12.04.2009
11.25.2009
10.15.2009
Six Steps to Reputation Management for Educators By Jim Perry
Whether you access the Internet or not, information exists about you on the web. As educators,and therefore public personalities, someone is talking about you. Instead of standing by passively, Take Action!
10.09.2009
Blended Thinking, the definition and how it makes sense for our students
Anita Schmidt spoke about how Blended can combine the best of Face to face classes and the powerful arena of online coursework. Thanks Anita.
Here is her powerpoint.
Here is her powerpoint.
Blended Learning Chat N Chew 10 8 09
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10.02.2009
9.22.2009
9.06.2009
Using audio clips for your class, teaching to learn...
http://smarthistory.org/ is a wonderful site that will give you lots of ideas about using different tools to reach students about a given subject area. This site is all about Art History.
http://smarthistory.org/blog/ Of course the best way to learn is to teach, so another interesting use of audio in the classroom is having students create their own podcasts. The Education Department of the American Art Museum has a very popular student podcast program, in which high school students record their reflections on selected artworks in the collection. Through the process of creating a script about an artwork and listening to their own words, the students’ writing skills improve immeasurably, in addition to their visual arts literacy.
click on the blog post to learn more http://smarthistory.org/blog/
http://smarthistory.org/blog/ Of course the best way to learn is to teach, so another interesting use of audio in the classroom is having students create their own podcasts. The Education Department of the American Art Museum has a very popular student podcast program, in which high school students record their reflections on selected artworks in the collection. Through the process of creating a script about an artwork and listening to their own words, the students’ writing skills improve immeasurably, in addition to their visual arts literacy.
click on the blog post to learn more http://smarthistory.org/blog/
8.24.2009
Student Motivation through GROUP work
William Sheldon shared with us how group work motivates his students. The book he referenced is : Team Based Learning. Check out the website for more info: http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/?page_id=559
We will have a Chat and Chew devoted to this subject this Fall.
Here is his powerpoint
7.27.2009
Hybrid / Online approach to Chemistry
Our own Dr. Bob Cassidy’s innovative hybrid organic chemistry course was featured on the front page of the Daily Freeman (Thursday, July 16).
Read all about it at http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/07/16/news/doc4a5e901cd9601314950880.txt.
Read all about it at http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/07/16/news/doc4a5e901cd9601314950880.txt.
5.31.2009
Welcome to ANGELBootcamp support
Basics
Here is the link to the ANGEL "How-to" Tutorials
http://le.suny.edu/sln/documentation/tutorials/angel/7_3/7.3_welcome.shtml
There are also great tutorials and how-to's made by SUNY MIDs, click here to view.
The (SUNY Learning Network) SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents is a faculty training course, full of helpful tutorials on how-to structure, add functionality and enhance your online course
The course contains technical tutorials as well as suggestions for things like rubrics and grading. It is recommended that folks give this a look. It may contain answers to your questions, or at least show you more detail how-to on a particular topic.
Gradebook!
Follow along the Gradebook step by step set-up guides here at the SLN Training Site.
Go to 5. Teaching and Managing Your Online Course
Click on the Gradebook folder
Vanilla to Sundae !
I like the folder : 7. Instructional Design Institute for Returning Faculty
click on the section: Adding Dynamic Content:
Embedding Audio, Video, RSS, Animations, iFrames
Automates !
Send your students reminder emails
Here is where to find refresher info
Click on SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents
and look for Folder 7. Instructional Design Institute for Returning Faculty
and a folder called Automates.
Here is the link to the ANGEL "How-to" Tutorials
http://le.suny.edu/sln/documentation/tutorials/angel/7_3/7.3_welcome.shtml
There are also great tutorials and how-to's made by SUNY MIDs, click here to view.
The (SUNY Learning Network) SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents is a faculty training course, full of helpful tutorials on how-to structure, add functionality and enhance your online course
The course contains technical tutorials as well as suggestions for things like rubrics and grading. It is recommended that folks give this a look. It may contain answers to your questions, or at least show you more detail how-to on a particular topic.
Gradebook!
Follow along the Gradebook step by step set-up guides here at the SLN Training Site.
Go to 5. Teaching and Managing Your Online Course
Click on the Gradebook folder
Vanilla to Sundae !
I like the folder : 7. Instructional Design Institute for Returning Faculty
click on the section: Adding Dynamic Content:
Embedding Audio, Video, RSS, Animations, iFrames
Automates !
Send your students reminder emails
Here is where to find refresher info
Click on SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents
and look for Folder 7. Instructional Design Institute for Returning Faculty
and a folder called Automates.
