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WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom

What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform. Mark www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment… Continue

Added by Mark Cruthers on June 28, 2008 at 6:54am — No Comments

Scenario Based Learning - SBL Interactive

A tool to assist with the creation and deployment of scenario based learning - made by a research unit within Queensland University of Technology: SBLInteractive Continue

Added by Aneesha on February 21, 2008 at 9:04pm — No Comments

Changing roles of educators and designers

Great post and paper by George Siemans entitled "Learning and Knowing in Networks: Changing roles for Educators and Designers".
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Added by Aneesha on February 9, 2008 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Capture Images and Videos with Jing

Jing is a screen and video capture tool - free until the projects is out of beta. It serves as a simple but easy to use alternative to tools like Captivate. It runs on both Mac and Windows.
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Added by Aneesha on January 31, 2008 at 7:49pm — No Comments

Encouraging Role Based Learning Environments (Project EnRoLE)

About the project: http://www.cedir.uow.edu.au/enrole/why.html

Role play Repository: http://www.cedir.uow.edu.au/enrole/rp_repository.html

Papers from the ASCILITE conference: http://enrole.blogspot.com/2007/12/enrole-network-members-at-ascilite.html
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Added by Aneesha on January 19, 2008 at 7:06pm — No Comments

"The Achievement Gap" and real impacts

This week I'm writing a series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on my social desktop. This is the third part of the series which takes concepts introduced by "'The Achievement Gap' and culture", and distinguishes between established methods for addressing the problem and making real changes. In my last article I promised to go more into technology, but it seems that the problem I'm addressing needs more distinction at this time.

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Added by Jared on August 10, 2007 at 1:40pm — No Comments

"The Achievement Gap" and culture

This week I'm writing a series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on my social desktop. This is the second part of the series which takes concepts introduced by "The Achievement Gap" and puts them into a larger cultural context.

Administrators and educators in the United States are faced with balancing federal mandates like the "No Child Left Behind Act" and state concerns like closing "The Ac… Continue

Added by Jared on August 5, 2007 at 9:44am — No Comments

The Achievement Gap

This week I'm writing a series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on my social desktop. This is the first part of the series which introduces the concept of "The Achievement Gap" and some methods high level administrators are using to combat the problem.

"The Achievement Gap" is a theory that observes educational performance of children in the United States in public K-12 schools. The foundati… Continue

Added by Jared on August 4, 2007 at 12:02pm — No Comments

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There does seem to be some evidence that shows US schools are starting to lose competitive edge internationally.

"A swiftly rising number of American workers at every skill level are in direct competition with workers in every corner of the globe. While our international counterparts are increasingly getting more education, their young people are getting a better education as well. American students and young adults place anywhere from the middle to the bottom of the pack in all three… Continue

Added by Jared on August 2, 2007 at 8:41am — No Comments

834 Tips for successful Online Instruction

Now this is quite a comprehensive guide for teachers looking to improve on ways to ensure successful online instruction. It's got valuable tips (and quite a lot I might add) on achieving successful online instruction. To download this quick reference (tips) guide, click on the following link:

http://www.elearninggu

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Added by Azim Ahmed on July 12, 2007 at 4:08pm — 1 Comment

A blended conversation video

Please check out (click link below) real life experience (and examples) of how a blended learning environment helped address specific student's needs (in this case, students with disabilities communicating through an online medium). Reinforces our belief in creating blended learning 'environments' as opposed to just focussing on developing blended learning 'courses'.

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Added by Azim Ahmed on July 11, 2007 at 6:06pm — No Comments

Converting files for free...

I am working on a project for my coursework in Instructional Design at UCLA (offered externally ofcourse!) and I have been researching some tools (software in particular) available that can convert various applications to other formats. With a lot of research, I found a site that many of you (teacher's are you listening...?) might be interested in looking at. It is free and will convert your word documents to PDFs, convert Flash to Windows Media and more...

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Added by Azim Ahmed on July 9, 2007 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Teachers' TV

Hi Azim, Great idea for a network - hope you get a lot of interest here.

I've just discovered Teachers' TV - it's huge. Something for everyone in education and training.
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Added by Simon Brown on July 8, 2007 at 7:05pm — 1 Comment