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The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Site of the Week: Meez - Review by PC Magazine
» How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning
Kapp Notes: Accidental Learning and the Power of Stories
File-Size Considerations for Captivate Demonstrations and Simulations
Blogging 101 motivates students
Indeed, blogging acts as an important motivational tool for learning, said Dean Shareski, head of digital learning for the Prairie South School Board. Students are more motivated when they realize hundreds of people can view their work, Shareski said, noting interest in writing has increased since the blogs began.
7 Things You Should Know About...
<p>The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) <em>7 Things You Should Know About...</em> series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:</p>
<ul>
<li>What it is</li>
<li>How it works</li>
<li>Where it is going</li>
<li>Why it matters to teaching and learning</li></ul>
Whatever You Do, Don’t Drop Practice | Tom Werner
The only instructional element that really matters is practice with feedback.
Design Shouldn’t Always Mean Instructional Design | Tom Werner
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Leonard Bernstein Center
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Pageflakes for FOE2007
Bill Kerr: just the facts about online youth victimisation
Disclosing personal information on line does not put teens at risk. What puts teens in danger is being willing to talk about sex on line with strangers or having a pattern of multiple risky activities on the web like going to sex sites and chat rooms<br><br>So, to prevent these crimes is going to be a lot more awkward, messy and complicated than something as bland as telling teens not to publish their personal information on line
Second Life | Education
Suffern Middle School in Second Life
Clive on Learning: The Cult of the Amateur
Before mass media, ordinary people painted, wrote poems and short stories, sang and played the piano. Then mass media not only took over all our discretionary time, it intimidated us with its multi-million dollar production budgets, its worship of celebrity and its stranglehold on the public consciousness. With web 2.0, the staus qou has been re-established. People once more feel empowered to be creative again; no more just voyeurs of the supposedly clever and talented.
Option Six - Improving Performance Though E-Learning
Performance, Learning, Leadership, & Knowledge Site
Adventures in Statistics
Digital History
Healthcare Industry Basics
Free Sound Effects: Nature Sounds : Public Domain Sounds
ictr06 » E-portfolios
Online Learning Resources on the Web
The Bamboo Project Blog: 5 Uses for a Wiki at Work
Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research |
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How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses
However, studies such as
one by Miller and Webster (1997, December) have found no significant
difference in assessments of interaction between students in
a synchronous (face-to-face) and asynchronous courses. Horn (1994)
and Hirumi and Bermudez (1996) are among those who find that,
with proper instructional design, distance courses actually can
be more interactive than traditional ones, providing more personal
and timely feedback to meet students’ needs than is possible
in large, face-to-face courses.