions also make sense in both an online and f2f discussion.
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    This article by Errol Sull presents us with suggestions for online discussions. I personally have been nervous about having all class online discussions after a Moodle incident I had last year. Fortunately, my Moodle settings were set so that only two students were able to get a at each other. I will apply these ideas to my classes in August.
Sharon Blanchard

Creating TRAILS by Julie A. Gedeon and Barbara F. Schloman - 1 views

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    If you are outside of Massachusetts you may not be able to access this article. Trails (Tools for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) is a tool designed by Kent State University to measure the information literacy skills of high school students. It is designed as a classroom tool that enables a teacher or librarian to "obtain a snapshot of skill levels in order to better tailor instructional efforts."
anonymous

Exam tests students' skills, not memories - 0 views

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    Article on the College and Work Readiness Assessment which measures problem solving and analytical skills.
Susanne Gibbs

The Creativity Crisis - 1 views

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    This focus of this article is the Torrence Test which measure a persons creativity level. Scores show creativity levels in US students declining, most likely do to the lack of creative development in the schools and at home.
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