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Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators
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- This website is good to use when you need to find a way to facilitate online discussion.
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- Clearly written and well organized, the purpose of Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators is to enlighten moderators to best practices for creating rich dialogue as well as fostering learning between participants enrolled in online courses.
- he Virtual High School® Cooperative (http://www.govhs.org/website.nsf) and the International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition (http://intec.concord.org/), the text is rich with examples of effective online discussion forums designed to maximize learning goals within an e-learning format.
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Online Proofreading Software Services | Ginger Proof Reader
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- This is a great site I found on the hot Diigo site. I will be using this for my papers.
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Pronunciator - Learn to Speak 60 Languages - 100% Free
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- This is a great site for students to practice their language courses or for your on personal use in learning a new language.
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Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use for Students | Edutopia
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- This is a great site to use as educators for learning how how to incorporate technology in your classroom without actually having a computer for every student to use.
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- #3. Set up your technology in front of your students while talking them through the process. Eventually, create a "tech crew" made up of first period students that set up your technology during announcements in the morning. Maybe they come in a few minutes early. However you want to work it, ask the students to be involved.
- #6. Skype with another teacher on campus in front of the classes.
- #10. Present your lesson using a Powerpoint or a Prezi. Better yet, initially create it with input from the class so they can see how you assemble it. Now you're discussing content and methodology.
- #11. Show an excerpt from a TED.com video to introduce a concept.
- use a digital frame on your desk with scrolling pictures from your own collection.
- #18. Download Evernote to all of your devices so that as anything occurs to you (questions, eureka moments, resources discussed, etc.) you can whip out your smart phone, laptop, iPad, whatever, and model using the Cloud for ongoing note taking.
- #20. Model flexibility. Remember, whenever you use technology, things go wrong. Have a Plan B or at least model "water off a duck."
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10 Reasons to Trash Word for Google Docs | The Thinking Stick
- 1. No more corrupt files
- 2. No more corrupt USB Keys
- file you can't open or giving someone a file they can't open. With Google Docs simply share the link to your file on the Internet. If they have a web browser and an internet connect they can view the document.
- 4. Work Collaboratively
- 5. Share and Share a Like
- 6. Export to PDF or Word no problem
- 7. Make it Public
- 8. Work from any computer with Internet access
- 9. Work on the Go
- 10. Because it's the future
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Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia
- 83 percent of American adults now own cell phones and almost three-quarters (73 percent) send and receive text messages.
- . Cellphone owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages a day -- that's more than 3200 messages per month. T
- cellphones, particularly smart phones, are powerful mobile computing devices.
- f the cellphones have Internet access, students can use them to look up information online. Cellphones double as calculators and as cameras. And unlike iPads, e-readers, tablets, smart phones, laptops or desktop PCs, these devices are ubiquitous. Moreover, as the statistics indicate, text-messaging seems to be the preferred method of communication of teens.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Great article on Word vs. Google Docs! Thanks for sharing. :)
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