tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66887881447500117942024-02-07T00:18:59.478-06:00Online Ed*Spotlwapelhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969389518140134260noreply@blogger.comBlogger610125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-33128722815689643792016-03-28T08:46:00.000-05:002016-03-28T08:46:20.881-05:00Free Technology for TeachersI am not necessarily a fan of free tech tools. Too often they are limited in ability, poorly supported, or trials to entice you to buy a pricier item. I take my job seriously and if I need good tools, I want them to work properly. If I have to pay for them, then it is because I value them and their developers.<br />
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That said, I checked out the website for the proposed speaker for SIDLIT 2016. Richard Byrne's <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/" target="_blank">Free Technology for Teachers</a> is a blog that hits the trifecta of being well-written, well-designed and up-to-date. The content targets a WIDE range of subjects and ages as well. As who is to say that an item targeted at high schools won't work for an incoming college freshman?<br />
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I also appreciate his style - a trendy, breezy one, but one that works well for online readers, using lots of short lists and chunked paragraphs. For a busy professional who wants to scan headings before digging deeper - good reading.<br />
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Put it on a feed of your choice (RSS, Pinterest, Google+ etc) or do the old-fashioned thing and bookmark the site. Regardless, this is a site that instructors from all disciplines can dip into to find that tool to make your life and those of your students a bit smoother.<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-8844164614461951782016-03-14T16:20:00.000-05:002016-03-14T16:20:06.225-05:00Crash Course!I found Hank and John Green a few weeks ago as I was developing a workshop for using humor online. They are well known vloggers who have a TON of videos out there. Most notable for higher education is the series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse" target="_blank">Crash Course</a>.<br />
These are 5-7 minute videos on a wide range of subjects appropriate to many gen ed courses. Not that you can substitute any of these for more direct approaches but they make a humorous break, particularly for intimidating or otherwise dreaded subject matter. Subjects include: philosophy, US history, World History, government, economics, chemistry and anatomy and physiology.<br />
This guys come across so completely laid back and knowledgeable, that they make for great fun even if you aren't taking notes for that next test. Reminds me of something that the Mental Floss folks might do.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-31054928924991763722016-02-15T15:29:00.000-06:002016-02-15T15:29:25.717-06:00Hear this<a href="http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/" target="_blank">Free Sound Effects! </a><br />
I was browsing some of my old Bookmarks and found this site that has free sound effects. The company appears to be a professional production company that has been around for a while.<br />
There is quite a range of effects, categories, and formats. You are no longer stuck with whatever the tool you are using has to offer, or spending a lot of time surfing for the sound of a magic wand, or someone clearing their throat, or an inkjet printer, or falling coins...<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-34412908723792768792016-02-10T08:00:00.000-06:002016-02-10T08:00:11.135-06:00Drive Instruction With Digital BadgesIs digital badging the future of digital learning?<br />
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Currently, I'm developing a professional development course titled, Gamify Your Canvas Course. This course walks faculty through the process of creating their own digital badges for their students. I'm doing this because I often find myself motivated by a simple token or digital badge. I think of this as the trophy room on the PS4 or Xbox. Most games are filled with rewards and digital tokens you can unlock.<br />
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The big questions will be, Will this gamification of courses catch on with online faculty? Do employers care if job applicants have digital badges? This <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-31-so-you-want-to-drive-instruction-with-digital-badges-start-with-the-teachers" target="_blank">article </a>highlights that digital badging should start in professional development first. What are your thoughts?<br />
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Digital badging have 5 features:<br />
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<li><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.54px; line-height: 32.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.54px; line-height: 32.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.54px; line-height: 32.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Badging allows for knowledge circulation among teachers.</strong></strong></strong></li>
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.8820248427800834" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";"><i><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student."</span></i></span><br />
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"In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton described his laws of universal gravitation and motion in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. While he was clearly contemplating something other than interactions between teachers and students, his Second Law (Law of Motion) posits that Force equals Mass times Acceleration (F = M x A).<br />
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With a generous bit of literary license, we can borrow from Sir Isaac and posit that in terms of student outcomes, Achievement equals Quality Instruction times Innovation (A = QI x I).<br />
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The impact of a good teacher is profound. It trumps just about every other variable influencing schooling. No one questions the significance of a skilled teacher who knows both their content and their kids well. Tracy Kidder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, wrote in 1990 that “Good teachers put snags in the river of children passing by, and over the years they redirect hundreds of lives.” I think that he got it right."<br />
