Wikis: The Power of Collaborative Learning
Tech Tips: Internet Explorer 7 Printing Shortcuts
Educator Louise Maine provides an excellent chart highlighting how wikis enhance 21st century learning.
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed
Writing in Campus Technology, Linda L Briggs describes the benefits of using wikis in higher education.
Wiki Woman: How a Web Tool Saved My Career
Grace Rubinstein offers quick tips for successful use of wikis in the classroom and describes how a high school teacher transformed her teaching with the use of wikis.
The Wiki Revolution: A Challenge To Traditional Education
Rita Zeinstejer lists effective uses of wikis to enhance instruction and professional development.
Examples of Educational Wikis
The PBWiki Educators section provides links to examples of quality educational wikis.
GoApes Wiki
Here’s a terrific example of an effective professional development Web site that was nominated for Edublogs’ Best Educational Wiki of 2007. The audience is environmental educators, but the model is useful for all teaching areas.
Tech Tips: Internet Explorer 7 Printing Shortcuts
Tip #1: When you only want to print part of a Web page such as a paragraph or an image, you can copy and paste into a word processor and print from there; however, here is a quicker way:
Highlight the desired text or image with the mouse, go to the File menu and select Print, and then click the Selection button. Now only the selected part will print.
Tip #2: If a desired Web page includes links to other must-print Web pages, you can easily print both the original Web page and the linked pages all at once.
Go to File- Print, select the Option tab, check the Print all Linked Documents box, and then click OK.
Sign Up Soon for Online Courses Starting in September
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/courses.shtml
Meet your professional development goals for learning new skills, changing salary lanes, licensure renewal and advanced certification.
The following classes still have openings:
Courses Beginning on September 15
EDUC 744 954 Instructional Leadership Skills
EDUC 744 930 Web Design for Educators
EDUC 744 939 Intermediate Web Design
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed
Writing in Campus Technology, Linda L Briggs describes the benefits of using wikis in higher education.
Wiki Woman: How a Web Tool Saved My Career
Grace Rubinstein offers quick tips for successful use of wikis in the classroom and describes how a high school teacher transformed her teaching with the use of wikis.
The Wiki Revolution: A Challenge To Traditional Education
Rita Zeinstejer lists effective uses of wikis to enhance instruction and professional development.
Examples of Educational Wikis
The PBWiki Educators section provides links to examples of quality educational wikis.
GoApes Wiki
Here’s a terrific example of an effective professional development Web site that was nominated for Edublogs’ Best Educational Wiki of 2007. The audience is environmental educators, but the model is useful for all teaching areas.
Tech Tips: Internet Explorer 7 Printing Shortcuts
Tip #1: When you only want to print part of a Web page such as a paragraph or an image, you can copy and paste into a word processor and print from there; however, here is a quicker way:
Highlight the desired text or image with the mouse, go to the File menu and select Print, and then click the Selection button. Now only the selected part will print.
Tip #2: If a desired Web page includes links to other must-print Web pages, you can easily print both the original Web page and the linked pages all at once.
Go to File- Print, select the Option tab, check the Print all Linked Documents box, and then click OK.
Sign Up Soon for Online Courses Starting in September
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/courses.shtml
Meet your professional development goals for learning new skills, changing salary lanes, licensure renewal and advanced certification.
