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Africa-full-report. Strategies for Online Teaching. Online teaching is increasingly common at many types of higher education institutions, ranging from hybrid courses that offer a combination of in-person and online instruction, to fully online experiences and distance learning.

The following resources provide guidelines for creating an online course, best practices for teaching online, and strategies for assessing the quality of online education. CRLT Occasional Paper #18: Online Teaching (Zhu, Dezure, & Payette, 2003) This paper explores key questions to consider when planning an online course and provides guidelines for effective instructional practices. Instructional Design (Illinois Online Network) An ever-changing collection of articles related to teaching online (including Tip of the Month), basic resources, and spotlight issues. Course Overview - Learning Creative Learning. Course Syllabus The Syllabus for Spring 2014 is a work in progress.

You can find the 2013 syllabus here. 1 - Creative Learning (18 March 2014) Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses - Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses. How to Conduct Scientific Research On the Internet (Without Getting Duped) 51 Education Podcasts For The 21st Century Teacher. Maybe you don’t have time to sit down and sift through the latest education blogs for ideas and inspiration.

If the thought of trying to carve out more hours in your day leaves you feeling overwhelmed, this list is for you. Podcasts are a great way to get information when you’re driving in your car, making dinner at home, or waiting at the DMV to renew your license. Podcasts don’t force you to find more time in your day; they give you the opportunity to capitalize on all the dead time that already exists in your day by simply downloading the .mp3 or syncing a podcast to your iTunes account on your smartphone. Even though podcasts have been around awhile, a lot of people still don’t utilize the hundreds of free podcasts available on the Internet.

Now is a great time to start. Below are 51 educational podcasts you should look consider. 51 Education Podcasts For The 21st Century Teacher. FLC-PPT-Plus - Multimodal Essay. Your second major writing project will be a multimodal (i.e., print, audio, and video) essay in the form of either a powerpoint (note the small "p") slideshow with audio, a video, a podcast, or some combination of them.

It is designed to allow you to display your knowledge and research in a multimedia format: you should use graphics, photos, embedded audio and video and whatever else you need to develop your position. The topic is currently TBA (check back later); it should be very narrow in scope, must wrestle with various positions and points of view, and must include cited sources (i.e., research). Use PowerPoint, Keynote, iMovie, Windows MovieMaker, Garageband, Jaycut.com, or any other software that will help you.Dates Due: Storyboard due TAB at 11:59 p.m.; Rough Draft due TBA at 11:59 p.m.; Final Draft due TBA, at 11:59 p.m.

Slideshow (powerpoint) Other Tools Specific Requirements: English 109S: Digital Writing (Spring 2011) Eng102branscomb - Multimodal Essay. Eng102summer2 - Multimodal Essay. Computers and Compostion Online. The New Work of Assessment - Home. Title Page. Top Ten Group Work Strategies. If I am continually vexed by any one question in education it is ‘how can we enhance student motivation?

Home—Survey of Multimodal Pedagogies in Writing Programs. Data from the CCCC-Sponsored "Survey of Multimodal Pedagogies in Writing Programs" This website accompanies an article appearing in the print version of Composition Studies entitled “Integrating Multimodality in Composition Curricula: Survey Methodology and Results from a CCCC Research Initiative Grant.”

In that article the author-researchers listed below provided methodologies and outcomes of a national survey conducted in 2005 to discover how instructors use multimodal composition practices in their writing classrooms and research. Reading Like A Historian. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry.

Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues.

They learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. How iBooks Author Stacks Up to the Competition [CHART] With the announcement of iBooks Author last week, the world of self-publishing seemed to open up a little wider, especially for authors looking for an easy way to format and distribute their own content.

At the same time, people raised concerns about the content restrictions of the iBooks Author tool. According to the contract in iBooks Author, books that writers charge for through the iBooks 2 store are subject to fees, which isn't new — iTunes does the same thing with apps in the App Store. But the contract also stipulates books created with the Author tool may only be sold in the iBooks 2 store, and nowhere else. While some writers may deem the Apple iBooks store an adequate revenue stream, others may not welcome the regulations. Still, self-publishing holds potential for many authors, especially now that 29% of U.S. adults own some kind of tablet or ereader. iBooks Author hands-on: making textbooks in the 21st century. Alright, I just fired up iBooks Author, which is a free download from the Mac App Store.

It installed quickly, and after selecting a template I was editing my first-textbook in moments. The single-window interface is just like any other modern iWorks app, and Apple isn't offering it for free for lack of features. Like Josh mentioned in the liveblog, the app is a mix of Keynote and Pages, with drag and drop layout tools and a sidebar of "slides" representing the table of contents. Of course, the app isn't exactly designed for your mom to publish a interactive textbook of her vacation: while some aspects are a breeze, there's no WYSIWYG to build 3D objects from scratch or code HTML5 elements, you'll have to do that externally. Also, the app didn't support many of the videos in various QuickTime-supported formats on my computer (though, oddly, it embedded a music video from the iTunes Music Store), and animated GIFs seem unsupported as well.

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