01. Quotes. Wloliver. Chinalisa. Teacher Resources. PowerPoint. Types of Feedback and Their Purposes. Assessment Tools. Below are links to assessment tools and techniques along with specific geoscience examples and resources.
Carol Ormand's toolbox, complete with rock hammer. Photo courtesy of Carol Ormand. Concept Maps - A diagramming technique for assessing how well students see the "big picture". ConcepTests - Conceptual multiple-choice questions that are useful in large classes. Knowledge Survey - Students answer whether they could answer a survey of course content questions. Topics Of Particular Interest Large Class Assessment Learn more about assessment strategies that are particularly useful for large classes and see examples of how techniques were employed in geoscience classes.
Don't Know Which Tool to Use? Assessment and Active Learning Strategies for Introductory Geology Courses (Acrobat (PDF) 390kB Mar8 05), David McConnell, David Steer, Kathie Owens, 2003, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 51, n. 2, March, 2003, p. 205-216, is a good, concise, introduction to assessment techniques. Why you need a whole new mind. I know I’ve been hinting at my admiration for A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink, for the last month or so, but I’ve finally managed to write a proper post about it.
Because I think you should read this book. mr. t tries on a whole new mind It’s a book about how we’re leaving an era widely known as the Information Age, and entering a new one. Pink writes, “We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and society built on the inventive, empathetic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.” And this book is all about the skills we’ll need in this new age.
The premise here is that many of the jobs held in the Information Age are now carried out by computers, or outsourced to foreign labor. Storytelling 101. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. 12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript. Adobe Flash is an excellent technology that allows developers to add interactivity and smooth animations to web pages.
Its popularity is so immense that you’ll find many websites dedicated to helping developers interested in Flash. In this article, you’ll find 12 wonderful websites that’s worth a bookmark if you’re looking into sharpening your Flash development skills. For each entry, you’ll find three tutorials from the website so that you can see what’s in store for you. 1. kirupa.com kirupa.com is a site that features excellent Flash tutorials (as well as Silverlight, ASP.net, PHP, and Photoshop).
Tutorial examples: 2. gotoandlearn.com Some people learn best by visualization and following along with the instructor step-by-step in real-time. 3. gotoAndPlay() gotoAndPlay() is dedicated to providing resources for Flash game developers. 4. Adobe’s Flash Developer Center is a community for Flash developers. 5. 6. 7. Flash and Math has a great collection of tutorials on AS3. OCL CMST&220 Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides: the Assertion-Evidence Structure.
A small, but growing, revolution is occurring in the way that engineers and scientists design their presentation slides.
This revolution advocates alternatives (based on multimedia learning principles) that challenge PowerPoint's default structure of a topic-phrase headline supported by a bullet list of subtopics. Rethinking scientific presentations: the assertion-evidence approach. One such alternative is the assertion-evidence structure, in which a sentence headline states the main message of the slide.
That message assertion is then supported not by a bullet list, but by visual evidence: photos, drawings, diagrams, graphs, films, or equations. Talks by Penn State undergraduates that demonstrate three important traits of effective presentation slides. One assumption of the assertion-evidence structure is that slides are, in fact, an appropriate visual aid for the talk. Magazine Article OCL Public Speaking Speeches.
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