Instructions:
My advice is to left click on an index item below and then scroll through the bookmarks.
If you choose one of the bookmarks, I suggest that you right
click on the bookmark link and then choose "Open in a New Window."
This will enable you to keep the Index and other bookmarks open in one window while you
visit a web site in another window.
Some sections of this document
are updated more frequently than other sections. The most current sections
are the "Free Tutorials."
Index
(Scroll down to view categories and bookmarks)
Daily News Sites for Accountancy, Tax, Fraud,
IFRS, XBRL, Accounting History, and More ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Asynchronous Learning Issues |
MUD,
MOO, MUSH Learning In Student-Created Settings
Software
for Online Examinations
Social Networking for Education: The
Beautiful and the Ugly
(including Google's Wave and Orcut for Social Networking and some education
uses of Twitter)
Updates will be at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Open Courseware (free video and other course materials from major
universities)
The Taxonomy Warehouse is a
fantastic search engine in terms of helpful categories --- http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/
World Clock and World Facts ---
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing of courseware
are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Chronicle of Higher Education's
2008-2009 Almanac ---
http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/2008/?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on economic and social statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics
Daily News Sites for Accountancy, Tax, Fraud,
IFRS, XBRL, Accounting History, and More ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Education Tutorials
Free Images from the U.S. Government ---
http://rastervector.com/resources/free/free.html
Free Federal Resources in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.free.ed.gov/
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Technology is changing the way students learn.
Is it changing the way colleges teach?
Not enough, says George Siemens, associate
director of research and development at the University of Manitoba’s
Learning Technologies Centre.
While colleges and universities have been
“fairly aggressive” in adapting their curricula to the changing world,
Mr. Siemens told The Chronicle, “What we haven’t done very well
in the last few decades is altering our pedagogy.”
To help get colleges thinking about how they
might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and
process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the
center, have created a Web-based guide, called the
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning.
Taking their own advice, they have outfitted
the handbook with a wiki function that will allow readers to contribute
their own additions.
In the its introduction, the handbook declares
the old pedagogical model—where the students draw their information
primarily from textbooks, newspapers, and their professors—dead. “Our
learning and information acquisition is a mash-up,” the authors write.
“We take pieces, add pieces, dialogue, reframe, rethink, connect, and
ultimately, we end up with some type of pattern that symbolizes what’s
happening ‘out there’ and what it means to us.” Students are forced to
develop new ways of making sense of this flood of information fragments.
But Mr. Siemens said that colleges had been
slow to appreciate this fact. “I don’t see a lot of research coming out
on what universities might look like in the future,” he said. “If how we
interact with information and with each other fundamentally changes, it
would suggest that the institution also needs to change.”
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning ---
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning
Preface
This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been
designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate
technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Introduction
How is education to fulfill its societal role of clarifying confusion
when tools of control over information creation and dissemination rest
in the hands of learners[3], contributing to the growing complexity and
confusion of information abundance?
Change Pressures and Trends
Global, political, social, technological, and educational change
pressures are disrupting the traditional role (and possibly design) of
universities. Higher education faces a "re-balancing" in response to
growing points of tension along the following fault lines...
What we know about learning
Over the last century, educator’s understanding of the process and
act of learning has advanced considerably.
Technology, Teaching, and Learning
Technology is concerned with "designing aids and tools to perfect the
mind". As a means of extending the sometimes limited reach of humanity,
technology has been prominent in communication and learning. Technology
has also played a role in classrooms through the use of movies, recorded
video lectures, and overhead projectors. Emerging technology use is
growing in communication and in creating, sharing, and interacting
around content.
Media and technology
A transition from epistemology (knowledge) to ontology (being)
suggests media and technology need to be employed to serve in the
development of learners capable of participating in complex
environments.
Change cycles and future patterns
It is not uncommon for theorists and thinkers to declare some
variation of the theme "change is the only constant". Surprisingly, in
an era where change is prominent, change itself has not been developed
as a field of study. Why do systems change? Why do entire societies move
from one governing philosophy to another? How does change occur within
universities?
New Learners? New Educators? New Skills?
New literacies (based on abundance of information and the significant
changes brought about technology) are needed. Rather than conceiving
literacy as a singular concept, a multi-literacy view is warranted.
Tools
Each tool possesses multiple affordances. Blogs, for example, can be
used for personal reflection and interaction. Wikis are well suited for
collaborative work and brainstorming. Social networks tools are
effective for the formation of learning and social networks. Matching
affordances of a particular tool with learning activities is an
important design and teaching activity
Research
Evaluating the effectiveness of technology use in teaching and
learning brings to mind Albert Einstein’s statement: "Not everything
that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted". When we begin to consider the impact and effectiveness of
technology in the teaching and learning process, obvious questions
arise: "How do we measure effectiveness? Is it time spent in a
classroom? Is it a function of test scores? Is it about learning? Or
understanding?"
Conclusion
Through a process of active experimentation, the academy’s role in
society will emerge as a prominent sensemaking and knowledge expansion
institution, reflecting of the needs of learners and society while
maintaining its role as a transformative agent in pursuit of humanity’s
highest ideals.
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Acceptance Speech for the August 15, 2002 American
Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator Award --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/AAAaward_files/AAAaward02.htm
Bob Jensen's Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions
of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The Master List of Free
Online College Courses ---
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/
FREE access to ANNUAL REPORTS in XBRL ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm#TimelineXBRL
From EDGAR Online ---
http://www.tryxbrl.org/
History of XBRL ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm
Bob Jensen's helpers for
writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's updates on education
technologies, assessment, and learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Bob Jensen's "Search
Engine Helpers" at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
The best place to find training and education programs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#EducationOrganizations
Bob Jensen's main bookmarks
page is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm
Bob Jensen's helpers for
writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's overview of
electronic books and custom publishing --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm
Bob Jensen's threads are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Selected additions to New
Bookmarks (with commentaries) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bob Jensen's Advice for New
Faculty is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm
You can download
(for free) hours of MP3 audio and the PowerPoint presentation slides from
several of the best education technology workshops that I ever organized. --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/002cpe/02start.htm
OKI and OCW:
Free sharing of courseware from MIT, Stanford, and other colleges and
universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Networking for Education: The Beautiful and the Ugly
(including Google's Wave and Orcut for Social Networking and some education
uses of Twitter)
Updates will be at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads on Knowledge Portals
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/portals.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads on Speech
Recognition and Conversations With Computers
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/speech.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on foreign language translation are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#ForeignLanguage
Click here for commercialization corruption of higher education
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book05q3.htm#EducationCommercialization
Click here for business school ranking controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book05q3.htm#BusinessSchoolRankings
Bob Jensen's Other Threads http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Chronicle of Higher Education's
2008-2009 Almanac ---
http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/2008/?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on economic and social statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics
Privatization,
Commercialization, Media Rankings, and Other Problems of Higher Education,
Including Selling Out Education Quality to Athletic Spectaculars ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
University Channel (video and audio) ---
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/
MIT's Video Lecture Search
Engine: Watch the video at ---
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one
of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy
academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and
direct the user to them. Announced last month, the MIT
Lecture Browser website gives the general public
detailed access to more than 200 lectures publicly available though the
university's
OpenCourseWare initiative. The search engine
leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other
institutions to
convert
audio
into text and make it searchable.
