May 24, 2007

Making Your Own Educational Materials

By Bruce L. Mann, Ph.D. is from the Faculty of Education, Memorial University, St. John’s,

The better alternative to borrowing educational materials from the Internet that may be well be violating copyright law, the moral rights of the author, and rules of the university, would be to make your own materials. It’ll be good for you and good for them – good for you because it’ll be a testament to your hard work and determination to support your students’ efforts, even at home. It’ll be good for your students as a constant resource for them to learn from at home. Besides you know your students better that any Internet site. Only you can provide your students with real help and guidance. Don’t rely on the Internet to do your job for you. Most educational websites are either too advanced or too game-like anyway for your students and as such won’t serve them well enough to meet your standards.

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Filed under: Home Schooling,Pedagogy,Small Private Practices

May 22, 2007

Technotes – Learning and Research – Ottobib

Ottobib: Ottobib is a simple bibliography tool that allows users to enter multiple ISBN numbers for books at a time and retrieve the bibliographies in MLA, APA, AMA, or Chicago/Turabian format.

Journal Reference: Brian Benzinger, Solution Watch, Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1. 
Retrieved on 3/30/07
http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/

Filed under: Productivity,Research,TechNotes

May 19, 2007

Development Principles for Online Courses: A Baker's Dozen

By Rory McGreal, Athabasca University

Course development on the Web is becoming more sophisticated as instructors and course specialists become more familiar with the environment. At present, most development principles for online courses have been derived from what seems to work best in the traditional face-to-face context. However, the Web opens up entirely new possibilities for learning (as well as unique limitations). What follows is a baker’s dozen of development principles that attempt to build on the knowledge-base of distance education and traditional learning, and to adapt both to the online environment and the strengths and weaknesses of software applications. We hope course developers find these principles useful when initiating and supporting online projects.

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Filed under: Home Schooling,Small Private Practices

May 17, 2007

Leading the Band:The Role of the Instructor in Online Learning for Educators

by Barbara P. Heuer and Kathleen P. King
Fordham University

Abstract

Drawing from the online experiences of teachers across the United States who participated in online professional development courses, this article focuses on what educators/participants consider to be the roles and responsibilities of the online instructor. They see the online instructor as facilitator, model, planner, coach, and communicator. They describe how these roles are uniquely tuned in the online environment.

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Filed under: Leadership,Pedagogy,Tutoring Practices

May 10, 2007

Do you know what your students are learning? (And do you care?)

By Diana Kelly

Introduction

In higher education we sometimes pause at the end of a lecture and ask “Any questions?” or “Is everything clear?” Usually there are no responses, and as students leave we are satisfied that we did allow students the opportunity to ask questions. As there were no questions, they must have understood, or so we think. However, how do we really know what students are actually learning when they are in the process of learning something new for the first time? As lecturers we are not mind readers. We need to check in with our students to find out what they are learning and what they don’t understand fully.


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Filed under: Community,High School,Home Schooling,Pedagogy,Small Private Practices,Tutoring Practices

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