Category Archives: e-tools

Faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland did study on Students’ Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education The researchers had asked their students this question: What characteristics are essential for effective teaching from the student perspective? Analyzing and combining reasonably synonymous characteristics, researchers isolated the top nine for online and for face-to-face students. ONLINE FACE-TO-FACE 1. [...]

Via: Online Colleges Guide

Prezi for Faculty Council meeting Dec.8, 2011 Use this google doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/157sDCWbhFxDmUa4iPDXGBRfiSW_kpLvZbV19L_9qxWk/edit) to add your ideas, comments or questions while attending this prezi presentation. This is often called a back channel, an informal channel of communication. Hopefully the wireless won’t fail us in this room. Please use this link to follow me as I present. I [...]

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My prezi used to introducing myself to the schools/programs of the Faculty of Health Sciences, UWO. I use this one to present to each school Introduction of Instructional Designer on Prezi

This makes sense to me. I always called it intuition but hunches on the back burner or tucked away in the back of the mind is an interesting concept. Collaboration, sharing hunches, moves a society forward. Our sharing communities, like social bookmarking, blogs, wikis and video sharing is great proof of creating good ideas. Of [...]

I came across an article by Seymour Papert: Project-Based Learning on www.edutopia.org . In this article, Papert mentions ‘the importance of teachers learning alongside students’ “What we need is kinds of activity in the classroom where the teacher is learning at the same time as the students and with the students. Unless you do that, [...]

I was just reading a blog post on How do you analyse and select an educational technology. It got me thinking about how I approach it. 1st I hear about an Educational Technology through my social networks, twitter, LinkedIn groups, FaceBook ect. I’ll go to the site and explore I’ll watch any videos about the [...]

Via: OnlineEducation.net

Are we really listening or are we existing on the internet only in our comfort zone with our “own’