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Bodington.org. Instructional Technology & Online Education Software for eLearning. Time management strategies for online teaching in a mixed-mode approach. Time Saving Strategies and Tips for Instructors Using Online Discussion Forums (A practical guide under co-construction, April 2000) Introduction Students and instructors being able to write messages at any time of day or night when it's convenient appears to be one of the great benefits of going online for learning and teaching : I have found that the online mode takes just as much time as the face to face mode.

Time management strategies for online teaching in a mixed-mode approach

What it does allow though is for me to carry out my teaching activities, and for students to carry out their learning activities when it is most convenient. When a campus-based classroom becomes network-enabled, discussion forums extend and strengthen the social interaction already occuring in that classroom. Such benefits, however, are accompanied by time requirements. Management of online activities has become an ever increasing task and the more tools we have it seems the more work we need to do as instructors. Getting started I say to students to first introduce themselves. Reinventing class discussion online. Web discussions are gaining popularity in academe as a way to spur intellectual exchange among students outside of regular class time.

Reinventing class discussion online

In fact, a recent survey by the Campus Computing Project finds at least a quarter of college courses have their own Web pages, many of them with discussion areas. But, as convenient as it is to log on any time and discuss the latest course reading with classmates, students often find that the online world doesn't prompt the same kind of bonding, camaraderie or even conflict that face-to-face discussions do. Students respond less directly to one another on the Web because they can't see each other. Often they throw out random, isolated thoughts, and the discussion founders. Retooling for Creative Curriculum. Retooling for Creative Curriculum - Using Low Threshold Activities to Produce Best Practice Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Abstract: Will Rogers once said "When you are through changing, you are through.

Retooling for Creative Curriculum

" Production of educational multimedia is changing and faculty and support staff are having to change with it. This paper describes potential benefits for using multimedia and hypermedia, describes barriers that limited their use in the past, and briefly outlines current issues. The paper argues that there is an important future for educational multimedia, and new methods and software programs are available that will change how it's produced. In particular, the philosophy and strategy of Low Treshold Activities (LTAs) provides an important foundation for the retooling of creative curriculum.

Multimedia, as a concept, has reached popular acceptance. Learning Theories of Instructional Design. Instructional Design Models. T.H.E. Journal Online: Technological Horizons in Education. Blackboard Quiz Generator: A Service of Wytheville Community College. Blackboard Quiz Generator A simpler, faster way to create Blackboard quizzes and tests!

Blackboard Quiz Generator: A Service of Wytheville Community College

Example I want to create a multiple-choice series of questions. I type: 1. Etc. After you submit the form, you get a file generated for you that will import into Blackboard using the Pool Manager (available with Blackboard v4 and v5, but not at Blackboard.com). Try it out and create a quiz If you use this service a lot and you use the "Select Specific Questions from Pool" feature in Blackboard, you may find a couple of Assessment Helper Scripts I've written very helpful. David Carter-Tod Wytheville Community College. Create a New User. Welcome to TEAMS Educational Resources. Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator.

Pagerank Explained Correctly with Examples. Copyright Ian Rogers, 2002 onwards NB. this page was originally hosted on www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/ until I shut that company and website down.

Pagerank Explained Correctly with Examples

And then on www.ianrogers.net/google-page-rank/ until I lost that domain to a domain grabber. So much for permanency on the Internet Introduction Page Rank is a topic much discussed by Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts. At the heart of PageRank is a mathematical formula that seems scary to look at but is actually fairly simple to understand. Clearly explain how PageRank is calculated.Go through every example in Chris' paper, and add some more of my own, showing the correct PageRank for each diagram. Any good web designer should take the time to fully understand how PageRank really works – if you don't then your site's layout could be seriously hurting your Google listings! How is PageRank Used? PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. Definitions. OCW Home. Strayer University Online.

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