Rubrics for Assessment Learn more about our Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects. Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki RubricCriteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions. Blog RubricAssess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter RubricAssess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics Online Discussion Board RubricAssessing ability to share perspectives, refine thoughts through the writing process, and participate in meaningful discussionPrimary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (PDF)Features of a sandwich to graphically show the criteria PowerPoint and Podcast Rubrics A+ PowerPoint Rubric Joan Vandervelde's rubric provides 10 performance categories
reliable rubrics | developing rubrics that really work Welcome To Mixed Reality 2015 is going to be remembered as the year we entered an entirely new world, a world today known as Mixed Reality. What is Mixed Reality? In short, Mixed Reality is the world which we now inhabit where real and virtual objects co-exist and can causally influence each other. In Mixed Reality persistent virtual objects can be created, seen, and manipulated and they exist and are perceived as integrated with the real world. Together with the Internet of Things where environmental objects embed computational elements, sensors, and connectivity, Mixed Reality will radically alter the way we interact with and think about the world. Reality as we know it just ended. In 1994 Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino defined a Mixed Reality as “…anywhere between the extrema of the virtuality continuum.” “The conventionally held view of a Virtual Reality (VR) environment is one in which the participant-observer is totally immersed in, and able to interact with, a completely synthetic world.
Nik's Learning Technology Blog How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple By Dolores Gende Apple’s iBooks2 and authoring app has created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don’t necessarily need Apple’s slick devices and software to create their own books. As the open education movement continues to grow and become an even more rich trove of resources, teachers can use the content to make their own interactive textbooks. Here’s how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps. 1. Teachers can work with colleagues within their subject area departments and beyond the walls of the classroom to aggregate resources through social bookmarking. Also try Paper.li or The Twitted Times, which will sift through your connections’ resources and organize them. 2. One of the most user-friendly tools to post resources for your course is LiveBinders. You can find many more useful tools for curation. 3. Google Sites also allows you to create and share Web pages, and has lots of customizable features.
21st Century skills This is the second article of a three-part Business English series by ELT teacher, teacher trainer and course book author, John Hughes. Here, he looks at how the use of video can support business English teaching. One survey into the use of video in education reports that teachers increasingly welcome this tool as a means to support learning. For example, 68% of teachers believe video stimulates discussion, 66% say video increases motivation and 62% think their teaching is more effective by using video. Please see the link provided at the end of the article for more details of this survey. These figures are all based on responses to education in general, but I’d suggest that if you were to research similar figures for Business English teachers, you’d probably find the percentages were even higher. Here are five examples of how to integrate video into your Business English lessons, with suggestions for classroom activities. Presentation skills Watch this presentation taken from TED talks.
18 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers And Students - eLearning Industry Editor's note: We have originally written and published this article in February 2013. Thanks to your useful suggestions and our own following of the latest developments in the fast-paced field of technology, we have updated this piece in November 2015 in the hope that you will keep finding it useful. Thank you for sharing! Stories are important. 11 Free Digital Storytelling Websites ACMI Generator ACMI Generator is a creative studio space where you can explore the moving image, be inspired, create your own moving image works, and share your creations with the Generator community. Create the best Course for your School with the Right Vendor Find, choose and compare the top eLearning Content Development Companies for K12! 7 Free Apps For Digital Storytelling Adobe Slate Named App Store Editors’ Choice, Adobe Slate lets you turn your next newsletter, report, invitation, or travel adventure into a gorgeous visual story that delights readers on any device. Additional Note:
A New Way For Students To Share Notes & Learn Together For students with disabilities, some colleges and universities offer a note-taking service that includes collecting notes from the professor, a teaching assistant, or a fellow student. There are other students that might need to review classmates’ notes, however. A student athlete with an injury A student that wants to improve his note-taking skills and could use a model to follow Study group members that need a central repository for notes and a way to merge those notes together. Whatever the reason, Studyers.com , a website that claims to be “the easiest way to take notes on lessons,” wants to be their cloud-based alternative to the traditional notebook. The site is currently in the alpha stage, so access is restricted at this time. The Studyers Home Page Users can share the lessons with other users, and print the lessons to hard copy if they want. The lessons interface includes a text box, a drawpad, and a graph creator. The Lesson Interface We’re keeping an eye on this site.
Great Websites for Kids Selection Criteria Established by the first ALSC Children and Technology Committee, 1997; revised by the ALSC Great Websites Committee/revisions approved by the ALSC Board of Directors, 2013 Introduction: The Web is a lot like a flea market: there’s a vast selection of sites to choose from but not a lot of order to it. Some sites are offered by reputable “dealers” and some from individuals who want to show off their personal favorite items. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s a hidden treasure, and what’s a waste of time. It’s not hard to find sites if you use a search engine like Google, or a subject directory like Yahoo (or YahooKids!) Children’s librarians evaluate many types of media for children including books, audio books, e-books, videos, apps and websites. Notes: A. B. C. D.
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