Kate Greene, MIT's Technology Review, November 26, 2007 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/?nlid=686&a=f
Once again, the Lecture Browser link (with video) is at
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm
Media College (New Zealand: Tutorials on Production of
Multi-media) ---
http://www.mediacollege.com/
Internet Archive: Cornell University
Libraries
http://www.archive.org/details/cornell
Find free video lectures from free
universities at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
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Bob Jensen's essay on the bailout's aftermath and an alphabet soup of
appendices can be found at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm
From the University of Michigan
National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife ---
http://www.academicworklife.org/
Today, college and university faculty members
face many challenges, including an increasingly diverse workforce and
new models for career flexibility. The National Clearinghouse on
Academic Worklife (NCAW) provides resources to help faculty, graduate
students, administrators and higher education researchers understand
more about all aspects of modern academic work and related career
issues, including tenure track and non tenure track appointments,
benefits, climate and satisfaction, work/life balance, and policy
development.
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World: OKI, MIT, Rice,
Berkeley, Yale, and Other Sharing Universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
MIT OpenCourseWare: Major European Novels ---
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-472Fall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm
I Know Poe
http://www.iknowpoe.com/
Free Textbooks and Cases ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Mathematics and Statistics Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
Free Science and Medicine Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science
Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
Free Education Discipline Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Teaching Materials (especially
video) from PBS
Teacher Source: Arts and
Literature ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm
Teacher Source: Health &
Fitness ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm
Teacher Source: Math ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
Teacher Source: Science ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm
Teacher Source: PreK2 ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm
Teacher Source: Library Media
---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm
Free Education and
Research Videos from Harvard University ---
http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp
VYOM eBooks Directory
---
http://www.vyomebooks.com/
From Princeton Online
The Incredible Art Department ---
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/
Online Mathematics Textbooks ---
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives ---
http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp
MIT's Video Lecture Search Engine:
Watch the video at ---
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one
of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy
academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and
direct the user to them. Announced last month, the MIT
Lecture Browser website gives the general public
detailed access to more than 200 lectures publicly available though the
university's
OpenCourseWare initiative. The search engine
leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other
institutions to
convert
audio
into text and make it searchable.
Kate Greene, MIT's Technology Review, November 26, 2007 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/?nlid=686&a=f
Once again, the Lecture Browser link (with video) is at
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm
Find free video lectures from free
universities at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Bob Jensen's Archives of New Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookurl.htm
Bob Jensen's Tidbits Blog ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Bob Jensen's Updates on Fraud ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Links to Documents on Fraud ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
Bob Jensen's Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free electronic literature, including free online
textbooks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free online video, music, and other audio ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Bob Jensen's documents on accounting theory are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free course materials from major universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Bob Jensen's links to online education and training alternatives around
the world ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
Bob Jensen's links to electronic business, including computing and
networking security, are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm
Bob Jensen's links to education technology and controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Bob Jensen's home page ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/
International Society for Technology in Education --- http://www.iste.org/
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ISTE
is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide
membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational
technology. We are dedicated to providing leadership and service
to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of
technology in K–12 education and teacher education. We provide
our members with information, networking opportunities, and
guidance as they face the challenge of incorporating computers,
the Internet, and other new technologies into their schools.
Home
of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the
Center for Applied Research in Education Technology (CARET), and
the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE meets
its mission through knowledge generation, professional
development, and advocacy. ISTE also represents and informs its
membership regarding educational issues of national scope through
ISTE–DC. We support a worldwide network of Affiliates and
Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and we offer our members the
latest information through our periodicals and journals.
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|
An
organization of great diversity, ISTE leads through presenting innovative
educational technology books and programs; conducting professional
development workshops, forums, and symposia; and researching, evaluating,
and disseminating findings regarding educational technology on an
international level. ISTE’s Web site, www.iste.org,
contains coverage of many topics relevant to the educational technology
community.
Bookstore. L&L. NECC, NETS. About ISTE, Educator Resources, Join!,
Membership, Affiliates
ISTE 100, SIGs, Professional Development, Publications, Research
Projects, Standards Projects, Site Map
Over 30,000 Free Academic Literature
and Multimedia Items from EServer (including some "Bad Subjects") --- http://eserver.org
Internet History
NSF and the Birth of the Internet (video) ---
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/
How Internet Stuff Works ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Web
Personal Computer History
"Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer --- The PC's
back story involves a little-known Texas connection," by Lamont Wood,
Computer World, August 8, 2008 ---
Click Here
The EServer, founded
in 1990, is now based at Iowa State University. We are increasing efforts to
publish new works (31846 so far).
