tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88087242008-04-18T10:56:27.809-04:00To keep you informed about useful resources and important developments related to the integration of teaching and technology at George Mason University.rreohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11339594094859247907noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808724.post-1123780566142261992005-08-11T13:14:00.000-04:002005-08-11T14:41:40.696-04:00

Teaching and Learning with Technology LISTSERV available to Faculty! A new and informative LISTSERV, designed not to overwhelm your e-mail service, has been created by the folks at the Instructional Resource Center (IRC) for faculty interested in using technology for courses. The Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) list was established to foster communication supporting the

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Read what the Librarians are doing. liaisonland@libraries.gmu.edu

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Feldstein and Farmer provide differing perspectives on the future of enterprise level CMSs / LMSs, such as our lovable WebCT, relative to Open Source Software (OSS). http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/webct_and_open_source/ According to Feldstein, the way this all plays out in the future is: "What we’ll have is an Open Source Learning Management Operating System--a service-oriented

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } futurevle, originally uploaded by Homo Bloggus. This is just a test of how I can compose a blog entry from within Flickr (a popular web-based photo collection tool)and have it posted with the image in a

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I'm here at the Forum enjoying the first couple sessions: Dr. Mills Kelly discuss "Connecting Information Technology to our Pedagogical Goals" and Dr Diane Bunce is talking about the Effect of Different Implementations of Classroom Technology on Student Learning". For more info: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/infoservices/efiles.html#elearning

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Using Blogging as a Teaching Tool, Paula Petrik Paula discussed her highly structured use of blogs in a Hist 120 class (45 students). Her focus was to improve writing and enable collaborative learning. Each of these activities was assessed with rubrics provided. She listed the following outcomes of her integration of blogs into the course: std writing improvedstd community developedevinced pride

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The recent showcase on using Online Homework Assessments and the Personal Response System for Developing Student Proficiency was very informative and engaging. Dr. Geller discussed how he uses homework assignments by having students review and prepare for Physics laboratory assignments effectively. Dr. Schreifels discussed how he uses homework and quizzes in the Chemistry and biochemistry

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"The Digital Media Center at the University of Minnesota worked with a faculty member over the 2003-04 academic year to create a Design History Timeline learning object to help students in her History of Visual Communication course see the connections between art objects and events across time periods. The learning object integrates Flash and XML to provide a dynamic timeline that incorporates

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Auricle I sense there is some potential in the sudden proliferation of audio files and "Podcasting" that have uses for online learning, research, and simply making content available for student assignments offline in MP3 players. Or as easy and alternative way for all of us to try to keep up-to-date with our information streams.

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Blogger enables you to make blog posts via the telephone. Download your students audio posts and listen to them on your MP3 player on the way home. Blogger Audioblogging http://www.audioblogger.com/index.html

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If you were unable to attend DoIT’s Instructional Resource Center WebCT symposium on Best Practices in Distance Education at Mason last week, you can view the program at: http://www.irc.gmu.edu/highlights/webctsymposium.html and contact Eugene Lord for questions about the event, or Jerry Drake for questions about WebCT. The all day program featured individuals and programs that use the WebCT

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irclogol1, originally uploaded by Homo Bloggus This is a sample of adding an image from Flickr.com (an online photo sharing tool) to a designated blog(s). Flickr makes it easy to set it up to automatically login/post to a blog. It also provides a template to use - this is the small size image w/ text on same line. Also, hover your cursor over the IRC logo image and notice that it enables you to

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Pachyderm is a multimedia authoring & publishing tool that makes it pretty easy to author multimedia demonstrations or instructional content online by uploading materials to a server-based system. Digital assets can be shared between users. Pachyderm is finally available in beta release and will be available for free to the public sometime towards the end of this year. To see what this tool

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You can't teach effectively with technology if you can't get to your classes b/c you're stuck in I66 traffic (unless your plan was to lecture from your cell phone via VoIP in one of our electronic classrooms.) Here's a blog with "secret" driving directions for getting between Prince William Fairfax campuses: http://i66.blogspot.com/

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If you are interested in social networking or the different kinds of social software that are cropping up everywhere to enable social interactions, take a look at GMU's instance of "thefacebook": http://gmu.thefacebook.com/ Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities. The GMU facebook accounts are limited to GMU faculty, staff,

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This was a very informative forum put on by Center for History of New Media. A complete list of the digital tools presented can be viewed at the following URL: http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Fall_Forum_2004 The ECHO (Exploring & Collecting History Online) website is intended to serve as a clearinghouse, collection, and community of discourse for all manner of open source

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http://www.irc.gmu.edu/highlights/index.html Leslie Smith spoke about NCC expreiences with movng from print to online portfolios for their students. She spoke positively about the ways web-based (hypermedia) portfolios can provide a richer assessment of student learning across categories like critical thnking, ethics/values, info technology and others. Darren Cambridge discussed his

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WebCT Announces Real-Time Delivery of MERLOT Learning Objects "TheWebCT PowerLink for MERLOT, released today, supports continuous delivery of up-to-the-minute learning object links directly to WebCT courses... The links point to RSS feeds from MERLOT of learning objects such as animations, simulations, case studies and tutorials in 15 subject areas from biology to world languages."

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Innovate - October/November 2004 Volume 1, Issue 1 This is the inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to online learning topics that is free to use. Two articles stand out for me: The Role of Internet Technology in a Large Lecture Course and one by a former GMU professor from GSE, Chris Dede, on the future of learning technologies.

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Homo Blogus This is a link to my (rreo) personal blog on the instructional uses of blogs. It has been more of a testing ground for me, but I am ready to get serious. I will probably broaden the focus to something related to using personal knowledge management tools of which a weblog may serve as one kind of example.

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