Bus/CS course – TEI2007

Resources

Instruction

• Becta Research Report
  http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_02&rid=14007
  Helen Barrett, E-Portfolios for Learning
  Helen Barrett links to and discusses the Becta report,
  Impact study of e-portfolios on learning , and in
  particular, displays an interesting graphic of “the three
  distinct components of an e-portfolio system: the digital
  archive (repository of evidence), tools to support
  different processes, and different presentation portfolios
  developed for different purposes and audiences.”
  http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/2007/07/becta-research-report.html

• The @ONE Scholars Program is a fellowship for California Community College (CCC) faculty to conduct research on the impact of instructional technology on student learning in their own classrooms. Faculty members study the characteristics of their students, their own changes in pedagogical practices using technology, and changes in student learning in technology-enhanced learning environments.
  http://www.cccone.org/scholars/index.htm

• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
  http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm

• Instructional Immediacy and the Seven Principles: Strategies for Facilitating Online Courses
  http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall63/hutchins63.html
  Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume VI, NumberIII, Fall2003
  State University of West Georgia, Distance Education Center

• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever
  http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

• CREST+ Model: Writing Effective Online Discussion Questions
  a model for writing effective online discussion questions, covers the cognitive nature of the question, the reading basis, any experiential possibility, style and type of question, and finally ways to structure a good question. This model encourages students to participate in online forum discussions, provides a template for online faculty to use in creating effective discussion questions, and promotes a higher level processing of the material.
  http://jolt.merlot.org/vol3no2/akin.htm

• 2003 Scoring Rubric – View the Exemplary Course rubric (PDF)
  http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=13423678

• Bloom’s Taxonomy
  http://ets.fhda.edu/hybrid/goals/goals_bloomtax.html

• Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web
  http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html

  “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” – from the Project Gutenberg EBook of Areopagitica, by John Milton
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608.txt

• multiliteracies and transliteracy
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteracy

• BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors
  The VOCAL approach summarizes the key characteristics that a master instructor utilizes to be effective in an online environment. VOCAL is an acronym for Visible, Organized, Compassionate, Analytical and Leader-by-example.
  http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/viewarticle.cfm?volID=4&IssueID=15&ArticleID=73

• Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resources
  http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/teachings.html

end instruction

Technology

• Top 10 Cool Tools
  http://blog.techsoup.org/node/40

• Top 100 Favorite Tools
  http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

• Blogging: The Solution to (most) of Your Classroom Needs
  http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=183

• Podomatic
  http://podomatic.com – enables anyone to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts, directly into their computer, iPod, mp3 player or even TiVo. It encodes the podcast and syndicates it to all podcast directories.

• http://del.icio.us/tag/P2P-EFL-ESL-X

• TeacherTube
  http://www.teachertube.com/

• Podcasting
  Useful article describing and outlining case studies in the use of podcasting in learning: “the creation and distribution of lecture archives for review, the delivery of supplemental educational materials and content, and assignments requiring students to produce and submit their own podcasts.” PDF.
  http://connect.educause.edu/files/CMU_Podcasting_Jun07.pdf

• Voicethreads
  A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told and collected in one place.
  http://voicethread.com
  http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/05/voicethreads/ – educator description
  http://voicethread.com/maker.php?b=2956 – example from the blog entry

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Moodle

• Sloodle is Open Source. We develop learning tools and structures for educators exploring 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE). Our first objective is to connect Second Life with Moodle.
  http://www.sloodle.com/
  http://www.sloodle.com/whitepaper.pdf
• Moodle Teacher’s Manual – online book format
  http://moodle.tokem.fi/mod/book/view.php?id=5116&chapterid=92
• Moodle Teacher documentation
  http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation
• Moodle themes – downloadable http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&page=0
  themes documentation http://docs.moodle.org/en/Themes

end moodle

To enhance instruction with technology or not. That really shouldn’t be a question. However, every now and then someone publishes an article that gets everyone fired up.

* The Nay Sayer
Pimp My Course
Rob Jenkins, Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/07/2007071101c/careers.html

Everyone Else
with comments by Stephen Downes
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=40832

* Alan Levine sums up this article – yet another anti-technology screed in the Chronicle – with one word: Loser
http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/12/chronicle-2/.

* More snark
http://newkidonthehallway.typepad.com/new_kid_on_the_hallway/2007/07/oh-look-more-sn.html, is now New Kid on the Hallway describes it, correctly. “What’s particularly disturbing about this column is that much of his dismissal of educational technology seems to be inspired by a deep contempt for his students.” Quite so.

* The blog Twice
http://twicetenured.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-it-adding-technology-worth-it.html says the article “was kind of funny.”

* Geeky Mom
http://geekymom.blogspot.com/2007/07/old-guard.html asks, “Why is it that we never see articles in the Chronicle about successful uses of technology in the classroom?”

* Aacademic Hack
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=191 writes, “If I had time I would point out everything that is wrong with the Chronicle piece.”

* Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/the_chronicle_does_it_again.php writes, “It seems to be nothing but a long whine about modern teaching technologies – it’s rather pathetic, actually, but the Chronicle seems to have a fondness for running occasional articles from defensive, confused Luddites.”

* On the Verge
http://palabreria.bloghole.org/index.php?p=132 calls the author’s tone “clearly self-deprecating and tongue-in-cheek.” I call it the characteristically lazy and sloppy journalism that serves as the best evidence we could ask for regarding the increasing irrelevance of traditional media.