Teaching with Technology Tips

Yes, that’s right!  With a click of a link, your students can now “listen” or “view” items of their reading list in iTunes®, the dual platform and free podcatcher from Apple.
With internet activity becoming ever more pervasive, and the rapid adoption of portable mp3 playback devices, a renaissance in creative education is inevitable.  The ease [...]

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There is no arguing with the fact that formative assessment plays a significant role in enhancing student learning, by identifying and confronting misconceptions early in the learning process.  Formative assessment methods provide students frequent and immediate feedback as opposed to summative (end of semester or cumulative) assessments.  Increasingly, educational technologies, for example Student Response Systems [...]

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A bundle of new tools (called powerlinks) have found a home on our WebCT Vista servers this semester!   Which means there are new ways of adding collaborative and interactive elements to your WebCT course shell. You’ll find them listed under the More tools>> in the Build view.

Horizon Wimba’s communication bundle consisting of the following tools:
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Matching Strategies to Tools
The decision to use a course management system ( like WebCT Vista) to enhance a course is often driven by pragmatic management goals like efficient material distribution, easier student access to materials, enhanced communication, posting grades, making announcements, etc.  Other times there is a personal or curricular interest in the technology.  Either [...]

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Are you Podcasting yet?
Podcasting and Vodcasting have been identified as technologies on the verge of explosive growth over the coming 12 months as educators experiment with new media to enhance teaching and learning.  One of reasons being, that despite the name of the technology, podcast/vodcast content can be consumed by most (over 90%) of [...]

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