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Here is a set of Gooru tips that *might* inspire me, and maybe you too, to do some cool things with Google Spreadsheets.<br />
<a href="https://www.thegooru.com/5-little-known-sheets-functions-i-use-everyday/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuq3AZKXonjHpfsX66u4vUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CRcJmI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTbHMMat6w7gKWxc%3D" target="_blank">5 Little Known Google Sheets Functions Someone Uses Everyday</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-45622970490650296142015-12-02T13:00:00.000-06:002015-12-02T13:00:04.881-06:00Are ‘Learning Styles’ a Symptom of Education’s Ills?<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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The NY Times reveals "learning styles" as a largely baseless theory.</h3>
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"According to some education researchers, it may not matter. They say the idea of teaching according to students’ “preferred learning styles” — auditory, visual or kinesthetic — has little to no empirical backing. But although criticism may be denting the idea’s popularity, it still persists — which may say something larger about the way teachers today are trained."</div>
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<a href="http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/are-learning-styles-a-symptom-of-educations-ills/?_r=0" target="_blank">Read here for the full article.</a> </div>
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Here is a collection of websites that realistically address the use of Twitter. They also address the idea of taking charge of directing the use of this powerful social media tool.<br />
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<b><a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/education/how-to-use-twitter-in-your-teaching-practice/" target="_blank">Guide to Using Twitter in your Teaching Practice </a></b>; this is a blog post from KQED with emphasis on online safety tips, netiquette, reasons and suggestions for using Twitter, and most importantly Twitter 101, resources to quickly make instructors feel comfortable, even competent in using Twitter.<br />
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<b><a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/teaching/resources/twitter-best-practices-2012.html" target="_blank"><span id="goog_964767236"></span>Best Practices and tips for the higher ed classroom,</a><span id="goog_964767237"></span></b> is less comprehensive but a great tone and aimed at getting you up to speed quickly.<br />
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Here is a 6 page downloadable <a href="https://www.ivcc.edu/uploadedFiles/cetla/Events/Using%20Twitter%20for%20Higher%20Education.pdf" target="_blank">P<b>DF from Illinois Valley Community College</b></a> that provides a quickstart guide to using Twitter.<br />
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A bunch of ideas for using Twitter are proposed <b><a href="http://findonlineeducation.com/tools/35-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-higher-education/" target="_blank">here</a></b> - some useful, some obvious, and some really intriguing.<br />
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Twitter may evolve into something totally different before long. Who knows? But the connections that are possible with social media (and the responsibilities) should resonate and strengthen your teaching for years to come.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-51971953778414447632015-11-09T10:30:00.000-06:002015-11-09T10:30:00.380-06:00Stress management for the online student<b><a href="http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2014-12-10/6-Stress-Management-Tips-for-Online-Students.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">6 stress management tips for the online student</span></a></b><br />
Why didn't we address this sooner? Nothing profound or earthshaking but this might be a good link to share with your students - maybe in an Announcement. Maybe time it to coincide with finals or midterms or a big paper?<br />
A little yoga, maybe?<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-13462949279762928082015-11-04T08:00:00.000-06:002015-11-04T08:00:02.517-06:00Creating music playlists for the right task?I enjoy listening to music while working but never thought of creating specific playlists for certain tasks while working. In the below image, you can match your type of task with the type of music. This is based on research although individual experience may vary. Everyone that knows me, knows I'm not that far from a cup of coffee when working on projects. Even as I type this I'm sipping on java.<br />
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<a href="https://community.articulate.com/articles/using-toys-for-storytelling-in-elearning" target="_blank">Using tools for story telling</a> It is not a totally new idea but one worth exploring.<br />
Further perspectives can be found in Jennifer Valley's <a href="http://jennifervalley.blogspot.com/2015/03/my-elearning-toy-box.html" target="_blank">Elearning Toybox</a> post,<br />
Inspiration can be found in the <a href="https://community.articulate.com/articles/examples-toys-elearning-courses" target="_blank">results</a> of an elearning challenge<br />
What's hiding in your toyroom?<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-63690775527207999752015-10-21T08:35:00.001-05:002015-10-21T08:35:08.471-05:00Easily Create a Word Cloud in Google Documents<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 20.592px;">Word clouds can help students analyze documents written by others as well as documents of their own creation. The Google Documents Add-on called Tag Cloud Generator makes it easy for students to generate a word cloud within any of their documents. In the video embedded below on a demonstration on how to use this handy Google Docs Add-on.</span><br />
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dMarie Time Capsule allows you to enter any date and then choose what headlines, birthdays and other social aspects of society you wish to include. Or, you can choose to let the website pick for you. Check it out:<br />
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Your students can have a lot of fun with this, instructors can tie social insight into lessons and it can be just plain fun! Click the image above to go to the website.</div>
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I must admit that I prefer to learn to use a few tools really well, rather than a little bit about a wide range. I also feel that good tech skills should be transferable - from one tool to a next.<br />
