Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through Talking Photos. What a great way to communicate with others...
Computers and the Internet are valuable teaching and learning tools.
Find out how to engage your students in experiential (hands on)
learning activities that promote social skills via teamwork, higher
order critical thinking via inquiry ...
Layout of the course:
The course on web 2.0 tools for instruction and learning will begin on April
2nd.
Participants will engage in asynchronous and synchronous discussions on the
c...
iPods in Education iPods may be an effective way to learn 24/7. The only requirement is the purchase of an iPod and podcasts to download from the Internet. &n...
Can you teach music over the Internet? How? Can you teach with
Youtube? Nirvana? Piczo? Audacity? Billboard? Newsfeeds? Can you teach
in a way that is engaging for the learner? Find out how Learning music in an online environment What do...
“Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely imp...
To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you can:Gather Facts: Jot down things that a...
Researching YouTubeDigital EnthnographyDigital ethnography work group consisted of a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates
led by Dr. Michael Wesch who explored the impact of digital technology on human interaction
...
READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but this piece in the NY Times today absolutely hits the nail on th...
Developing a CurriculumWho should participate in the development of the school or course curriculum? Watch the following videos and decide for yourself.Part 2:1. Can students be responsible in developing a curriculum?
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How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts and concepts that panels of experts deem necessary for an &...
Teaching with Moodle
I have been teaching English to speakers of Hebrew for a number of years using Moodle for instruction and learning both in the computer lab and for distance learning. Moodle makes lesson planning, teaching, and in...
Grouping with MoodleGrouping and Individualized Instruction are important aspects of learning. Moodle allows the teacher to group students for teamwork and/or individual one-on-one instruction and learning.
The Perfect Society: A WebQuest
Literature Lesson by Nellie Deutsch
Materials Required: Internet access
Activity Time: 4-5 hours
Concepts Taught: Utopia, WebQuest,The Giver,a perfect community
Pre-lesson activities
The Perfect S...
Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive
timelines about the people and
things you care about. And things you are learning.Sign up on Dipity. (Again?! How many times I’ve clicked sign up on those web2.0es...
Michael Hodosh, aka Dr. Michael,
is a 49-year-old clinical psychologist who is shifting his focus from
face-to-face counseling to counseling online.
He’s making a lot more
money online in a lot less time. And he feels he is able to help ...
Spring, 2008: A recession looms large, credit continues to tighten, sales
are dwindling, and energy costs are rising.
If you’re not directly affected yet by these trends in the US economy, you
are most certainly indirectly affected an...
If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the global conversation and I know my friends want the same. I als...
What’s the difference between “regular” learning and “jumpstart” learning?For me, regular learning is starting at a chosen beginning and proceeding to an expected end while “jumpstarting” is star...
photo credit: e-magicOkay… You asked. I listened. I’ve setup another LIVE Session for this course on Wednesday, July 9, at 1:00 pm PDT. Many of the people participating in this course and others here at LearnHub are te...
If it’s too hard to read the image above, you can use this link to display it larger.”We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Over the course of the last week,...
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For too long learners have been let down by the way they’ve been taught math.
In fact, a lack of math proficiency remains one of the biggest single problems shared by learners across the globe, regardless of co...
By now, you already know what is an array, what is a structure, and how to use bit-packaged structure. Today, we will see what are unions and when & how we can use them. How you can create your own data types using typedef and how us...
Today, we will see yet another concept present in any programming
language. Naturally, we will see why at all we need functions. How a
function is declared and defined in C++? What new terms are related
with functions which are not there...