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May 19th, 2010 by Paul Younghouse

Orientation and Integration

Faculty-written Intros and Overviews
Identify Topics and Themes
Activate prior knowledge
Preview ideas that will come up
(Advance organizers)

Presentation

Lecture Notes
Slide Presentations
Audio/Video Recordings

Additional Material

Supplemental
Remedial

Application

Reactions to Prompts
(Images, Video clips, Short essays/posts)
Journaling
Critical Readings
Annotations
Glossary Writing
Short Biographies
Timelines
Genealogies, Family Trees
Interviewing
Placing in Context

Discussion

Playing “Tag” (with Lists)
Student-written Summaries – Peer review
Student-written SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat)
Crowd-sourcing
Indexing (Categories, Tags)

— Paul Younghouse

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Talk over the agenda

May 18th, 2010 by Paul Younghouse

Resources:

Webcampus

  • Discussion boards -asynchronous, branching
  • Chat/Virtual Classroom – synchronous, Java-based
  • Groups – mix of tools/resources

Wikis

Google Resources – do you know what your students have access to?

Weblogs – blogs

Features of WordPress blogs:

  1. Dashboard
  2. Posts
  3. Pages
  4. Comments
  5. Appearance
  6. Media
  7. Users
  8. Settings

Evaluation:

  • Rubrics, Checklists, Scales

— Paul Younghouse

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Getting Started

May 18th, 2010 by Paul Younghouse

Create a “nom de plume” e-mail account
https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

Blogger/Blogspot
http://www.blogger.com/

WordPress
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/

CTLT Dialogues
http://ctlt.wordpress.com/

— Paul Younghouse

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