4.15.2009
Social Networking for Education
Massive set of links for Social Networking sites in Ed: http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/
More info and links on the subject: http://thinkingmachine.pbwiki.com/Think-Social-Networking-for-Education
http://elgg.org/ is a social networking site built specifically for educational use. More info in the about section: http://elgg.org/about.php
More info and links on the subject: http://thinkingmachine.pbwiki.com/Think-Social-Networking-for-Education
http://elgg.org/ is a social networking site built specifically for educational use. More info in the about section: http://elgg.org/about.php
Teaching Online 101 - Pedagogy and Excellent Practices
Larry Ragan from Penn State's World Campus, spoke at the SUNY Learning Network's SOLSummit 2009 in Syracuse a couple months back, and provided some excellent research and materials about faculty support for teaching online. He has also produced a series of short video series of interviews with online learning professionals called "Competencies for Online Teaching Success" (COTS) and "Strategies for Managing the Online Workload" (SMOW) - both of which are on YouTube.Larry has also developed a Creative Commons licensed orientation to excellent practices in online education:
Ragan, L. (2007, August 28). Best Practices in Online Teaching. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/col10453/1.2/
The Creative Commons license allows for reuse, distribution, remixing, etc. as long as you include attribution to the original material. So, I have taken his work and adapted it into a Moodle course as well as built a tiny bit onto it. For those who have a Moodle server and would like to load the course up and re-use it, it can be found inthe attachments at this link (https://confluence.delhi.edu/x/OQCsC)
Ragan, L. (2007, August 28). Best Practices in Online Teaching. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/col10453/1.2/
The Creative Commons license allows for reuse, distribution, remixing, etc. as long as you include attribution to the original material. So, I have taken his work and adapted it into a Moodle course as well as built a tiny bit onto it. For those who have a Moodle server and would like to load the course up and re-use it, it can be found inthe attachments at this link (https://confluence.delhi.edu/x/OQCsC)
3.23.2009
Archiving Angel Content
Here is a tutorial in PDF format from SUNYIT on archiving content and data from your Angel Course.
Click the above image aboce to Download.
Web 2.0
Just a cool video on YouTube about Web 2.0.
For those of you who do not know, Web 2.0 is feel free to read this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0.
For those of you who do not know, Web 2.0 is feel free to read this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0.
Angel 7.3 Faculty Orientation
Here is a link to the ANGEL 7.3 "How-to" Tutorials
http://le.suny.edu/sln/documentation/tutorials/angel/7_3/7.3_welcome.shtml
Here is the SUNY Learning Network faculty training course named SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents. This course will help facilitate the learning process for Faculty learning how to use Angel LMS.
The course contains technical tutorials as well as suggestions for things like rubrics and grading. It is recommended that everyone atleast give this a look. It may contain answers to your questions, or atleast show you more detail on a particular topic.
http://le.suny.edu/sln/documentation/tutorials/angel/7_3/7.3_welcome.shtml
Here is the SUNY Learning Network faculty training course named SLN101: Training Materials and Sample Documents. This course will help facilitate the learning process for Faculty learning how to use Angel LMS.
The course contains technical tutorials as well as suggestions for things like rubrics and grading. It is recommended that everyone atleast give this a look. It may contain answers to your questions, or atleast show you more detail on a particular topic.
2.02.2009
Technical Problems & Solutions
Browser Issues: If items overly enlarged or too small, discussion boards look weird, Please update your browser to the latest version or ask OIT to do it for you.
ANGEL seems to like:
Internet Explorer 7.0
Firefox 2 NOT 3
Printing for Windows OS:
Printing in ANGEL 7.3 involves an extra step.
In order to print in ANGEL 7.3 you will need to highlight the text you want to print.
Then click File, Print.
Choose Selection then click OK.
Printing for Mac OS X:
Click File, Print
Click the Preview button
Click File, Grab, Selection
Use the tool to select the area you wish to print Click File, Print again.
The print window should only show an image of your
selection, the image should not be of the entire page.
Print
OR
CTRL+Click in the text you wish to print.
Mouse Over the This Frame option, this will open another menu.
Click Print Frame
Click OK
Un-authorized User and Access Denied Errors
Internet Explorer
FireFox
Click the below icon to open the File Format you want.
Browser Issues: If items overly enlarged or too small, discussion boards look weird, Please update your browser to the latest version or ask OIT to do it for you.
ANGEL seems to like:
Internet Explorer 7.0
Firefox 2 NOT 3
Printing for Windows OS:
Printing in ANGEL 7.3 involves an extra step.
In order to print in ANGEL 7.3 you will need to highlight the text you want to print.
Then click File, Print.
Choose Selection then click OK.
Printing for Mac OS X:
Click File, Print
Click the Preview button
Click File, Grab, Selection
Use the tool to select the area you wish to print Click File, Print again.
The print window should only show an image of your
selection, the image should not be of the entire page.
OR
CTRL+Click in the text you wish to print.
Mouse Over the This Frame option, this will open another menu.
Click Print Frame
Click OK
Un-authorized User and Access Denied Errors
If you are seeing the Un-authorized User and/or Access Denied Errors within Angel then you may want to try logging out and then back in. If you still are frequently seeing these errors then please try clearing your cache, the following tutorials can help you achieve this goal:
Internet Explorer
FireFox
Click the below icon to open the File Format you want.
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