Hello Everyone,
As we near the end of development I would like to draw your attention back to the Online Course Development checklist.
Please be sure to go through this checklist thoroughly with each of your developments to ensure that they are complete. If you finish your development early please be sure to let me know!
I would also like to remind you of several Jing trainings that are available to you. These are very helpful and well worth the time to watch them!
Smarthinking.com Tour
Skillsoft Tour
Student Guide on How To Use Elluminate Live
Instructor Guide on How to Make Elluminate Live Sessions
Have a great Halloween Week!
Amy
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
October 19, 2009
Good Morning Developers,
Today I will be going into your courses to check for 75% completion. Please let me know if you have any concerns about this.
During your development you might be looking for some fun activities for your students to do in your course that are different ways of demonstrating their knowledge. Today I am going to highlight a few different online tools that you could work into your courses to provide your students with some fun and interesting ways to learn the course material:
Witty Comics.com: On this website students can make a comic to demonstrate their knowledge. This can be a great way to make an assignment fun!
Classtools.net: Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash. There are a bunch of different templates you can chose from. Here is a link to a video on how to use this tool
You could have your students create a game as an assignment and then share their games with the rest of the class.
Glogster.com: This is a multimedia collage building website that allows you to set up an educational site for your students. It is a wonderfully interactive tool to use as a student project.
Weebly: Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Your students could work individually, in groups, or as an entire class to create a web site on a particular topic. This video will answer all of your questions about Weebly
Amy
Today I will be going into your courses to check for 75% completion. Please let me know if you have any concerns about this.
During your development you might be looking for some fun activities for your students to do in your course that are different ways of demonstrating their knowledge. Today I am going to highlight a few different online tools that you could work into your courses to provide your students with some fun and interesting ways to learn the course material:
Witty Comics.com: On this website students can make a comic to demonstrate their knowledge. This can be a great way to make an assignment fun!
Classtools.net: Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash. There are a bunch of different templates you can chose from. Here is a link to a video on how to use this tool
You could have your students create a game as an assignment and then share their games with the rest of the class.
Glogster.com: This is a multimedia collage building website that allows you to set up an educational site for your students. It is a wonderfully interactive tool to use as a student project.
Weebly: Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Your students could work individually, in groups, or as an entire class to create a web site on a particular topic. This video will answer all of your questions about Weebly
Amy
Monday, October 12, 2009
October 12, 2009
Good Morning Developers,
Please note that next week I will be going into your courses and checking for 75% completion.
In the recent past I have done blog posts on making sure to utilize all of the wonderful resources in the online library in your courses. However, I have noticed that many times we simply give students the link of where to go in the library. I would like to suggest that we list out how to find the assignment rather than just give the link.
The resource should be listed in APA format with instructions on how to find it in the library so that students get used to using the library. By having to search out the information for themselves they will become more comfortable with the tools and will hopefully feel confident doing their own research in the future. Here is an example of how you could list a resource in the online library:
Read the following article from the online library on Software Development Outsourcing. Outsourcing of software development is a widely used approach to contain costs by contracting with a 3rd party, generally outside the country, to develop custom software. Money can be saved but there are pitfalls, as you will learn.
Conchuir, E., Ågerfalk, P., Olsson, H., & Fitzgerald, B. (2009, August). Global Software Development: Where are the Benefits?. Communications of the ACM, 52(8), 127-131. DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536648.
Here's how you find the article:
1. Click on the library link in red to the left.
2. Click on Online library.
3. Hover your mouse over "resources"
4. Click on Databases A-G.
5. Click on Business Source Premier.
6. Search for the title of the article in quotation marks.
Please note that next week I will be going into your courses and checking for 75% completion.
In the recent past I have done blog posts on making sure to utilize all of the wonderful resources in the online library in your courses. However, I have noticed that many times we simply give students the link of where to go in the library. I would like to suggest that we list out how to find the assignment rather than just give the link.
The resource should be listed in APA format with instructions on how to find it in the library so that students get used to using the library. By having to search out the information for themselves they will become more comfortable with the tools and will hopefully feel confident doing their own research in the future. Here is an example of how you could list a resource in the online library:
Read the following article from the online library on Software Development Outsourcing. Outsourcing of software development is a widely used approach to contain costs by contracting with a 3rd party, generally outside the country, to develop custom software. Money can be saved but there are pitfalls, as you will learn.
Conchuir, E., Ågerfalk, P., Olsson, H., & Fitzgerald, B. (2009, August). Global Software Development: Where are the Benefits?. Communications of the ACM, 52(8), 127-131. DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536648.
Here's how you find the article:
1. Click on the library link in red to the left.
2. Click on Online library.
3. Hover your mouse over "resources"
4. Click on Databases A-G.
5. Click on Business Source Premier.
6. Search for the title of the article in quotation marks.
Monday, October 5, 2009
October 5th, 2009
Good Morning Developers,
I have done quite a few blog posts on the benefits of having your students do blogs. Although, grading the work that students do online can be difficult, as this is new territory for a lot of instructors. Here is a link to a rubric for grading student blogs. If you require your students to do a blog post or create a blog please take a look at this example rubric for grading purposes. You could include a sample rubric in your course for future instructors to use when grading the blogs or you could simply include the link in your course for future instructors to have access to.
Have a great week!
Amy
I have done quite a few blog posts on the benefits of having your students do blogs. Although, grading the work that students do online can be difficult, as this is new territory for a lot of instructors. Here is a link to a rubric for grading student blogs. If you require your students to do a blog post or create a blog please take a look at this example rubric for grading purposes. You could include a sample rubric in your course for future instructors to use when grading the blogs or you could simply include the link in your course for future instructors to have access to.
Have a great week!
Amy