Blog I am grateful for… With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I am taking some time to reflect on just how very fortunate I am. Since becoming a connected educator in 2011, my learning world has expanded beyond my expectations and then some. I know that many of the successes our school is experiencing would not have been realized without this support. Here are a few people and groups that have recently made an impact on my professional and personal life. I am grateful for my All Things PLC (#atplc) Voxer group. read more Upcoming free webinars: Peek inside the Life of a Connected Learner Peek inside the Life of a Connected Learner Spend an hour chatting with us and find out about our unique brand of coached, team-based professional learning and how to learn like connected learners do – through action research, lesson plan studies, virtual classroom visits, and more. All the Connected Educator Month events you won’t want to miss October 8-14 It’s here!
10 Free Spell check and Grammar Checker Online Tools - Online Free Tools Spelling & Grammar checking are the essential tasks of an article writing, we use free tools to check grammar online and spell check. There are hundreds of websites that offers online tools to check spell and grammars. Either you are a freelancer writer or a blogger who is writing articles (posts), you should and must use spell check tools to find the spelling and grammars mistakes and to correct them (fix them). Once you use frequently then you will see your writing skills are improved. Even if your native language is English, you can’t to write error free articles every time, in case English is your second language that you can write and speak then you will find yourself having more grammatical mistakes and spelling errors. We’ve previously published Online Plagiarism checker free, which were the same important online tools. Online Spell Check and Grammar checker Tools Do You Know? Fix Spell and Grammar mistakes (To Use On Computer) Spell and Grammar Check Free (Online) SpellChecker
Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) Plagiarism Checker - Free Online Software For Plagiarism Detection A Turn to Learn: September 2012 This idea is actually a gem that one of my students thought of a few years ago! One of my classes' favorite YouTube videos was this one... "If You're a Boy" from Harry Kindergarten. Well... my kids were chatty one day and I said "If you're a boy zip your lips." One of my girls said "If you're a boy, a boy, if you're a boy zip your lips!" When my kids get chatty, all I do is start to sing the song! If they're extra loud, I have them do actions that will get the other students attention (e.g. ones that make them move more or make more noise) such as: pat your legs, jump up and down or clap your hands. If there's only one or two students chatting, I usually do more silent action, such as zip your lips, fold your hands. I actually also use this to get my students to clean up at the end of their writing period. How do you get your kids to quiet down!
News Dr Paul Denny, Computer Science Dept., University of Auckland, New Zealand When: Monday June 16thWhat Time:12.30 2.00 p.mWhere: 1.03 Lecture Theatre, Malet Place Engineering Building (MPEB), UCL Directions: Malet Place 1.03LT Malet Place Engineering Building. Most instructors are familiar with how challenging it is to create good multiple-choice questions with plausible alternative answers. This talk will present the pedagogical motivations for having students build and moderate their own repository of questions using the PeerWise web-based tool. Bio Paul Denny is an instructor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland.
The Cornerstone John Norman « CARET Website John Norman Director John combines a passion for innovation and a commitment to open source software with his considerable industry knowledge to help facilitate University collaboration both internally and internationally. John has led CARET since 2003 following a career as an entrepreneur setting up medical devices companies in the US and across Europe. An engineer by training, John worked in the steel and oil industries (which included a stint in the Algerian Sahara) before moving into business start ups. The most successful of these was Summit Technology Inc which went public at $200Million after just 18 months and later sold to the Alcon division of Nestle for $900Million. As well as his like of gadgets and new technology (you should see the cappuccino machine in the office) he is a keen sailor and once competed in the prestigious Fastnet race. University of Cambridge Appointments Other Appointments Education
Guidelines for Online Teaching Success Years ago at a faculty meeting Larry Ragan, PhD, director of Faculty Development for Penn State’s World Campus, was trying to soft-sell the idea of performance expectations for online faculty. He didn’t want the discussion to be misinterpreted as an indictment against their teaching style, but he also saw an opportunity to share proven practices for improving the online teaching and learning experience. Finally a senior faculty member grew tired of the tip-toeing around the subject and said, “If you don’t tell us what is expected, how will we know what to do to succeed?” The faculty member’s point was well taken, and over the years Ragan and others on various committees at Penn State have worked to define: Core competencies for online teaching success – Currently there are 28 competencies across the three main topic areas of technology, course administration, and pedagogy. The online instructor performance expectations he discussed are: 1. The instructor is expected to: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips | Higher Education Network 1) Have a strategy, make a plan Why do you want to write for journals? What is your purpose? Are you writing for research assessment? Have you researched other researchers in your field – where have they published recently? Having a writing strategy means making sure you have both external drivers – such as scoring points in research assessment or climbing the promotion ladder – and internal drivers – which means working out why writing for academic journals matters to you. 2) Analyse writing in journals in your field Take a couple of journals in your field that you will target now or soon. Scan other sections of the articles: how are they structured? 3) Do an outline and just write Which type of writer are you: do you always do an outline before you write, or do you just dive in and start writing? What types of headings are normally used there? When you sit down to write, what exactly are you doing:using writing to develop your ideas or writing to document your work? 6) Write with others
Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com untitled After conducting a systematic literature search across disciplines, our researchers have identified roughly 1,600 relevant academic journal articles, conference proceedings, and dissertations on e-learning and virtual teams published in the past decade. Here is a complete list of the most highly-cited and relevant academic journals for e-learning research, including the top Open Access journals ( The Impact Factor of a journal reflects the average number of citations an article in that journal receives. This data was collected using the Journal Citation Reports from Thompson Reuters. The relevance of a journal to our topic was calculated by measuring the number of times that journal populated in our literature sample. The most highly-cited, most relevant journal was Computers & Education with an Impact Factor of 2.5 and a relevance score of 41. What do you read to keep up-to-date with e-learning research?
The Ten Commandments of Effective Classroom Management The Ten Commandments of Effective Classroom Management By William Shoap closeAuthor: William Shoap Name: William ShoapSite: See Authors Posts (1) William Shoap posted these commandments on the Classroom Management chatboard, and we thought them worthy of sharing here. One of the biggest barriers to teaching and learning in any school environment is the lack of effective classroom management methods. Young teachers, new to the teaching profession, may possess the necessary academic knowledge to teach their subject but often must learn classroom management skills on the job, which can make for a very challenging first few years in this career. Here are 10 practical tips for new teachers to aid in building a successful classroom management strategy: Thou shall be called by no other name than “Mr.” or “Mrs” or “Ms.” This entry was posted on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 and is filed under *ISSUES, August 2010, William Shoap.