| The
Academy |
miscellaneous resources
for students and faculty |
| Art/Architecture |
links to art,
architecture, and aesthetic theory |
| Audio
and Video |
audio recordings of
scholarly presentations |
| Bad
Subjects |
political education for
everyday life |
| Books |
book-length nonfiction and
miscellaneous literatures |
| Calls
for Papers |
calls for conference
papers and journal articles |
| Cultronix |
a journal of contemporary
art and cultural theory |
| Cultural
Logic |
an electronic journal of
marxist theory and practice |
| Cultural
Theory |
readings in cultural
studies and critical theory |
| Cyber
Tech/Culture |
discussing links between
technology and culture |
| Drama |
a collection of plays,
modern works and classics |
| Early
Modern Culture |
works and discussions in
Renaissance studies |
| Education |
resources for both
students and teachers |
| Eighteenth
Century |
a site for
eighteenth-century cultural history |
| Electronic
Labyrinth |
a study of the
implications of hypertext for writers |
| Feminism |
select resources in
feminism and women's studies |
| Fiction |
novels and short fiction,
classics and new works |
| Film
& Television |
works in film, television
and other media studies
Film Literature Index ---
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/index.jsp |
| Gender/Sexuality |
some resources on gender,
sex and sexuality |
| Government |
materials in government,
law, and their social implications
"The Library of Congress Online for Educators,"
by Leni Donlan, Technology & Learning, March 2004, Page 20
--- http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17701379 |
| History |
works and links in history
and historiography |
| Home
Pages |
the personal home pages of
EServer members |
| Internet |
resources about the
internet: guides, essays and articles |
| Journals |
links to academic journals
and popular magazines |
| Languages |
resources in language
studies and theory |
| Libraries |
links to worldwide library
catalogues |
| Literary
Events |
events for any date from
literature and the arts |
| The
Mamet Review |
the journal of the David
Mamet Society |
| Marx
& Engels |
a collection of writings
in economic and social theory |
| Multimedia |
a small collection of
artwork, audio, graphics and video |
| Music |
a vast collection of works
in music and music theory |
| Philosophy |
writings by modern and
classical philosophers |
| Pittsburgh |
information about the city
and its neighborhoods |
| Poetry |
original and classic
verse, literary and poetic theory |
| Race |
materials on race and
ethnicity in the U.S. |
| Recipes |
vegetarian recipes, and
links to good related sites |
| Reference |
select reference materials
useful for research |
| Rhetoric |
scholarly and pedagogical
resources for rhetoricians |
| Software |
freeware and shareware for
your computer |
| Sparks |
a publisher of fiction,
poetry, music, art and spoken word |
| Sudden |
original poetry that
reflects imagination and intelligence |
| Tech
Comm Library |
a web portal for tech, sci
and professional communication |
| Thoreau
Reader |
the works of American
philosopher Henry D. Thoreau |
| Web
Design |
a site for discussion of
new media design |
| Zine375 |
Accreditation Issues are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245prest.htm#Accreditation
British Columbia's History of
Education Web site http://www.mala.bc.ca/homeroom/
Academic careers
--- http://www.academiccareers.com/
Science Careers ---
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
April 14, 2003 message from Seamus Fitzroy
[englishjobmaze@mail.com]
Dear Bob,
I would like to
submit for your consideration an ESL/EFL job & info site for possible
inclusion in the 'Program Search' (or other relevant) section of your
informative area of the Trinity website.
The English Job
Maze (http://www.englishjobmaze.com)
is an
International
ESL/EFL job & information site for ESL/EFL teachers and schools around
the world. But it is also much more than 'just another' ESL/EFL job site.
It contains a wealth of free TESL industy-related info for teachers,
including one of the largest ELT bookstores on the Internet, plus
'Countries @ a Glance' - the most comprehensive TESL guide to pay, taxes,
visas, travel, etc, in 50 of the world's most popular teaching
destinations.
I hope you find
this site useful. Hundreds of ESL/EFL teachers, schools and
university/college graduates around the world have told us they do.
Thanks in advance
for your time.
Warm regards
Seamus
Fitzroy
English Job Maze
info@englishjobmaze.com
GMAT & TOEFL PREP
BusinessWeek Online has developed an area that focuses on the ins and outs
of these exams. You'll find expert advice, sample questions, and more http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/gmat/
Kaplan
Test Prep --- http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=dLA8uJFSIfQ&offerid=26836.10000744&type=3&subid=0
Get higher scores on those
important tests by taking Kaplan courses for AP, SAT, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT,
MCAT, PCAT, OAT, DAT, NBDE, NCLEX, CGFNS, USMLE, CSE, COMLEX, CME, and
others.
Study or Teach
or Volunteer Abroad
OKI (Open Knowledge Initiative started
by MIT) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Also see the
| News,
Magazines, and Publishing Firms | Technology Section |
Software at huge educator discounts www.edu-software.com
or call us 800-679-7007
You can download
(for free) hours of MP3 audio and the PowerPoint presentation slides from
several of the best education technology workshops that I ever organized.
--- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/002cpe/02start.htm
A Great
Summary of Web Instruction Resources
Sharon
Gray, Instructional Technologist ---
http://inst.augie.edu/%7Egray/
Augustana College, 2001 Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD
57197
gray@inst.augie.edu,
605-274-4907
Faculty Pay and Benefits Database from the Chronicle of Higher Education
(Salaries) --- http://chronicle.com/stats/990/2001/
For GREAT comprehensive listing of
Web Instruction Resources, go to http://inst.augie.edu/~gray/WBI.html
From The Scout Report on January 18, 2002
A+ Country Reports http://www.countryreports.org/
A fantastic resource for students, teachers,
tourists, and anyone else interested in the globe, A+ Country Reports
offers a wealth of information on all of the countries of the world. Like
the CIA's World Factbook (last mentioned in the September 28, 2001 _Scout
Report_ ), A+ Country Reports presents up-to-date information on
population, geography, economy, history, and politics. Aside from that,
however, the site presents a lively array of extras that don't figure in
the CIA's matter of fact dossiers, things such as audio clips of national
anthems and links to current weather reports. As the site itself boasts,
through a list of quotes from current reviews, A+ Country Reports is
particularly appealing to teachers and younger students, and it's obvious
why it's appealing, given its attention to the kinds of details kids
demand -- bright graphics, large fonts, and Flash-automated features among
them. For those interested in sharing what they have learned or already
know, there is also a discussion area and links to sites for further
study.
FindTutorials http://www.findtutorials.com/
FindTutorials offers hundreds of tutorials and
professional online IT and Softskills training courses that are available
for a variety of disciplines and skill levels. In addition, it offers an
online e-mail system, an IT job database with thousands of daily updated
positions, and a host of additional resources on internet training skills.
With simple to use navigational tools and a "sophisticated in-house
developed site search", finding information to meet your requirements
merely takes the click of a button.
Related Sites of Possible Interest
See the history of course authoring
technologies at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/290wp/290wp.htm
Advice to New Faculty and Bob
Jensen's Resource Summary can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm
Bob Jensen's Helpers for Educators
at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/default1.htm
Bob Jensen's Educator Helper
Bookmarks at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm
From Infobits on September 30, 2002
RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that
have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found
particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and
websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu
for possible inclusion in this column.
Two free, electronic newsletters devoted to
distance learning issues came to my attention recently:
DESIEN [Distance Education Systemwide Interactive
Electronic
Newsletter]
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lehman@ics.uwex.edu> edits DESIEN. The newsletter is published monthly by
the University of Wisconsin-Extension <
http://www1.uwex.edu/>.
