Archive for March, 2010

Just as you can embed videos and PowerPoint presentations in BlackBoard, you can also embed documents.  The advantage to embedding a document is much the same as embedding other files:
- it both appears and is more accessible
- it adds to the visual impact and makes your page more engaging.
Which service will host your documents?
In order [...]

1. Create the test items, use one of these methods.

one by one

importing them from a previous course

creating from a word or text document

View a video of Step 1 by clicking here
2. Deploy the test by inserting it into a content area in the course.
Use the Add Test icon.
View a video of Step2 by [...]

You can convert Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False, Essay, Fill in the blank, and Matching questions from a document into BlackBoard test items thanks to a Quiz generator program available online from the College of Southern Idaho.

Instructions
1. Get questions into the proper format
Open a document that contains questions or go to Word or Notepad and [...]

I’ve put up a Diigo list of some helpful links to introduce educators to the use of social media in the classroom:
http://www.diigo.com/list/Jdarrow/social-media/

I was invited to talk with the class of 2010 MAT students at the Marlboro College Graduate School last night and I have to say that the work this group is involved with is pretty amazing. Caleb Clark, the MAT program director, is steering the cohort in the right direction. Okay, I realize that’s a purely [...]

This seemed very relevant to thinking about the idea of the Keene State Learning and Teaching Commons as we go forward. Quoted at length from a much longer article, but the whole article is well worth reading.
George doesn’t provide easy answers here about content, and I’m finding as I think through the KLTC I [...]

This is not new, but I’ve found that a number people haven’t seen it, so I’m posting it here. It is an outline of what we are aiming for in the the ISP, and a nice introduction to those wondering what the program is about.

You can use Google Scholar or Elsevier’s Scirus to do a quick scan of scholarly, web available literature. While these tools are not as comprehensive as library databases, they provide quick access to hundreds of millions of articles, which should be enough to get one started on a research project.
Each engine has its own [...]

Diigo
Diigo
What’s this crazy thing called Diigo after all, and what does it have to do with the social web? Let’s back up for just a moment before we talk about too much web stuff. Bookmarks are a method of dog-earing the things you find on the web. Many of us have used “Favorites” when we search [...]

This is designed primarily for K-12, but it is not essentially different from what one might use for a college course.  It provides a method to map out how students will be assessed, and what phase, and has a helpful list of types of assessment typical to PBL.
It’s pretty lightweight, the sort of thing that [...]