I spoke with friend and colleague, Owen Guthrie, about a course he recently took from Oxford. Being an Oxford course, perhaps it isn’t so strange that it cost £700. But, considering the fact that it […]
Having students sign up for individual appointments has become easier with the Create Appointment option in Google Calendar. Creating a group of available time slots can be very useful for your students, graduate assistants, staff, and colleagues.
The end of the semester is a good time to review how well your students did on your class assessments and if those assessments actually gave you evidence of student’s understanding. One type of assessment that you might include in your course is a test that students access through Blackboard.
No podcast this week; we had some icestorm activity last week and it really messed up everyone's schedules. So here is an article on space and the future and awesomeness instead. Hope you enjoy.
Thanks to the media deluge, you’ve probably heard of the precipitous rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
and maybe even peeked into a MOOCourse or two. If you haven’t–or hoped to just ignore them–you might want to
think again.
How you choose to use extra credit can enhance a student's learning opportunities. Whether you're for or against the use, a few simple rules will make it easier to deploy. Consider using optional quizzes over the reading material prior to the start of class to encourage students to be prepared for in-class discussion.
Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and promoting meaningful discussion in the classroom helps create a more dynamic and effective learning community. Get some ideas in this week's Teaching Tip.
Maintain order over your files by instilling file management best practices: give your files comprehensive titles, and save them in appropriate subfolders (not just lobbed into the pile on the desktop!).
Get an overview of your activity within the Blackboard world all in one spot by using the new Global Navigation feature in the update, Service Pack 11, for Blackboard 9.1. This efficient suite of tools will help you and your students get an overview of your activity within the Blackboard world —all in one spot.
The Understanding by Design model teaches us how to create our curriculum backward from big ideas to activities...but what about the benefits of teaching backward? Allowing students to explore larger concepts, while you fill in, here and there, with the details, helps to enliven the experience of the subject.
Pinterest is a free image-based curation site that allows users to create themed “boards' onto which they may “pin' relevant links, which appear as tiles. Board creators and viewers alike may comment on the pins. In this week's teaching tip find out how Pinterest relates to education.
The cliché, “A picture is worth a thousand words,' has taken on a new meaning in the online world of web 2.0 tools. Using an online service such as Thinglink.com, you can actually create an interactive image by adding text, video, music, and web links to increase the meaning of your— image.
