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Paul Beaufait

Building Communities--Strategies for Collaborative Learning - 2002 - ASTD - 0 views

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  • E-learning communities are groups of people connected solely via technology. All interactions begin and occur over the Internet, through conference calls, via videoconferencing, and so forth. These communities promote virtual collaboration that's focused on addressing a specific topic, and they are supported by one or more online learning and media tools.
  • Blended learning communities integrate online learning and face-to-face meetings. Two core assumptions of this type of community are 1) deep personal relationships between learners create richer collaborative learning experiences and 2) relationships between learners can be strengthened through structured group interactions that employ technology before and/or after a face-to-face learning event.
  • For example, a leadership development program might include an ice-breaker community to provide prework and introduce participants, a face-to-face experiential workshop to help clarify and define individual development objectives, and a follow-up community that focuses on coaching and mentoring to overcome challenges as participants achieve their objectives.
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  • Whether creating a community for e-learning or one that supports a blended learning approach, community builders must consider a variety of factors related to people, group processes, and technology--if they're to design and orchestrate online environments that inspire collaborative learning.
  • As the term community has become an ambiguous buzzword, the concept has become synonymous with online discussion boards and chat rooms. When put into a learning context, however, community can be a vehicle for connecting people to other people’s stories and experiences, as well as mentoring, all of which result in accelerated learning and the sharing of tacit knowledge within an organization.
  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Sep 09
     
    Suggests communities support collaboration
  • Paul Beaufait on 12 Jan 10
     
    Identifies "Types of learning communities" and suggests how to create them.
Paul Beaufait

E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Editing and Producing Podcasts - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 09
     
    So far in this series of posts about Podcasting for E-Learning from the E-Learning Curve Blog, I've covered a lot of material, including: A Brief History of Audio in Education The Four 'P's' of narration Introduction to Audio Production Digital Audio Basics Now, it's time to look in some depth at editing and producing podcast content.
Paul Beaufait

Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail: Transmittal Organiza... - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 28 Jan 11
     
    "A transmittal e-mail introduces a forwarded e-mail or an attachment that is too long or complex to send as an e-mail (¶1).
Paul Beaufait

E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning - Tour of Audacity's User Interface - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 09
     
    Translate tape editing metaphor to digital recording tool
Paul Beaufait

E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Setting Audacity Preferences - 0 views

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Audacity podcasting_tools_tutorials_videos

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 09
     
    Illustrated guide to preparation for recording
Paul Beaufait

E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Recording with Audacity - 1 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 09
     
    Step by step illustrated guide
Paul Beaufait

SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011 - 0 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • several problems are inherent in machine scoring. First, though Ferris (2003) claimed that students will improve over time if they are given appropriate error correction and that students use teacher-generated feedback to revise things other than surface errors, students rarely use programs like MY Access! to revise anything other than surface errors (Warschauer & Grimes, 2008); paragraph elements, information structure, and register-specific stylistics are largely ignored. Second, although teachers can create their own prompts for use with the program (more than 900 prompts are built into MY Access! to which students can write and receive instantaneous feedback.), MY Access! will score only those prompts included in the program. Third, regarding essay length, in many cases, MY Access! seems to reward longer essays with higher scores; consequently, it appears that MY Access! assumes that length is a proxy for fluency.
  • Overall, students’ opinions regarding MY Access! were mixed; students found useful aspects as well as aspects they termed less helpful.
  • Some students found working with the program very helpful in discipline, encouraging multiple revision. Others liked working with the many tools provided, finding them very helpful in the revision process. On the other hand, some students, lacking basic computer skills, found the program stressful and unusable. Others were discouraged by the seeming overabundance of feedback; in some cases, writers found it overwhelming, so they tended to disregard it. Our most disheartening finding: When some of the students were unhappy with their scores, they found ways to raise them by simply inserting unrelated text to their essays.
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  • They appreciated the help MY Access! offered in finding grammar errors, but they were not always sure how to fix them. Further, the program offered no positive comments about what students were doing well, which could negatively impact student motivation. In addition, after working on a prompt once or twice, many became bored and wanted to switch to another prompt. Many of the student writers used MY Access! for surface editing only and rarely used it for revision. In general, students in this study did not use features in MY Access! (e.g. My Portfolio, My Editor), possibly because their teachers did not explicitly assign them.
  • Locally controlled assessment is important; when assessments are created from within, they are specific to one context―they are developed with a very specific group of students in mind, considering what those students have learned in their classes and what they are expected to be able to do as a result of what they have learned in that context. Standardized tools such as the many machine-grading programs available today cannot address this specificity.
  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Though Crusan (2010), Ericsson and Haswell (2006), and Shermis and Burstein (2003) offered a more thorough treatment of machine scoring in general, in this article, I concentrate on one program―MY Access! (Vantage Learning, 2007)―briefly describing it and discussing a small study conducted in a graduate writing assessment seminar at a midsize Midwestern university in which graduate students examined second language writers' attitudes about using the program as a feedback and assessment tool for their writing in a sheltered ESL writing class" (¶2).
Paul Beaufait

Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Why Format Is Important With E-Mail - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 03 Jun 11
     
    Six major points "to keep in mind when formatting e-mail to make it as readable as possible" (para. 4).
Paul Beaufait

Amazon.com: Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods, and Practices (Count... - 2 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 20 Mar 10
     
    Friesen, Norm. (2009). .... New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
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    includes narrative, genre, post-cognitivist psychology, phenomenology, and critical theory
Paul Beaufait

E-Portfolios for Learning: Conversation with Teacher Educator - 1 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 09
     
    Describes another teacher educators decision to abandon a "rigid commercial system" and adopt WordPress blogs for blog portfolio developments (and possible replication in other learning and teaching venues
Paul Beaufait

Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - 10 Rules for Clear, Direct Wording - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Jun 11
     
    "10 rules for clear, direct wording" of "business e-mail" messages
Paul Beaufait

Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail - Paragraphing - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 03 Feb 11
     
    Provides rationales and tips for paragraph formation in mail messages to make them reader-friendly
Paul Beaufait

Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail - Clarity and Focus - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11
     
    Ten rules for writing effective mail messages that the Writing Center, Inc., will explore in coming weeks.
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