Feb 05 2012
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Is that me? Raising undergraduate students awareness of their digit…
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Six Models of Course Redesign #elearning
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Social Networked Learning in complex information environments
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Infographic: Get More Out Of Google
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Commonwealth of Learning – Instructional Design Tool
“This Instructional Design Tool (IDT) was developed as a rigorous, yet simple tool to support the development of quality courses and learning materials. Through this tool the Commonwealth of Learning is encouraging institutions to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency and appeal of the learning experience. “
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The open source mathematics textbooks
“Curriculum aligned textbooks with embedded videos, simulations, powerpoint presentations and more. “
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Seven Places to Find Free eBooks
Every year schools around the world spend thousands of dollars on textbooks that are often outdated by the end of their first year in the classroom. Ebooks, many of them free, can represent huge savings for schools over purchasing textbooks. Here are seven places that you can find free ebooks.
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The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture
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Write This Down: Note-Taking Strategies for Academic Success
”I’ve provided a primer on note-taking strategies, many of which I personally used during my academic career. A lot of this is fairly basic stuff–there are no “secrets” to note-taking success. But hopefully a few of these tips will help you start taking notes more effectively.”
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“We’ve added a lot of new content, including chapters focused on iPad apps, using Facebook in Education, Free Productivity Resources, and more. We’ve also added quite a few new articles to various chapters throughout the booklet, and removed some older material. We combed over all the links to make sure all the resources are still available, and made changes where needed.”
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Free Online Conference on WiZiQ: CO12 – Feb 3-5, 2012
The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction, learning, and business. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are many challenges that educators, administrators, students, businesses, and community members face.
The theme of the conference is, connecting online for instruction and learning that goes beyond the classroom. Presenters from around the globe will discuss the following topics:Connecting online to improve instruction and learning: Online learning and pedagogical/instructional experiences
Experiences with the use of technology in face-to-face and online classes. What worked and what didn’t work for you?
How do you use technology to promote your online workshops, consultation, business, and communities?
Research conducted on e-learning
Books written on e-learning
21st Century learning and teaching
Challenges of the 21st Century learning/teaching environment
Leading a business with e-learning technology -
The Social Media Pro Book 2011.2012< --great marketing resource
The Social Media ProBook is a 42-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of social marketers from brands and agencies, analysts, and social support professionals across both business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries.
This advanced resource was written for professionals with some working knowledge of social marketing. Specifically, it will answer the following questions (and more):How to optimize your Facebook newsfeed to be seen by as many fans as possible
How to scale your social media program globally
How to measure something other than “Likes”
How to create infographics that wow the Web and drive crazy traffic
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Open content licensing (free stuff!) is changing the world. It’s making art, music, information, and education more accessible than it has ever been in the history of humankind. We’ve put together a collection of articles designed to help you become a part of this amazing movement, either as a creator, or just a more empowered consumer.
This is a guide for people new to open content, or people who want to expand what they already know about this incredible movement. Here you’ll learn what open content is, how to license your own work for sharing around the world, and how to find the best and most beautiful open content for your websites, slideshows, articles, and whatever other amazing projects you have coming up!
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The future success of e-learning depends on appropriate selection of tools and services. This symposium will propose that the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) as an institutional tool is dead, no more, defunct, expired.
The first panel member, Steve Wheeler, will argue that many VLEs are not fit for purpose, and masquerade as solutions for the management of online learning. Some are little more than glorified e-mail systems. They will argue that VLEs provide a negative experience for learners.
The second member of the panel, Graham Attwell, believes that the VLE is dead and that the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the solution to the needs of diverse learners. PLEs provide opportunities for learners, offering users the ability to develop their own spaces in which to reflect on their learning.
The third panel member, James Clay, however, believes that the VLE is not yet dead as a concept, but can be the starting point of a journey for many learners. Creating an online environment involving multiple tools that provides for an enhanced experience for learners can involve a VLE as a hub or centre.
The fourth panel member, Nick Sharratt, argues for the concept of the institutional VLE as essentially sound. VLEs provide a stable, reliable, self-contained and safe environment in which all teaching and learning activities can be conducted. It provides the best environment for the variety of learners within institutions.
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For Busy Educators, It’s Worth the Time to Find the Treasure in Twitter
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The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena. Browse the OSP simulations or learn more about our tools and curriculum pieces below.
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“The current system of measuring scholarly influence doesn’t reflect the way many researchers work in an environment driven more and more by the social Web. Research that used to take months or years to reach readers can now find them almost instantly via blogs and Twitter.”
