Taking the Constructivist Path to Teaching Writing

As Pam, noted in the previous blog post we have a new course that focuses on the teaching of writing. Writing Across the Curriculum Online ® (WAC) features an in depth look at implementation and practice of the “Writing Workshop,” also known as “Writers’ Workshop.” Students of this course will have the opportunity to [...]

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Using wikis to teach writing

Since wikis have hit the scene they have been used as repositories of information. Business organizations use wikis to record knowledge about their processes and culture. Fans use wikis to build profiles of their favorite television or film characters. Wikipedia holds a wealth of knowledge on many topics and ideas. It seems that wikis can [...]

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LMS Investigation

It was over a year ago—October 2007, to be exact—when we started seriously investigating options to replace Blackboard as our LMS.  Although there are dozens of Learning Management Systems out there, our investigation focused on 4 systems. We examined a number of features. The list below isn’t complete (the full list has over 25 features), [...]

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Educating the Net Generation

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In the month of May we reviewed new and upcoming online courses. We also shared the process of online course development from concept to actualization.  The last course up for review is Educating the Net Generation Online ™.
Educating the Net Generation (ENG) helps educators gain some [...]

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Active Participation for TCC 2008

Our team’s presentation on Web 2.0 Solutions for Course Development Communication Challenges for the TCC 2008 conference went extremely well, if I do say so myself. Don’t take my word for it though–here’s some of the comments from the participants:

“Thanks for a great seminar!”
“Very interesting and informative presentation. Thank you.”
“Thank you all for the [...]

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Presenting Collaboration

Technology, Colleges, and Community (TCC) is a great opportunity to learn from and share with our colleagues from around the world. This year, we have the great privilege of presenting at this conference.
Because the theme of this year’s conference is The New Internet: Collaboration, Convergence, Creativity, Contrast, and Challenges, we felt that our own experiences [...]

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Learning Community in BCE

Building Collaborative Online Environments uses a number of techniques to build a learning community. After the field test last summer, instructor Lee Anne Morris had great ideas for really pushing the community-building to the next level.
Wikis
One piece of student feedback we received during the field test was that people wanted to see everyone else’s lesson [...]

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Instructional Design with Community in Mind

What do you do in your spare time? Quilt? Fish? Read? We all have hobbies that we enjoy. However, to knit, fish, or read, we had to learn how to do it first.
Did your grandmother teach you to quilt? Maybe your father took you to the lake and taught you how to put the worm [...]

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Using Wikis with Net Generation Students

As we have seen in previous posts, the Net Generation students use the Internet and many online tools as a learning aid, and they are collaborative learners. Another online collaboration tool that can be used with Net Generation Students is a wiki. Christy shared a link with us to the Flat Classroom Project wiki, [...]

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Learning by Creating and Collaborating—Digitally

The video A Vision of K-12 Students Today shows net generation learners sharing a message about how their preferred digital learning style doesn’t always match up with how they are taught.
My favorite quote from the video is “If we learn by doing, what are we learning sitting here?”

The video’s message is [...]

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