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Conference Schedule - EducationOnAir
Conference recordings from Education on Air. TONS of awesome sessions!
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How Educators Are Using Learnist | MindShift
Provides an overview to how educators are using Learnist to share digital content with students.
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17 Free YouTube Tools Every Teacher should Know about
Provides a listing of YouTube tools that can be used within an educational setting.
Articles Read This Week (weekly)
Articles Read This Week (weekly)
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Academic Librarians As Campus Hubs
Very interesting article brainstorming ways to continue making connections with other higher Ed depertments.
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Understanding Web 2.0 Embed Codes | Mark Brumley
This article includes an amazing video where I learned so many new things! For instance:
* I didn't know that within a YouTube embed code, the YouTube link can be copied/pasted into a browser and it will open in full screen mode!
* The same thing can be done with a slideshare presentation by locating the src code link within the embed code.
* Prezi? Yep same thing...but a little more complicated. Locate the src code. You'll have to do a little bit of adding... copy to the .swf within the src area. Type a question mark (?) in order to ask what file should be loaded, and then copy the information in between quotation marks from the flashvars section (prezi_id...). Add this copied information to the front half of the URL and you're set to load the link full screen! -
Library Instruction: No More Lecturing, No More ‘Death by PowerPoint’ « Mr. Library Dude
Great ideas for first-year research instruction
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I'm a huge supporter of Google Docs for group project collaboration. I never would have guessed that it would be used for cheating purposes, but it makes sense.
- Mr. Smith figured out that the actual number of possible questions in the test bank was pretty small. If he and his friends got together to take the test jointly, they could paste the questions they saw into the shared Google Doc, along with the right or wrong answers. The schemers would go through the test quickly, one at a time, logging their work as they went. The first student often did poorly, since he had never seen the material before, though he would search an online version of the textbook on Google Books for relevant keywords to make informed guesses. The next student did significantly better, thanks to the cheat sheet, and subsequent test-takers upped their scores even further. They took turns going first. Students in the course were allowed to take each test twice, with the two results averaged into a final score.
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Articles Read This Week (weekly)
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Mad research skillz: Workshop on developing undergraduate research « lyndamk
Geared towards English and COM instructors, this article focused on paraphrasing activities that will help students synthesize information as they read it (hopefully).
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Scholrly is a new search engine that searches research connections of sources and people. It's currently in beta with sign-up access only.
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The Flipped Class: Students Talk - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.
I have done quite a bit of research on the flipped classroom due to being one of 2 people to pilot this method of instruction with my institution. The comments found within this article are indicative of the comments I have received from my own students.
Flipped Classrooms = Blended Learning = Participatory Learning = FUN!
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