Each issue offers original articles which emphasize distance education
themes. News, updates, conference information, and contributions by
subscribers are also regularly included. Subscription information is
included on the DESIEN homepage.
[Note: the August 2002 issue includes the article,
"Electronic Content Accessible for Distance Learners with
Disabilities," by the CIT Infobits editor. The article is available at
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien/2002/0208/focus.htm]
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Glenn_Millar@bcit.ca> co-edits SideBars. The newsletter is published by
the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology
to provide "useful information and news items for instructors, course
developers, educational technologists and anyone else who has an interest in
distributed learning in its various manifestations." Subscription
information:
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html
From C-SPAM
Booknotes (with audio and video) http://www.booknotes.org
Booknotes,
C-SPAN's signature author interview program, has served as a forum for
books about history, politics and public affairs for a dozen years. C-SPAN's
unedited, commercial-free format, allows for an in-depth discussion with
an author distinct from other author interview programs.
The format is simple: one author, one book, one
hour. For a full hour every Sunday night, fifty-two weeks a year, an
author discusses their recently-released work of non-fiction. Beyond the
book's subject matter, authors are also queried about the writing process,
about how and why they came to write their book and their own lives and
influences. Authors may appear on Booknotes only once in their writing
career.
The host of the program since its inception is
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb. With over 630 author interviews since 1989
consisting of heads of state, war correspondents, biographers, scholars,
generals and peacemakers, Lamb's Booknotes provides a variety of
perspectives for its viewers. Guests have included Colin Powell, Richard
Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Neil Sheehan, Martin Gilbert, Jean Strouse, Betty
Friedan, and Henry Louis Gates.
Mr. Lamb is also the author of three collections
of Booknotes interviews, the latest of which is Booknotes:
Stories from American History.
Writers and journalist have had this to say about
the Booknotes program:
In a USA Today article, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author David Halberstam called the program "wonderful," adding
it "connects serious writers in a highly-civilized way to serious
readers out there."
The Los Angeles Times called the program
"unique," stating "Long before Oprah discovered reading
and the mass market for books, Brian Lamb was serving up a special kind
of journalism that lets writers talk - and talk and talk - with little
or no interruption."
C-SPAN, the political network of record, was created
in 1979 by America's cable companies as a public service. C-SPAN is
currently available in 82 million households, C-SPAN2 in 65 million
households, and C-SPAN3 in nearly 4 million households nationwide. For
more information about C-SPAN, visit our web site at c-span.org.
A Great Free Service for Researchers
From the University of Maryland Libraries --- http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
The Virtual Technical Reports Center
EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the
Web
Welcome to the Virtual Technical Reports Center! The
Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable
extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.
This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints,
dissertations, theses,
and research reports of all kinds. Some metasites are listed by
subject categories, as well as by institution. This site will be updated
monthly. Please email the author, Gloria Lyles Chawla, gc9@umail.umd.edu,with
suggestions for additional links.
I am making the presentation files and the audio
files of CPE Session No. 1 available for free downloads at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/001cpe/01start.htm
The speakers are all on the leading edge of accounting and education
technology. You can find out the latest updates from the radically-different
distance education pedagogy of the new Canadian Chartered Accountancy School
of Business, the online courses from UNext and Cardean University, the
Prentice-Hall supplements for a popular basic accounting textbook, and the
world's greatest effort to develop a knowledge portal (Fathom).
Wow Multimedia
Site
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
An Award Winning Copyright Website
--- http://www.benedict.com/
Includes MP3 Audio, MPEG Video, an online service for obtaining a copyright
for your Website materials, and advice for copyrights of software.
This portal
provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for
anyone navigating the net. Launched on May Day '95, the Copyright Website
strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery. As spice is
to Dune, information is to the Web; the spice must flow. Or, if you prefer
another metaphor, take the blue pill and I'll show you just how deep the
rabbit hole goes...
Drafting a Faculty Copyright Ownership Policy http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=982
Many colleges and universities are either considering
ways to revise their existing copyright policies or drafting new policies. A
copyright policy encompasses both the use of copyrighted works owned by third
parties and the ownership of works generated by faculty, staff and students
within an institution. The purpose of an ownership policy should be to encourage
research, scholarship and the dissemination of knowledge; thus, the ownership
model the school adopts should further this purpose.
I got up earlier than Bob Jensen so you get this
email from me instead of the other Bob.
The Web site below is very interesting on several
levels.
http://www.CampusTours.com/
The site allows one to see a photo album of 800
college campuses.
From time to time I have the opportunity of going
to a campus that I have not visited before. This web site allows the
chance to "see" the campus before going.
It also shows what some schools are doing to
"show off" their institution.
The campus tours site also lists those schools
that have web cams, campus maps, videos, and VR tours. Trinity was one of
the first to have a VR tour.
Give it a quick look if you like to see what the
other guys are doing and look like.
Bob Blystone
Robert V. Blystone, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 78212
rblyston@trinity.edu 210-999-7243 FAX 210-999-7229
National Academy Press: Scientific Inquiry in Education
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082919/html/
CPE SESSION 1 - August 11, 2001
American Accounting Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Good vs. Bad Online Content for Learning: How the Pros
Design, Author, Test, and Deliver Knowledge Portals and Online Courses for
Prestigious Universities and Online Supplements for Publishing Companies
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/001cpe/01start.htm
I hope these files are helpful to all persons seeking to know what the
pros in this business undertaking at the moment.
The Coates Library has established a Reveal subscription for Trinity U. faculty only.
Faculty can set up their own accounts by following the instructions below. Please ask for
help from your liaison librarian if you encounter any problems setting up an account.
Trinity faculty should go to http://www.trinity.edu/departments/library/reveal.html
. Everyone else can go to http://uncweb.carl.org/reveal/
(A single-user fee is $25 per year)
"What's the Best Q&A Site?" by Wade Roush, MIT's Technology Review,
December 22, 2006 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17932/
Magellan Metasearch ---
http://sourceforge.net/projects/magellan2/
Question Mark (Software for Test and
Tutorial Generation and Networking)
Audiopublishing
The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Asynchronous Learning Magazine
Study Web
StudyWEB (Education, References, Links)
EDUCORP Direct Online
Microsoft in Higher
Education (Online Magazine)
NetSchool
New Chalk Vol.1, No.4
NewChalk Vol.1, No.2
Page Stage =
Directory to K12 Web Sites
Education Library
(Vanderbilt)
Palladian Fall 1998
Scout Report Acrobat
.pdf Versions
Scout Report Homepage
Question Mark (Software for Test and
Tutorial Generation and Networking)
Gartner Interactive Home
Harvard Business School Multimedia
Kids Connect
NewChalk Vol.1, No.2
NYU Center for Advanced Technology
Researchpaper.com
Saunders Interactive
General Chemistry CD-ROM
The World-Wide Web
Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)
Palladian Fall 1998
Web Course in a Box
Associated Colleges of the South (ACS)
Palladian Fall 1998
Yahoo Education
Yahoo Links
Monastic Matrix ---
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
"participation of Christian women in the religion and society of
medieval Europe."
Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates [iTunes]
http://insideislam.wisc.edu/
Denied Dignity: Systematic Discrimination and Hostility toward Saudi
Shia Citizens ---
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/03/denied-dignity-0
Patagonian Expedition Reports, 1896-1899 ---
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=Patagonia
Evolution of Life ---
http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/home.html
Genetics Selection Evolution ---
http://www.gsejournal.org/
Darwin’s evolving thoughts and private communications on the boundaries of
science and religion ---
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/index.php
Darwin 200 ---
http://www.darwin200.org/
The
Complete Work of Charles Darwin ---
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
The Genius of Charles Darwing (great video tutorial) ---
http://www.simoleonsense.com/the-genius-of-charles-darwin/
The Challenger Expedition In 1870 ---
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/expedition/challenger_1872-1876/challenger.html
Wyville Thomson, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh
University, persuaded the Royal Society of London to ask the British
Government to furnish one of Her Majesty's ships for a prolonged
voyage of exploration across the oceans of the globe. On 7 December
1872, the expedition put to sea from Sheerness aboard the corvette
H.M.S. Challenger.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum [Quick Time] ---
http://www.lcmm.org/index.htm
Suggestions for Forming and Maintaining an Educational
Technology Support Facility
Many universities do not have adequate support facilities for training faculty in new
technologies and technical support teams for course adaptations to new technologies.
George Culp from the University of Texas at Austin provides some helpful guides for
"Establishing a Center for Instructional Technologies" as reported in in pp.
34-36 in the June 1999 edition of Syllabus (the online version is not yet online, but it
will soon be posted to http://www.syllabus.com/
). The article also discusses innovative ways of funding such a center.
Suggestions for Security
Many educators would like to put more materials on
the web, but they are concerned about protecting access to all or parts of
documents. For example, a professor may want to share a case with the world but
limit the accompanying case solution to selected users. Or a professor may want to
make certain lecture notes available but limit the access of certain copyrighted portions
to students in a particular course. If protecting parts of your documents is of
great interest, you may want to consider NetCloak from Maxum at http://www.maxum.com/ . You can download a free
trial version.
NetCloak Professional Edition
combines the power of Maxum's classic combo, NetCloak and NetForms, into a single CGI
application or WebSTAR API plug-in. With NetCloak Pro, you can use HTML forms on your web
site to create or update your web pages on the fly. Or you can store form data in text
files for importing into spreadsheets or databases off-line. Using NetCloak Pro, you can
easily create online discussion forums, classified ads, chat systems, self-maintaining
home pages, frequently-asked-question lists, or online order forms!
NetCloak Pro also gives your web
site access to e-mail. Users can send e-mail messages via HTML forms, and NetCloak Pro can
create or update web pages whenever an e-mail message is received by any e-mail address.
Imagine providing HTML archives of your favorite mailing lists in minutes!
NetCloak Pro allows users to
"cloak" pages individually or "cloak" individual paragraphs or text
strings. The level of security seems to be much higher than scripted passwords such
as scripted passwords in JavaScript or VBScript.
Eric Press led me to http://www.maxum.com/NetCloak/FAQ/FAQList.html
(Thank you Eric, and thanks for the "two lunches")
Richard Campbell responded as follows:
Alternatives to using Netcloak: 1.
Symantec http://www.symantec.com has a free
utility called Secret which will password-protect any type of file.
2. Winzip http://www.winzip.com has a another shareware
utility called Winzip - Self-Extractor, which has a password protect capability. The
advantage to this approach is that you can bundle different file types (.doc, xls) , zip
them and you can have them automatically install to a folder that you have named. If you
have a shareware install utility that creates a setup.exe routine, you also can have it
install automatically on the student's machine. The price of this product is about $30.
Human Security Gateway ---
http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/index.php
The Maritime Dimension of International
Security: Terrorism, Piracy, and Challenges for the United States ---
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG697.pdf
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum [Quick Time] ---
http://www.lcmm.org/index.htm
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Software for
Online Examinations and Quizzes
Hi Bob,
I recommend that
you take a look at Exam Builder 4 at http://www.exambuilder.com/
- Web-based
interface, works like Hotmail
- No
programming or html required
- Muliple
choice, Fill-in-the-blank formats, and True or False question
types
- 2 Exam
Types: Click and Learn Exams force students to answer the
answer correctly before they can continue to the next question.
Educators can optionally provide instant feedback. Certification
Exams allow student to skip questions, flag questions, review
questions answered, and change answers prior to submitting exam
- All
questions are delivered to students in random order and multiple
choice answers are scrambled to guard against cheating
- Multiple
Question pools per exams to evaluate knowledge gaps with
remediation reports available for students based on performance
- Document
Library to offer instant feedback on incorrect questions
- Ability to
upload graphics to be incorporated in questions
- Students
can easily be grouped into classes
- Detailed
reports on both student results and exam statistics. Every answer
a student clicks on is recorded in the database
- Data
archiving and storage with tape backup for compliance ready
solutions
Create a FREE
evaluation
account today and be up and running in 5 minutes with no
obligation!
My threads on assessment are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm
Hope this helps!
Bob Jensen
Bob,
I've
scheduled a health economics class in a computer lab this spring. The
PCs are configured with their CRTs tightly packed. I'd like to be able
to use the machines to give quizzes and exams, but the proximity of
the CRTs makes at least casual "peeking" almost a certainty.
Can you
suggest or point me to any software into which I could insert quiz or
exam questions that would > shuffle the order of questions on the
screen > shuffle the order of multiple choice questions >
randomize the numbers in quantitative problems > keep track of the
answers > automatically score the responses and send me a file of
grades?
Back in the
Apple II days, there was SuperPilot. But that language does not seem
to have been successful enough to be ported to the IBM PCs say nothing
about revised and improved. ??
Thanks for
whatever thoughts you might be able to share,
Bob XXXXX
Free Online Tutorials
Free online textbooks and tutorials (including video tutorials) in accounting, economics, statistics,
and other disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology tools and tricks of the
trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Especially note the section on Edutainment!
