The video below is from a Google hangout this morning, with Terry Elliott, who I met last year when I began following the Making Learning Connected MOOC. That is repeating again this year and following a comment I posted a week ago, Terry invited me to connect this morning in a Hangout.…
Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2014 Faculty Research Grant Recipients, Part 4
We are spending several weeks spotlighting the recipients of the Spring 2014 Faculty Research Grants. Get to know these distinguished faculty members below!
Name: Joohi Lee & Leisa A. Martin
University: University of Texas at Arlington
Title: What makes online discussion more engaging?
What I’m Learning: Education at Google I/O 2014
I ran across the videos that were focused on Education at the I/O conference this year. I think the positioning of Google Play in Education and Google Apps are really interesting. What do you think about the way they are encouraging development in this realm?…
What I’m Learning: Youtube Creator Academy
I love the idea that YouTube is helping people to create things. These quick lessons are wonderful for teachers and learners of all ages. How will you use it in your classroom to build an audience for your work or the work of your learners?…
Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms
What is your passion?
You know that one topic/ idea that energizes you whenever you think about it?
For me, one of my passions is school counselling. I love my job!! I also love learning about new ways to connect with my students.…
What I’m Using: Notable PDF – A Collaborative PDF Editor
I quite like this chrome extension. It really does seem to do everything I haven’t been able to do within the PDF viewer in Google Docs.
Cloud-based PDF Viewer for your Browser view, annotate, share and collaborate
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Fine Art: Finding Images
Recently several major art museums have announced that they are making their digital collections available for download and non-commercial use. This opening up of collections gives students and anyone interested in fine art an opportunity to work with and use these images in their own projects. …
Is Your Position Public-Facing?
In this podcast I discuss the concept of a job that is public facing. In education, only a few are officially ordained as public facing, but what would happen if we all had that distinction? What would happen if we were all accountable to parents and community members and to one another?…
New and Improved Tip Sheet for Writing Effective Learning Objectives
Brought to you by the Academic Services team, check out our new and improved Writing Effective Learning Objectives Tip Sheet. Still using Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domains, we paired up each domain with action verbs, activities, assignment, and example student learning objectives.
Project Roundtable: Why do we need a Google Educator Group (GEG)?
*Don’t forget to put your info on the planning doc*: http://j.mp/gegroundtable
*Roundtable Purpose*: The purpose of this roundtable is to explore all of the possibilities for what a GEG might look like, and how teachers and leaders could become a part of one in order to improve their practice. …