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05 Nov 09

Mr. Higgins’ Blog » Blog Archive » ClustrMaps as Student Motivation

A great description from a teacher of how his students are motivated by the ClustrMap on his class website, including how it inspires them to look up places on Google Earth

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20 reasons why students should blog « On an e-journey with generation Y

A nice summary of reasons for students to blog. Even if you don't agree with everything (for example, the digital natives bit in #16), this is a good place to start answering the question.

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Steve Stander :: Blog :: Blogging & Motivation: Psychology of Language Learning

Looking at blogging as a way to motivate students to write through the lens of Determination Theory (Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness), examining how to generate and maintain motivation. Also discusses an inquiry-based learning approach with blogging.

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Blogs Give Students an Audience | Edutopia

Interview with an 8th grade teacher about how having an audience for their blog has motivated her students

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  • One thing that was surprising to the students and to me was the comments thanking the students. I think that was new for them, having someone appreciate that they did this work.
04 Nov 09

CogDogBlog » Fear of Googled Past

Some common sense in response to fears of "Oh no! Someone might Google me someday and find out I'm not perfect!"

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Angela Maiers Educational Services: Personal Branding and Education - Thoughts on "Me 2.0"

A discussion of personal branding and its connections to education, arguing that being able to demonstrate your talents and passions is a 21st century skill

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  • Speaking from both his head and heart, Dan makes he compelling case that it is no longer is it enough to show that you are great, you have to show why you are a great match for a culture and brand of the company you want to work for. You have to be able to sell yourself, your talents, your passions, your uniqueness. (Aren't these Key 21st Century Skills?)
03 Nov 09

KAVEWALL: STOCK PHOTOS

CC-By photos, mostly for textures. Lots of closeups of objects & nature (rock, fire, smoke, wood, glass, electric, etc.)

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The Usefulness of Wenger’s Framework in Understanding a Community of Practice.

Jane Bozarth's dissertation on communities of practice, including a proposed revised framework for analyzing and understanding these communities. The revised version clarifies the difference between engagement and participation and adjusts definitions of other terms.

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10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer : The eLearning Coach

Brief discussion about whether instructional designers need degrees, followed by a list of qualities for successful instructional designers like "Be obsessed with learning everything."

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02 Nov 09

The E-learning List | The Marketplace for E-learning Services

E-learning service providers can register on this site for free in different categories. Companies looking for e-learning solutions can submit RFPs and find people to work with.

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29 Oct 09

Comprehensive List of Free Online Classes and Online Courses

Lots of open courseware classes from different universities, sorted by subject. Nice to have an aggregated list from the various sources

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Volunteer Opportunity to Build Your eLearning Portfolio | onehundredfortywords

Info on an organization looking for volunteer instructional designers/developers to create content for job seekers. They are OK with content being used in a portfolio, so this is a good place to gain some experience and get something to show for a portfolio.

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28 Oct 09

Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report

UNC report on their pilot of Sakai as a replacement for Blackboard. Quote from a faculty member in the report: "Have heard many complaints about Blackboard being kludgy. Sakai is graceful."

The minimal support needed is a good sign of Sakai's overall usability: "First, of the more than 1,000 people using a completely new collaborative learning environment for almost a full year period, we had a total of 264 tickets—the vast majority of which (74%) were for requests to use the system (new sites
and new user accounts)...In summary, from a support perspective, 54 substantive help requests on behalf of more than 1,000 pilot participants over a nearly one-year period was a very positive finding."

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The eLearning Coach » Blog Archive » User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated

Tips and simple examples for user interface design. The elevator example is perhaps not the best metaphor for structuring learning, but the concept is good.

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26 Oct 09

Swftools.com - Flash tools, utilities, applications, components

Directory of tools that do at least some of what Flash can do or that work with Flash--presentation tools, quiz tools, PowerPoint to Flash converters, ActionScript editors, etc. Most have free demos; not many open source options in this area.

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22 Oct 09

Guide to Annotating using Diigo

Screencast showing annotation feature in Diigo

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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - Sean Kearney's Lifestream

Interesting research--totally flies in the face of how most of us think about designing learning. Do we design learning environments that allow people to fail enough to learn?

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  • The idea embedded in this approach is that if students make errors, they will learn the errors and be prevented (or slowed) in learning the correct information. But research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors
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