Social Networking for Education: The Beautiful and the Ugly
(including Google's Wave and Orcut for Social Networking and some education
uses of Twitter)
Updates will be at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Creative Commons
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Creative Commons Home Page ---
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Directory of Resources ---
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators
Creative Commons Free Video ---
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators
From the University of Chicago
How to Find Learning Resources from Around the World
The Fathom Archive ---
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy ---
http://www.iccdpp.org/
A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities ---
http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
BBC: Learning English ---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Ideas for Teaching Online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Ideas
Also see the helpers for teaching in general at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Link forwarded by Rick Lillie
Try VideoSurf (
http://www.videosurf.com/ ) to find videos of all types on the Internet.
PBS creates a library of digital resources for free use in schools ---
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/07/08/pbs-creates-library-of-digital-resources-targeted-to-classroom-use.aspx
The Writing Center at Harvard University ---
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/resources.html
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Education Tutorials
Free Images from the U.S. Government ---
http://rastervector.com/resources/free/free.html
Free Federal Resources in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.free.ed.gov/
Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers ---
http://www.learner.org/resources/series177.html
America [multimedia] ---
http://www.america.gov/
Intelligent YouTube: Smart Video Collections ---
http://www.openculture.com/2008/03/youtubesmartvideos.html
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ---
http://www.kauffman.org/
2009 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World
http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/webwise/090226/
From PBS: Touch Table Computing Video ---
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/231-touchtable.html
Historical Thinking Matters ---
http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/
Creative Commons Video Archive ---
http://creativecommons.org/videos/
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
United Nations World Digital Library ---
http://www.wdl.org/en/
Academic Service [iTunes]
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/academic-service/
"Why Students Don't Like Poetry," by Mark Bauerlein, Chronicle of Higher
Education's Chronicle Review, April 19, 2009 --
http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=1312&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Internet Archive: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives ---
http://www.archive.org/details/naropa
Off the Page [iTunes poetry] ---
http://poetry.eprints.org/
Education Today: The OECD Perspective ---
http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_33723_42440761_1_1_1_1,00.html
From Harvard University
Open Collections Programs: Expeditions and Discoveries ---
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/
The State University of New York Digital Repository
[pdf]
http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/
No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century ---
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf
Thinkfinity Literacy Network [iTunes video] ---
http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/tln/
"Do Parents Matter?" by Jonah Lehrer, Science Blogs, April 9, 2009
---
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/04/do_parents_matter.php
Exploratorium: Teacher Institute: Podcasts [iTunes, five-minute podcast
tips]
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/podcasts/index.php
Media College (New Zealand: Tutorials on Production of Multi-media) ---
http://www.mediacollege.com/
Internet Archive: Cornell University Libraries
http://www.archive.org/details/cornell
Art Through Time: A Global View ---
http://www.learner.org/resources/series211.html
From a Special Edition of the Scout Report via Email
on July 2, 2009
Best of 2008-2009
-
Smithsonian's History Explorer
-
Academic Earth
-
Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers
-
National Science Foundation: Discoveries
-
The Mannahatta Project
-
The Great Issues Forum [iTunes, RealPlayer]
-
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
-
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's
Natural History, 1884-1934
-
LabCAST: The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast
Video
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in
higher education.
Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study,
she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically
combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
Video: On Reinventing the Liberal Arts Education
Simoleon Sense, June 1, 2009 ---
http://www.simoleonsense.com/video-on-reinventing-the-liberal-arts-education/
Scroll down to the video screen
"The Relevance of the Humanities," by Gabriel Paquette, Inside
Higher Ed, January 22, 2009 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/01/22/paquette
Bob Jensen's threads on Compassless Colleges ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Berkowitz
Technology is changing the way students learn.
Is it changing the way colleges teach?
Not enough, says George Siemens, associate
director of research and development at the University of Manitoba’s
Learning Technologies Centre.
While colleges and universities have been
“fairly aggressive” in adapting their curricula to the changing world,
Mr. Siemens told The Chronicle, “What we haven’t done very well
in the last few decades is altering our pedagogy.”
To help get colleges thinking about how they
might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and
process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the
center, have created a Web-based guide, called the
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning.
Taking their own advice, they have outfitted
the handbook with a wiki function that will allow readers to contribute
their own additions.
In the its introduction, the handbook declares
the old pedagogical model—where the students draw their information
primarily from textbooks, newspapers, and their professors—dead. “Our
learning and information acquisition is a mash-up,” the authors write.
“We take pieces, add pieces, dialogue, reframe, rethink, connect, and
ultimately, we end up with some type of pattern that symbolizes what’s
happening ‘out there’ and what it means to us.” Students are forced to
develop new ways of making sense of this flood of information fragments.
But Mr. Siemens said that colleges had been
slow to appreciate this fact. “I don’t see a lot of research coming out
on what universities might look like in the future,” he said. “If how we
interact with information and with each other fundamentally changes, it
would suggest that the institution also needs to change.”
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning ---
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning
Preface
This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been
designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate
technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Introduction
How is education to fulfill its societal role of clarifying confusion
when tools of control over information creation and dissemination rest
in the hands of learners[3], contributing to the growing complexity and
confusion of information abundance?
Change Pressures and Trends
Global, political, social, technological, and educational change
pressures are disrupting the traditional role (and possibly design) of
universities. Higher education faces a "re-balancing" in response to
growing points of tension along the following fault lines...
What we know about learning
Over the last century, educator’s understanding of the process and
act of learning has advanced considerably.
Technology, Teaching, and Learning
Technology is concerned with "designing aids and tools to perfect the
mind". As a means of extending the sometimes limited reach of humanity,
technology has been prominent in communication and learning. Technology
has also played a role in classrooms through the use of movies, recorded
video lectures, and overhead projectors. Emerging technology use is
growing in communication and in creating, sharing, and interacting
around content.
Media and technology
A transition from epistemology (knowledge) to ontology (being)
suggests media and technology need to be employed to serve in the
development of learners capable of participating in complex
environments.
Change cycles and future patterns
It is not uncommon for theorists and thinkers to declare some
variation of the theme "change is the only constant". Surprisingly, in
an era where change is prominent, change itself has not been developed
as a field of study. Why do systems change? Why do entire societies move
from one governing philosophy to another? How does change occur within
universities?
New Learners? New Educators? New Skills?
New literacies (based on abundance of information and the significant
changes brought about technology) are needed. Rather than conceiving
literacy as a singular concept, a multi-literacy view is warranted.
