Month: May 2013
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Have you tried a “week zero” in your D2L course?
When teaching an online or web-enhanced course, how do you make essential course information stand out from all the rest of the course content? The first week in an online environment can be overwhelming. In addition to encountering Desire2Learn, students are provided with a course tour that reviews the syllabus, explains how to participate in…
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Social Media – Part 2 (Digital Footprint: Professionalism Online)
The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning held the second session in the Learning Series in May entitled: Social Media – Part 2 (Digital Footprint: Professionalism Online) Topics included: i. Social Media’s footprint – lasting comments, images and words ii. Protecting your image and footprint, how to manage it for professionalism iii. Student/Family use…
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Bill Gates on giving Instructors Real Feedback
In this TED Talk Microsoft founder Bill Gates proposes a method for getting teachers real feedback on their practice. A recent initiative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the Measures Of Effective Teaching Project which aims to close the gap between institutional expectations for effective teaching and what is actually happening within classrooms. The initiative seeks to identify…