Misc.
Media Literacy
Friday, February 25th, 2011What does the skill set of today’s learner look like?
Last year, several faculty met to have just that discussion. As a product of their meetings they created the Media Fluency Rubric, outlining four areas critical for development in today’s student.
Critical Consumption – Use appropriate technology and methods to evaluate the credibility of networked information.
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Media Fluency
Friday, February 25th, 2011What does the skill set of today’s learner look like? Last year, several faculty met to have just that discussion. As a product of their meetings they created the Media Fluency Rubric, outlining four areas critical for development in today’s … Continue reading
Your Time is Valuable: Learn How to Pick the “Right” Technology (and strategy) to Save Time
Sunday, February 13th, 2011(The following are notes from the 2/4/11 CELT Faculty Friday) Does this sound familiar to you? “I’m responding to student email all the time”, “I have 30 papers to correct this weekend and I don’t have time for anything else”, … Continue reading
Embed A Video in Any Web Page
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Most organizations and individuals that produce video appreciate the widest audience for their work. Therefore they often include some code that enables you to embed their video in another web page.
Following are directions that will work with any web page. For more specific directions for embedding videos in Blackboard see http://judybrophy.keenecommons.net/2010/03/02/embedding-videos-in-blackboard/
Get that Embed Code
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Teaching and Assessing with FlipCam Video
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011At a recent workshop several faculty shared how they were using a FlipCam, a small video recorder. Flip Cams make it easy to record and share video. Uses included, taping: Guest speakers Interviews with school principals for use in class … Continue reading
Common Google Spreadsheet Tasks
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010So you’ve jumped into Google Spreadsheets with both feet… Now what?
Creating a Form with Google Spreadsheets:
Working Logic Formula’s
Referencing Cells
Filtering Results
Protecting Sheets in your Workbook
Creating a Simple Real Time Graph
A Conversation With Wesley Martin About Teaching, Learning and Political Thought
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Wes Martin teaches political science and political thought at Keene State College. We recently talked about where his teaching inspiration and training comes from and how he teaches. “It’s embarrassing to say but most of what I do is instinctive.” … Continue reading
Why Use Google Spreadsheets?
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010There are lots of reasons that you might use Google Spreadsheets instead of Microsoft’s Excel or SPSS. As a teaser for this week’s Faculty Friday, here are a narrow set of the benefits you’ll find with Spreadsheets.
Instant Results
Careful and measured data analysis is an important part of the research process. With that in mind, it’s [...]
Richer Professional Development
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010CELT may have hit on a richer type of learning experience – students and faculty learning together – and all by accident. Here’s how it happened. Matthew Ragan was planning a workshop with Elli Caldwell on using Google Spreadsheets as … Continue reading
New Blackboard Tools: Journals, Blogs and Wikis
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Our updated Blackboard system offers some new options for engaging students: journals, blogs and wikis. Here’s a short explanations of what they are and how they can be used. Journals A journal is, of course, a private reflective piece of … Continue reading