11.09.2012

When creating an online course...

Here is a sampling for a collection of video clips by professors who teach online. Folks have told me these short clips have been very helpful to think about when setting up or teaching an online course for the first time. You can click here to go to youtube and see the series.

Enjoy!

Here also is a great read by Dee Fink about creating online courses.

2.24.2012

Mini Grants are GREAT ! We get to do great projects!

Here is a link and the powerpoint for a project that allows the students to review a procedure and use flip cameras to film themselves doing the procedure. This allows the students to reflect on the procedure and make sure they are accurately doing the procedure to pass the test. The students find that being able to review their process, keeps them shooting until they do the procedure well enough to pass the test to do that particular task.

http://www.slideshare.net/SUNYUlsterInstructs/vet-tech-flipsmini-grant

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1.23.2012

As we scramble to prepare our students, what are the jobs that they need to be prepared for?

As the US economy slowly rebuilds and the smoke from four years of charred capital starts to dissipate, we can discern the shape of the next 20 years of job growth. What we see is an economy unlike any we’ve ever known.
The recovery needs to be revolutionary, because our most recent financial meltdown laid bare a fundamental change in the US economy. Since sometime in the 1970s—economists generally agree on the trend, if not the exact date—the US has been increasingly divided into two groups: those whose economic fortunes grow and those whose wages stay stagnant. This divide has many potential causes, including the rise in global trade, technological advances, the decline in unions, and slowing growth in education. But the full impact of these shifts was long masked, first by the stock market bubble and then by a massive credit and housing bubble, which flooded the economy with money we hadn’t really earned. For nearly 20 years we felt richer than we were.