Maryellen Weimer, the Teaching Professor, posts a strategy to get students involved in creating elements of a syllabus.
Faculty Focus posts on the principles of a successful course redesign.
First Monday, an online peer reviewed journal, posts a study on students’ use of Wikipedia.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Over a cup of coffee: March 9th edition
Numerous posts on writing in the classroom including advice for peer-editing and using drawing as a way to improve writing.
Dan Cohen's posts a narrative of the history of Pi, offering creative ways to use storytelling and technology to communicate mathematics.
ProfHacker guest writer Derek Bruff discusses how he writes and uses multiple choice questions to check conceptual understanding.
Tools for Teaching has numerous resources on teaching and learning, here they focus on collaborative learning.
Consider using the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) from Tufts University. This software allows for the easy creation of mind maps and other organizing visualizations.
Dan Cohen's posts a narrative of the history of Pi, offering creative ways to use storytelling and technology to communicate mathematics.
ProfHacker guest writer Derek Bruff discusses how he writes and uses multiple choice questions to check conceptual understanding.
Tools for Teaching has numerous resources on teaching and learning, here they focus on collaborative learning.
Consider using the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) from Tufts University. This software allows for the easy creation of mind maps and other organizing visualizations.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Over a cup of coffee: March 2nd edition
Instructional Design and Development posts a blog on FERPA rights in the web 2.0 classroom.
The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning publish their first issue of 2010.
The Tomorrow's Professor Blog has some advice for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism.
Blogging Pedagogy provides links to interesting ways to use Google Earth in literature and writing courses.
Faculty Focus writer Maryellen Weimer helps us guide student reflection.
The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning publish their first issue of 2010.
The Tomorrow's Professor Blog has some advice for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism.
Blogging Pedagogy provides links to interesting ways to use Google Earth in literature and writing courses.
Faculty Focus writer Maryellen Weimer helps us guide student reflection.
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