Domain knowledge, critical thinking, and presentation and participation: these are elements that make up information fluency. The terms for this model have been chosen carefully - it’s information fluency, not digital fluency. Many parts of the information fluency model are analog, or comprised of characteristics for which the digital/analog terminology isn’t germane. It is fluency, not literacy.
With this tip, the UAF CTL Instructional Design Team celebrates one year of weekly advice on teaching and educational technology. During that year, the UAF Center for Distance Education moved to a new home and became UAF CTL, the Design Team grew by 30%, and the depth and breadth of the courses and projects the team works on increased by an even greater amount.
The end of semester is a good time for you to reflect upon your course and your delivery of the course. Taking time to consider successful and unsuccessful moments in the course can give you inspiration for making changes.
Student reflection is an important part of academic success. Asking students to take the time to review the process they are going through to learn can help them make adjustments in that process.
Provide your students an avenue to communicate with you on how they are learning or what is working in your course. Use a Google form, a quick poll from Poll Everywhere, or a JotForm survey, etc.
One way to ensure good instructor presence in an online course and present your lecture is by incorporating short lecture videos into your online course materials.
Lesson learning objectives are measurable statements of student performance that outline what you want students to know and understand after they complete a learning module.
Wikis are great for group work with your students. Wikis are web sites or web pages that multiple authors can edit without needing to know HTML code. Wikis and wiki-like applications provide a readily available, relatively easy-to-use, low-bandwidth platform for collaborative writing and editing.
Your PLE is constructed of the applications, tools, resources, services and methods that you use to help you with the everyday tasks of Collecting, Connecting, Reflecting, and Sharing information.
Content material that resides on one website but appears on another is embedded. Embedded material might also have a reduced or specific set of interface controls when appearing on another site.
A semester-based Communications class may help you improve your public speaking. If you have a pressing need or cannot commit to a full class, look to the Toastmaster clubs in your area.