The following classes still have openings:
Courses Beginning on September 15
EDUC 744 954 Instructional Leadership Skills
EDUC 744 930 Web Design for Educators
EDUC 744 939 Intermediate Web Design
Courses Beginning on September 17
RDGED 703 Children’s Literature in the Reading Program
RDGED 704 Young Adult Literature in the Reading Program
EDUC 744 941 Mentoring Teachers
Courses Beginning on September 19
EDUC 744 958 Teaching Art for Non-Art Teachers
EDUC 744 963 Teaching English Language Learners (ELL) in General Education
Courses beginning on September 22
EDUC 744 957 Differentiation in the Classroom
EDUC 744 920 Teaching Writing with the 6-Traits
EDUC 744 911 Effective Classroom Management
EDUC 760 E-learning for Educators
EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
RDGED 705 Instructional Techniques for Assisting Students with Reading Difficulties
RDGED 702 Reading in the Content Areas K-12
EDUC 744 951 Teaching Information Literacy
EDUC 744 940 School Library and Classroom Collaborations
EDUC 744 920 Teaching Writing with the 6-Traits
EDUC 744 911 Effective Classroom Management
EDUC 760 E-learning for Educators
EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
RDGED 705 Instructional Techniques for Assisting Students with Reading Difficulties
RDGED 702 Reading in the Content Areas K-12
EDUC 744 951 Teaching Information Literacy
EDUC 744 940 School Library and Classroom Collaborations
Courses Beginning on September 29
EDUC 744 914 Methods of Teaching Middle School Math (Grades 4-8)
EDUC 744 965 Issues and Problems in Teaching Primary Mathematics - K-3
EDUC 744 956 Building Better Instruction with Technology
EDUC 744 964 Workforce Development: Every Teacher’s Responsibility
EDUC 744 928 Instructional Applications of Digital Photography
EDUC 744 966 Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations
EDUC 744 938 Digital Media and Visual Literacy
EDUC 744 927 Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists
EDUC 744 965 Issues and Problems in Teaching Primary Mathematics - K-3
EDUC 744 956 Building Better Instruction with Technology
EDUC 744 964 Workforce Development: Every Teacher’s Responsibility
EDUC 744 928 Instructional Applications of Digital Photography
EDUC 744 966 Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations
EDUC 744 938 Digital Media and Visual Literacy
EDUC 744 927 Innovations and Opportunities for Media Specialists
REGISTER ONLINE TO RESERVE A SPOT
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required. Select university billing, and no payment is due until early September. A payment plan option is available for fall semester
posted by Karen Franker, Editor @ 8/27/2008 09:03:00 PM
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Flattening the Classroom
Tech Tip: Embed YouTube, Teacher Tube or Google Videos on Your Website
Seven Steps to a Flat Classroom
In this Slide share presentation, Vicki Davis describes and illustrates the seven essential principles for an effective flat classroom.
Flattening the World: How to Harness Web 2.0 Tools To Engage Learners Inside and Outside the Classroom
Doug Balsa’s Slide share presentation shows how educators can get started in creating a truly global classroom.
The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom
Vicki Davis describes the tools and student competencies needed for each phase of evolving into a collaborative and global “classroom without walls”.
Flatten Your Classroom and Embrace 21st Century Learning (Slide Share presentation)
Julie Lindsay’s conference presentation provides an overview of how the flat classroom concept supports 21st century learning skills.
Flat Classroom Project Student Awards
Award-winning examples of student videos created as part of the Flat Classroom Project.
Tech Tip: Embed YouTube, Teacher Tube or Google Videos on Your Website
It is very useful to insert playable imported videos within your Web page or blog so that users have quick access. Here’s how to quickly embed video code from YouTube:
1. Locate the video on YouTube.
2. To the right of the area where the video displays (under the video description), you will see a field called Embed followed by HTML code.
3. Copy and paste all of that HTML code into the HTML View of your Website or blog post. Hint: Be sure to paste the code in the area of your page where you want the video to appear.
This trick will work on all popular video sites. Just look for the option that says Video Code, Embed Video or Put This Video on Your Page. Remember to include a citation with the title and creator of the video as well as a hyperlink to the original source.
Search/Browse 40 Online Courses Starting in September
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/courses.shtml
Fall courses will be offered including web design, poverty in schools, methods of teaching art, math, reading and writing, technology integration, classroom management, teaching English Language Learners, autism, differentiation, inclusion, assessment, instructional leadership, mentoring, bullying in schools, school library/media specialists, relearning and online teaching.
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required. Select university billing, and no payment is due until early September. A payment plan option is available for fall semester
Labels: Online Teaching, Tech Tips
posted by Karen Franker, Editor @ 8/08/2008 10:25:00 PM