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If your course is one in which you would like students to keep an eye on the news, you can embed a newsfeed from Google News in the Announcements of your BlackBoard course.
Directions
Go to the google News Widget page http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/newsshow/wizard.html
To put it in Blackboard:
Open your course and go to the Control Panel.
Click Announcements or another [...]
What is this, and What is it good for?!
Viddler is a web based service that hosts video content online. That’s a nerdy way of saying: “this is a place where you can share videos on the internet.” What makes Viddler unique, and in many ways pretty cool, is the ability to use your webcam to [...]
Great video shared by Tom Woodward of effective questioning style by a skilled primary school teacher. I think this might be a great resource for Education students to analyze, but I also think it’s neat for any educator to watch.
Math Questioning from Tom Woodward on Vimeo.
This one is great too:
Refining Solutions from Tom Woodward on [...]
One of the Quantitative Reasoning Outcomes for Integrated Quantitative Learning courses is that students should be able to analyze, summarize, and interpret quantitative data and effectively communicate the findings.
One way to achieve that outcome is to have students practice interpreting data. Possible assignments include:
Giving students a good graph or a poor graph and ask them [...]
Last year over 700 Keene State students worked 17,000 hours in the community. Mary McEntee, Coordinator of the Community Service office, captures all that information. Until recently students reported their hours by printing out a form from the website, completing … Continue reading
By far the easiest way to embed a You-tube video in a PowerPoint presentation is to use the ISpring Free converter.
It’s free and easy to use.
Download the converter at http://www.ispringfree.com/download.html.
ISpring Free adds a tab to your PowerPoint menus.
When you want to add a video, click on the ISpring Free menu tab.
Then click the YouTube [...]
Workflow seems to be absent from nearly every conversation about group projects I’ve ever been a part of. Helping students understand how they should work in a group is important, and here’s a template for instructors planning on using Video creation as a group project.
Make a Plan Stan
Envision what you’d like your end project to [...]