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Jennifer is an instructional designer whose blog reflects her passion and practical approach to elearning. This particular post describes down-to-earth tips for creating audio files that are a cut above.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-17424594728325487012015-10-07T08:30:00.000-05:002015-10-07T08:30:01.664-05:00Office 2016 ReleasedAlthough 2016 is still a few months away Office 2016 is here.<br />
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Here is a <a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-2016-Quick-Start-Guides-25f909da-3e76-443d-94f4-6cdf7dedc51e" target="_blank">Quick Start Guide</a>. Microsoft offers training <a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-2016-Training-8e50dbf2-8993-44d0-9e29-076b60fe93e6" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Don't forget as a Faculty member of Butler you are entitled to a copy of Office. We have disks that you can checkout for Windows & Mac. Currently, we do not have Office 2016 for Windows but hope to soon. Feel free to contact our office for more information.<br />
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Top 6 reasons to upgrade</h2>
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1. Built for teamwork</h3>
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In <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Word-d39f3cd8-0aa0-412f-9a35-1abba926d354" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="Word">Word</a>, <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/PowerPoint-a6308d9d-a0a8-443b-8e1c-0f4983f0afd1" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="PowerPoint">PowerPoint</a>, and <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-8d8a52bb-03c3-4933-ab6c-330aabf1e589" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="Excel">Excel</a>, there's easy sharing right from within the app. You can also see who has access to a given file and who is currently working in it.</div>
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<span class="ocpNote" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 1em; margin: 20px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px; text-transform: uppercase;"><include item="tip" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TIP </include></span> There's also real-time typing in Word. As you collaborate with others in a document, see where others are working and view their edits as they happen.</div>
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2. New Chart Types in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Visualize financial or hierarchical data, and highlight statistical properties of your data with new chart </span>types:<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Treemap-dfe86d28-a610-4ef5-9b30-362d5c624b68" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Treemap">Treemap</a>, <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Waterfall-8de1ece4-ff21-4d37-acd7-546f5527f185" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Waterfall">Waterfall</a>, <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Pareto-a1512496-6dba-4743-9ab1-df5012972856" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto">Pareto</a>, <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Histogram-85680173-064b-4024-b39d-80f17ff2f4e8" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Histogram">Histogram</a>, <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Box-and-Whisker-62f4219f-db4b-4754-aca8-4743f6190f0d" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Box and Whisker">Box and Whisker</a>, and <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sunburst-4a127977-62cd-4c11-b8c7-65b84a358e0c" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Sunburst">Sunburst</a>.</span></div>
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Excel includes a powerful new set of features called <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get--Transform-881c63c6-37c5-4ca2-b616-59e18d75b4de" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" title="Get & Transform">Get & Transform</a>, which provides fast, easy data gathering and shaping capabilities. Get & Transform enables you to connect, combine, and refine data sources to meet your analysis needs.</div>
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4. Modern Attachments in Outlook</h3>
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<a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Attach-a-document-from-your-recent-items-bdfafef5-792a-42b1-9a7b-84512d7de7fc" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="Attach a document from your recent items">Attach a document from your recent items</a> and share them from OneDrive or SharePoint with email recipients. Also configure sharing permissions so that all the recipients have access to the attached file without having to leave the app.</div>
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5. Smart Lookup in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook</h3>
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Fact-check or explore terms in your documents with Bing-powered <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Smart-Lookup-debf2083-5ac0-4739-8667-ae2467bec044" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="Smart Lookup">Smart Lookup</a>. Simply highlight terms in your document and use this feature to bring in search results from the web right into your reading or authoring environment.</div>
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6. Tell Me in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio, and Access</h3>
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Simply type what you want to do in the app using your own words, and then <a class="ocpArticleLink" href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Tell-Me-f20d2198-17b8-4b09-a3e5-007a337f1e4e" ms.cmpgrp="content" ms.pgarea="Body" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #056297; text-decoration: none;" title="Tell Me">Tell Me</a> will guide through the process as well as offer additional resources.</div>
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However, if you simply want to add some feedback to a discussion forum or a short announcement, you may not want to go to all the trouble of uploading it to your media site. Also, if accuracy is an issue, you can create your own closed caption video/audio file directly in CANVAS using the media tool in the Rich Content Editor. It's a bit of work, but easy enough to add subtitles for short clips that you don't want to upload to YouTube or Vimeo.<br />
