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Social Media in State Government
Tutorial on the use of social media for North Carolina state agencies.
Best Practices for Social Media Usage in North Carolina
All agency communication tools should be used in ways that maximize transparency, maintain the security of the network, and are appropriately professional. Social media is no exception. Therefore, the application of social media within state agencies must be done thoughtfully and in a manner that will minimize risk
5 Ways to Ruin Your Next Presentation
Carmine Gallo, presentation coach and author of the upcoming book The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (McGraw-Hill, October 2009), has counseled many executives on how to give a great presentation. He's also witnessed many common—yet avoidable—presentation errors that people always seem to commit.
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Innovations in Education TV show
The show features Stony Brook faculty and staff using innovative approaches and best practices in teaching, and applications of educational technology that have had a positive effect on student learning. Interviews are around 15 minutes long and focus primarily on faculty members.
Poster Session Interviews POD 2008-10-03
Short video interviews with poster session presenters at the POD conference.
Blogging Works - We Proved It
For A Farewell to Arms, we started with a lottery. Everyone chose a name of a junior and selected a second junior to follow. Besides choosing a quote to reflect on, students also read and commented on two classmates' blogs. The first effect: students talked about blogs during class, their own and their classmates'.
Baylor University || Technology for Faculty || 2009 Presentations
List of poster presenters at a Baylor U. Teaching with Technology event.
Using a Flip Video Camera in the Classroom
Here's a quick video I recorded in which I share some ideas for how to use a Flip video camera in your classroom.
International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments provides readers with a comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communications technologies. The journal publishes work of a high standard on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), Social Networking Software (SNS), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL).
Net-Map Toolbox
Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes.
Centre for Educational Technology
Home page of the Centre for Educational Technology of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
CSU Interact - learning and teaching examples
The examples have been compiled from academics across the University and its four faculties, teaching in both distance and face-to-face modes. The academics' stories are grouped according to the purpose of the learning and teaching activity that is described within them. Some stories include multiple types of activity and accordingly feature in more than one category.
Thinking like a historian: Writing historical narratives, wikis, and doing history
History isn’t simply an unchanging factual account of the past; it is a narrative reconstruction of the past or a story told about the past, which is created following certain, often unspoken, rules. Historians sift through the surviving evidence of the past and weigh it. In the process they have to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, and contradiction. Learning how to do this last task is a major goal of B301 The Crusades. Students do not simply “learn” history; they “do” history, that is, create historical narratives themselves, and in the process become more experienced in working with the complications provided by evidence.
Faculty to Faculty : TRACS Facts
Texas State faculty that are TRACS users provide lessons learned and tips for you. They also share their innovative ways of using the system. Their ideas can save you time and effort, and offer new tools to strengthen your teaching.
UD computer science students create teaching aids
Three teams of four students spent Winter Session collaboratively problem solving how to manipulate Myro robots and how to create learning games for young children who have received an XO laptop from the One Laptop per Child program.
Cyber Teachers' Institute Series
Join us in this stimulating online program designed to bring teachers together to learn from each other, evaluate best teaching practices, and search for solutions to the unique challenges of the online environment. The engaging dialogue on teaching is the highlight of CTI.
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