Tools
Each tool possesses multiple affordances. Blogs, for example, can be
used for personal reflection and interaction. Wikis are well suited for
collaborative work and brainstorming. Social networks tools are
effective for the formation of learning and social networks. Matching
affordances of a particular tool with learning activities is an
important design and teaching activity
Research
Evaluating the effectiveness of technology use in teaching and
learning brings to mind Albert Einstein’s statement: "Not everything
that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted". When we begin to consider the impact and effectiveness of
technology in the teaching and learning process, obvious questions
arise: "How do we measure effectiveness? Is it time spent in a
classroom? Is it a function of test scores? Is it about learning? Or
understanding?"
Conclusion
Through a process of active experimentation, the academy’s role in
society will emerge as a prominent sensemaking and knowledge expansion
institution, reflecting of the needs of learners and society while
maintaining its role as a transformative agent in pursuit of humanity’s
highest ideals.
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Mutual Funds: 10 questions to test your IQ (ten answers every investor
should know by heart) ---
http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/2009/04/10/20090410biz-MutualFundsQuiz0410.html
Bob Jensen's free investment helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
Video: Interesting look at 8 common investment mistakes that uses
Big Brown (the horse, not the delivery company). ---
http://financeprofessorblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/video-on-common-mistakes.html
Last night's (October 7, 2009) PBS NewsHour took a look at the bearish
obsession du jour, the commercial real estate market. Real estate analyst
Bob White took them around to show some of the ugliest cases out there. (via
Square Feet)
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guided-tour-of-nyc-commercial-real-estate-wreckage-video-2009-10
Bob Jensen's investment helpers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
In a previous edition of Tidbits, I provided a summary of resources for
learning how and being inspired to teach online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Ideas
I forgot to (and have since added) helpers for assessment (e.g. testing)
online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnlineOffCampus
Also see the helpers for assessment in general at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm
Education Solutions for Our Future ---
http://www.solutionsforourfuture.org
AgroKnowledge: The National Center for Agriscience and Technology
Education ---
http://www.agrowknow.org/
Independent Lens: Please Vote For Me (Inside a Chinese Classroom) ---
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/pleasevoteforme/
Also I forgot to add some special considerations for detection and
prevention of online cheating ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#OnsiteVersusOnline
Also see helpers for detection and prevention of cheating in general at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm
Find a U.K. Tutor (wide range of disciplines) ---
http://www.tutorhunt.com/
Stanford Humanities Center: Events Archive ---
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/archive.htm
Digital Research Tools ---
http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/
Public.Resource.Org ---
http://public.resource.org/
Hulu TV and Movies ---
http://www.hulu.com/
From the U.S. Department of Education
Doing What Works (methods of teaching) ---
http://dww.ed.gov/
Doing What Works is a website dedicated to
assisting teachers in the implementation of effective educational
practices. The Doing What Works website contains practice guides
developed by the Department’s Institute of Education Sciences that
evaluate research on the effectiveness of teaching practices described
in the guides. The website also contains examples of possible ways this
research may be used, but not necessarily the only ways to implement
these teaching practices.
The examples provided on the Doing What Works
website – including any product names included in materials from schools
– should not be construed as an endorsement by the U.S. Department of
Education of any products, programs, or curricula.
- Early Childhood Education
- English Language Learners
- Math and Science
- Psychology of Learning
Compass Learning (not free) ---
http://www.compasslearning.com/
Journal of Issues in Collegiate
Athletics ---
http://csri-jiia.org/
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
National Science Foundation: Classroom Resources ---
http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/
Academic Earth (videos of lectures and even complete courses taught
by top scholars)
From The Scout Report on January 23, 2009
Codex Sinaiticus
[Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
The Codex Sinaiticus is certainly one
of the most important books in the world, and this delightful website
provides users with a way to view the book in its entirety. The goal of
this project is "to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and
make it accessible to a global audience for the first time." The project
partners include The British Library, the National Library of Russia,
St. Catherine's Monastery, and Leipzig University Library. First-time
visitors may wish to click on the "About" area to learn more about the
document's tremendous significance (among other things, it includes the
oldest complete copy of the New Testament) and to read answers to
several frequently asked questions about the Codex Sinaiticus. Anyone
with an interest in conservation, digitization, and transcription will
want to check out the "About the Project" page. Here they will find
information about all of these subjects, and information about
translations of the Codex. Finally, visitors will obviously want to head
on over to the "See The Manuscript" area. Here they can read a
side-by-side translation of each page, zoom in and out on the Codex, and
even browse around by passage.
'Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners," by Chris Riedel,
T.H.E. Journal, February 2009 ---
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23898_1
Gail Lovely is adamant about the nature and potential of
Web-based learning tools. "Web 2.0 is about trust," she
said at a recent talk. "It's about sharing and
collaborating." And, she insisted, it's about putting
the power to learn and create in the hands of the
students.
Technology needs to trickle up, she said, not down. We
need to give the most powerful tools to the most
vulnerable populations because they are the ones who
need it. "Young learners, non-readers," she continued,
"need high-speed access, they need animation and
graphics and sound. And that's the truth."
According to Lovely, and education
technology consultant and speaker at the FETC 2009
conference in Orlando, FL in January, it was the
recognition of those needs that led her to develop a
"top
10 list" of go-to technology
tools to help inspire young students and empower
under-funded teachers. "The important thing to remember
here," she said, "is that this isn't about simply
providing you with 10 links. It's much more important to
ask, 'What are you going to do with these things? How
are you going to use these tools?' That's why we're
here," she said. "So I can show you not only what's out
there but also how other educators are using these
resources to teach their students right now."
10.
Kerpoof
Kerpoof is a site that provides a
variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and
movie creation. Users can choose from a range of preset
characters and environmental options, or they can create
their own. The site offers drag-and-drop simplicity
coupled with advanced animation and editing capabilities
that, according to Lovely, open the platform up to a
range of curricular applications.
9.
Voki
No. 9 on the list is Voki, a text
to speech generator that, according to Lovely, has a lot
of very interesting applications. "This is more than
just something cute that can be embedded in a Web site,"
she said, referring to the animated figure being
projected on the screen. "What if the Voki was reading a
list of spelling words? What if it was speaking another
language? What if I had a Web site that had a Voki
embedded to tell my kids what was going on so that the
one's that couldn't read could hear it? What if kids
used Voki to say something important?"
The site offers a high level of
customization ranging from the overall
look of the Voki to the sound of its
voice. But, Lovely warned, "as with all
tools, there has to be a task and a
deadline." Let them play with it once,
she said, and then have them get to
work.
