Publications
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Faculty Focus
Faculty Focus publishes a free e-newsletter three times per week and has its own dedicated website featuring additional news and best practices on the academic issues at the forefront of higher education today.
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EDUCAUSE Quarterly
EDUCAUSE Quarterly (ISSN 1528-5324) is an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal from EDUCAUSE about managing and using information resources in higher education. EQ is published in an online-only format with multimedia and community-building applications that enhance the magazine’s value.
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Blogs
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The eLearning Coach
The eLearning Coach shares actionable strategies, practical content, personal reviews and resources to help you design, develop and understand online learning.
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Instructional Design & Development at DePaul University
The blog’s primary goal is to provide information on enhancing instruction through the use of technology.
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Web Tools
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Wordle
Wordle is a free 'word art' tool that crunches any chunk of text in the production of a visual representation of the content. Some Classroom suses are:
- Paste contents of an online discussion and post in your class
- Classroom Polls: Instead of your traditional bar graph or pictograph, try using Wordle to organize your data. Have all students take turns at entering their answer in to Wordle and generate the resulting cloud. Bigger words = more popular answers.
- Reflection of an event or presentation
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Jing
Jing is a great tool for "on-the-fly" or and/or simple screencasts and snapshots. Instructors have found it helpful to walk through assignments with a specific software or for short personal messages.
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MindMeister
An online mind mapping tool. This tool will allow you to embed the maps in your online course, share the maps to collaborate with students or print them for use as handouts. You may want to use this tool:
- to generate ideas (eg brainstorming)
- to design a complex structure (eg complicated texts, large web sites)
- to communicate complex ideas
- to aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge
- to provide a framework for making internal knowledge explicit in a visual form that can easily be examined and shared
- to assess understanding or diagnose misunderstanding.
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Audio
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Audacity (Audacity Tutorial)
Audio in the online classroom can do do the following:
- provide a teaching/learning style choice,
- minimize the sense of distance students and faculty often feel in a course,
- humanize your course,
- make your online classroom more portable and accessible.
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File Management
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Zamzar
An amazing website which allows you to convert files without downloading any software.
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