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Tweet this! Ask anyone who has attended an online webinar presentation, a live "broadcast lecture", or viewed a lecture that has been video podcast, and chances are they were multitasking - big time. Let's face it: Without actually engaging the audience, a lecture is highly ineffective...
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Tweet this! Let's face it - there are more conferences on the planet than one can possibly attend. While I always appreciate the opportunity to participate and share stories about "Re-Imagining the Classroom", I simply cannot be traveling all the time. So I have recently tried using HP...
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Tweet this! In our ongoing quest to find ways to share the expertise of innovative educators, we have been collaborating with ISTE in the use of Second Life as a professional networking venue. The education talk show, "ISTE Eduverse Talks" has just completed its 8 th episode - and each one...
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Tweet this! It happens every time - a word becomes part of the popular lexicon and it becomes so generalized or over-used that its very definition becomes unclear. I am no Historian of Words nor am I a Linguist, but let me at least share with you how I think about "e-Learning"... The intent...
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Tweet this! The team at ISTE.org have convinced me that Second Life is a great venue for short "face"-to-"face" professional meetings when you can't travel to meet face-to-face. But lately I've been asking myself, "When is SL better than a classroom for students?"...
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Back by popular demand, next Thursday, June 11, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm SLT (6:00 pm-7:00 pm Pacific Time) is another virtual poster session in Second Life, this time focused on science & math Education... Just like the " Celebration of Environmental Education " poster session / social that was...
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Live classroom interaction is an instructional model that is often missing in synchronous online presentations. Richard Anderson, University of Washington, shows us how he brings graphical interaction into an online course that is broadcast synchronously to three sites - one of which is a world away...
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Online learning is no longer in its infancy - but many students are still complaining about the QUALITY of the learning experience. I am happy to report that this need NOT be the case for courses we are teaching or are about to teach. But, we have to be intentional about the re-design of the learning...
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Hurricane season is nothing new - but having a "course continuity plan" in the case of a hurricane evacuation is something that is new to me. Just last month, Hurricane Faye caused a short-term evacuation of students from Eckerd College, leading to an interesting experiment in remote instruction...
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With support from an HP Technology for Teaching grant, Professors Monson Hayes and Elliot Moore at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah, are leading a project entitled "Enhancing Distributed Learning Environments through Tablet PC Technology." The participating faculty are using DyKnow...
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Most of my blog postings have been focused on the face-to-face classroom use of technology. But a recent broadcast by NPR has me wondering if the growing interest in online learning in higher education is growing in the right direction… I’ve already blogged about my experience teaching an online conceptual...
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While most of my blogging is related to the HP Technology for Teaching philanthropy initiative, I thought I’d take a moment to share an article that describes my experience as an online instructor. If you’re thinking about converting a face-to-face course or workshop into an ONLINE course, I gladly share...