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Check out the Canvas Help Guide <a href="https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-1882" target="_blank">How do I create captions for new or uploaded videos in Canvas?</a><br />
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<a href="http://instructionaldesignindustry.com/how-to-design-analogies-for-elearning/">http://instructionaldesignindustry.com/how-to-design-analogies-for-elearning/</a><br />
Much of it is familiar but reframing ideas in new contexts or hearing old songs sung with new voices <i>(an analogy, get it?)</i> can be refreshing.<br />
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Well, with ClipX, you can copy and retain 1,024 items instead of just one! Yes, you can actually copy the different sections of your syllabus and then when you have copied it all, you can navigate to your SALSA template and select each piece of information to paste in. There are other free downloads that can do the same, but I found this one was very easy to use, and I like easy!!<br />
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Take a look at the example below. I have copied several items and when I use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+V, the clipboard window appears with all my items I've pasted, with the most recent on top. Then, I just click on the item I want pasted in and that's it!<br />
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New tools within Google Docs helps students research and type. Students can search Google within Docs. Users can also utilize voice recognization instead of typing. Hopefully you find these tools useful, as I will be showing them to my daughter as she uses Google Docs extensively for her school work.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal">Relevant context and
applicability is the best way to spur student engagement.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Instructor presence is
helpful (sometimes necessary), but a "light touch" rather than
heavy interaction actually helps encourage dialogue.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Clearly defined expectations
(typically either in the discussion prompt or the syllabus) about both
what's required of students and what to expect from the instructor is
helpful.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Discussions don't necessarily
have to be <i>graded</i>, but a clear understanding of their value and
contribution to the course (and to the grade if relevant) is
essential. Too meticulous of grading or rubric can discourage
anything more than minimal participation.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Rubrics and stated guidelines
for amount and quantity of participation can be helpful, but there's a
risk of superficiality (posting for the grade, rather than the natural
learning value) which can be detrimental to good discussion.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Having designated student
moderators can give them ownership and encourage quality discussion.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">For larger classes, groups
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The best takeaway from SIDLIT 2015 (and there was some <b>cool </b>stuff) was this laid-back presentation by Jonathan Bacon. This slideshare can be downloaded and kept at hand for easy reference. Some of this I already knew but he had all of us oohing and aahing at some point.<br />
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<li>Using camera from lock screen</li>
<li>Identifying owner of a lost phone</li>
<li>Taking hands-free selfies</li>
<li>(More) typing shortcuts</li>
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One that he did not include was the Medical ID. <a href="http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/iphone-medical-id/" target="_blank">This article</a> reviews how, why and why not to use this feature of your iPhone<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688788144750011794.post-39248280317385364922015-08-26T08:00:00.000-05:002015-08-26T08:00:06.354-05:00Windows 10Windows 10 has been out for a few weeks. I have had a limited amount of time to enjoy Windows new Operating System. My initial testing has been very positive so far. I've recently freely upgraded my Windows 7 computers to Windows 10. This process took several hours but was worth it.<br />
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I have been testing the new Microsoft Edge browser. It seems slow compared to Google Chrome but I have not done many side by side comparisons yet. I'm still partial to Google Chrome browser.<br />
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<li>Here is some information on the FREE Windows 10 upgrade. </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade</a></li>
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<li>For a list of the best tips and tricks visit PC World.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2875600/windows/windows-10-the-best-tips-tricks-and-tweaks.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/2875600/windows/windows-10-the-best-tips-tricks-and-tweaks.html</a></li>
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<li>Upgrading from Windows 7 or 8? You'll love Windows 10</li>
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<li><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/22/technology/windows-10-review/index.html">http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/22/technology/windows-10-review/index.html</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gmail has enabled an option for users to get sent emails back (at least for an amount of time). Your Gmail account can be set to send your email up to 30 seconds after clicking <i>Send</i>...giving you time to cancel the send and revamp your message with that new thought.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;"><b>Shew!! Glad this is finally out there ;)</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Here Are 6 Video Project Ideas For You</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Creating videos can be a great way for students to both engage with the material and express their creativity. Students may also get excited about "storytelling" and sharing their work. Choosing the right type of project for a given assignment can be a bit tricky at first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>So, <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/05/six-styles-of-classroom-video-projects.html#.Vcy9mPlVhHw" target="_blank">click here for an outline and suggested sites for tools, etc</a>. and choose your adventure for lights, camera, action! :)</i></span></div>
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