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Efficiency and Fun in Angel

I have created some video's on Efficiency and a little bit of fun in Angel. I did these using Jing, a free tool to capture your screen. jumping_between_courses.swf Getting from one course to another quickly. More_room_to_see.swf Need… Continue

Added by Kyla on September 26, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools

This is a great resource for web tools divided by catogory: web tools Continue

Added by Kyla on August 31, 2009 at 11:25am — No Comments

Building your own Text

This blog is an instructor who sets up iGoogle with feeds for his students. This material is then used to construct the learning. He describes why he chooses the feeds and what he does with them. Most diciplines could find this a nice way to give currancy to material. Angel has a tool where this idea can be incoorperated into the online classroom. Continue

Added by Kyla on August 20, 2009 at 9:08am — No Comments

Online Educatoin is Successful

Online-Education Study Reaffirms Value of Good Teaching, Experts Say A recent Education Department report backs up scholars' views that effective instructional methods are what help students succeed, in any medium. Continue

Added by Kyla on July 2, 2009 at 7:55am — No Comments

Copyright Guide

The City University of New York's Baruch College recently released an interactive guide to using multimedia in courses. Here is the link http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/copyright/ Continue

Added by Kyla on June 24, 2009 at 3:36pm — No Comments

What does the Blackboard buy out of ANGEL mean to Washington State Community Colleges

This message came from Cable Green the e-Learning Director for the Washington State Community and Technical Colleges. Greetings Presidents, IC, ITC, SS, ELC, LMDC and SBCTC Staff, As you know, Blackboard (Bb) has announced it is acquiring ANGEL. Twenty-nine of our system colleges have either moved to ANGEL or have plans to do so in the coming months (see below). I spoke with ANGEL’s CEO on Wednesday and will speak with ANGEL and Bb’s CEOs next week. If you have any questions you’d like me to… Continue

Added by Kyla on May 11, 2009 at 9:46am — No Comments

Open Source = World Digital Library

From the Chronicle “In the latest and perhaps broadest effort to provide instant access to scholarly resources, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization today inaugurated its World Digital Library, a Web site that allows visitors to browse through a trove of artifacts spanning the history of civilization.” World Digital Library Continue

Added by Kyla on April 22, 2009 at 8:11am — No Comments

The Collaborative Curve

Introducing the Collaborative Curve discusses the power of collaboration and and how performance improves as there is more collaboration experience. This article sparks interest in how the same ideas could be used in classes and programs to raise the performance level of all students. Continue

Added by Kyla on April 9, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

Open resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities:

• http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning Free PDF version Continue

Added by Kyla on March 25, 2009 at 8:19am — No Comments

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

Academic Earth. If you haven't checked out this site yet, you might want to. Some great resources for instructors. Continue

Added by Kyla on March 24, 2009 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Amazing technology

This one has nothing to do with e-learning. It is just an amazing technology that elicited a Wow from me. YouTube Video Continue

Added by Kyla on March 6, 2009 at 7:50am — No Comments

Exploring the quick lecture format for online learning

The Chronicle of Higher Education Information Technology From the issue dated March 6, 2009 These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds Minute-long talks find success at a community college By DAVID SHIEH Take a 60-minute lecture. Cut the excess verbiage, do away with most of the details, and pare it down to key concepts and themes. What's left? A "microlecture" over in as few as 60 seconds. A course design… Continue

Added by Kyla on March 3, 2009 at 8:26am — No Comments

Economic Crisis and Higher Education

From "The Wired Campus February 24, 2009 "Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis Where will higher education be the day after the current global economic crisis passes? If you think things will simply go back to the way they were once the economy recovers in a year or two, think again. " Read the entire post here Continue

Added by Kyla on February 24, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Toon Doo - creating your own cartoon

This website allows you to create your own cartoon that you can then publish anywhere. Have a particular point that you don't want students to forget. Make a cartoon and help them remember that way. This is a nice way to spice up your information. Toon Doo Continue

Added by Kyla on February 24, 2009 at 1:45pm — No Comments