8.
Create-A-Graph
"This may be an
odd choice for the list," Lovely
conceded as she revealed her No. 8 pick,
"because, in some ways, it's not really
Web 2.0. It's not quite as collaborative
as some of these other tools. But if you
want to cut to the chase and teach kids
about creating graphs and reading data,
this is a great tool."
Create-A-Graph is a Web-based tool aimed
at giving students an accessible way to
learn graphing fundamentals. The tool is
easy and flexible, according to Lovely,
and allows them to learn important
concepts using their own information.
7.
Yack Pack
Coming in at No. 7
on Lovely's list was "Yack Pack," an
Internet-based voice communication tool
that works a lot like voicemail for the
Web. Users define a "pack"--a group of
individuals they want to communicate
with--and then record messages for the
group, an individual, or even a subset
within the group using a standard
computer microphone. When members of the
pack log in, they can listen and respond
to the messages.
Using Yack Pack Live--a component of
Yack Pack--users have the added ability
of broadcasting their messages in real
time using a small widget that can be
embedded in a website. Uses of the
platform, said Lovely, include
multi-class collaboration, or even
parent-teacher communications.
6.
Animoto
Animoto is an
automated presentation generator that
focuses on using images to communicate a
message. "This tool is great for class
collaboration," said Lovely, and it is
easier than using PowerPoint.
Two versions of the platform are
currently available: a paid version for
general public use and a free education
version offering unlimited use for
teachers and students.
5.
Skype
This tool,
according to Lovely, not only has the
potential to improve class participation
and collaboration, but it can also help
cut costs by providing free voice and
video calling to other Skype users
worldwide. Some uses of the platform
include multi-class and cross-district
collaboration, professional development,
and virtual field trips.
4.
Glogster
While referred to
as an "interactive poster," Glogster--Lovely's
No. 4 pick--is, in effect, a personal
Web page complete with embedded media
links, sound, and video capabilities.
Students can work with Glogster
individually or as a group to create
presentations, share information, and
interact with their peers. Lovely
stressed the importance of signing up
for the "EDU" version, which prevents
other users from viewing class-specific
"Glogs."
3.
Voicethread
Coming in at No.
3, Voicethread is audiovisual tool that
gives users the ability to upload images
or video files and then add audio or
text comments. "The power of this," said
Lovely, "is in the commenting."
2. Blogs
Nearing the top of
the list, the versatility of blogs, said
Lovely, is what makes them so valuable.
Blogs provide opportunities to reach out
to a range of community stakeholders
including administrators, other teachers
and students, parents, and the community
at large. "Blogs have the power to give
kids an authentic audience," she said.
"It gives them a voice."
1.
Wikis
Lovely rounded out her top 10 with
Wikis and Wiki platforms, citing these as the most
powerful of the Web 2.0 tools. "Wikis," she said, "are
even more versatile than blogs. You can do anything with
a Wiki," from embedding all kinds of content to
promoting collaboration to creating an entire community
all on a single platform. "In fact," she said, pointing
to her presentation slides on the giant screen behind
her, "You've been looking at a wiki this whole time
during our discussion."
Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poetry and American
history ---
http://www.shmoop.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on listservs and blogs are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Bob Jensen's threads on blogs and listservs are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Note the excellent tutorial course at
http://newmediaocw.wordpress.com/
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State
Arts Policy ---
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG640.pdf
National Endowment for the Arts: Audio & Video ---
http://www.nea.gov/av/index_v.htm
Reading Rockets (teaching children to read) ---
http://www.readingrockets.org/
Cornell University has some great videos for new students (e.g., health and
safety videos) ---
http://newstudents.cornell.edu/welcome/QuickTour.html
This Nibipedia Link was forwarded by Bill Ellis
These free videos and article are very informative on wide-ranging topics.
Nibipedia --- http://www.nibipedia.com/
Nib n: image + article attached to a video.
Nibi n: a stream of interesting nibs
Nibwit: n:someone who gets smarter using Nibipedia.
Nibstream: n: a stream of nibs inhabiting the space under Youtube
videos.
Nibipedia: n: the place where you can nibi research, learn and teach.
Add nibs if you'd, but it's fun just to watch too.
Excel Tutorial Videos
Eileen
Taylor asked me to forward her message about some Excel helper videos ---
http://www.showmeacademy.com/
Eileen Z. Taylor, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 8113, Nelson Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695-8113
919-513-2476
eileen_taylor@ncsu.edu
Show-Me Academy provides concise video tutorials that show you how to
accomplish specific tasks within common products or programming
languages. All 54 of our video tutorials start with a common theme -
Show me how to...
I also provide some home made Excel and MS Access helper tutorials at
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5342/
PQQ stands for Possible Quiz Questions (which is how I motivated students to
study these videos outside the classroom)
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Compass Learning (not free) ---
http://www.compasslearning.com/
EDUCAUSE Quarterly ---
http://connect.educause.edu/eq
Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Tools for Teaching and Learning
---
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Tools/
Tools for Teaching and
Learning
Look to our specialists
to help you use best practices in your teaching. Whether
you are new to our services, or an old friend, please
don't hesitate to contact us at
site@psu.edu with your questions.
Course Design and Planning
Teaching and Assessment
Strategies
Tools for Course Evaluation
Tools for University
Assessment
Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning
-
Bob Jensen's threads on education technology ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
Especially note the open sharing sources being used
The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a
member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of
Higher Education, April 29, 2008 ---
Click Here
At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country
will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability,
accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They
will initially review four providers of free online educational
resources:
Connexions, run by Rice University;
Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that
will begin
offering free textbooks online next year; the University of
California’s UC
College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other
courses online; and the
Community
College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded
by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for
Innovation in the Community College.
The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the
Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation.
Bob Jensen lists other free online textbooks in various disciplines,
including accounting textbooks, cases, and free online tutorials, at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic
disciplines are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
"100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites," by Mark
Sullivan, PC World via The Washington Post, October 4, 2008 ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100200090.html?wpisrc=newsletter
"7 Great Sites About Music and Literature," by Mark Sullivan,
PC World via The Washington Post, October 4, 2008 ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203242.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Free Accounting Video (YouTube)
Tutorials
May 27, 2008 message from Crosson, Susan
[susan.crosson@SFCC.EDU]
I have done both Financial and Managerial
Accounting videos for my students and posted them on YouTube. They are free
to anyone. In fact, they have been viewed by over 70,000 folks worldwide.
Here are the easy links organized by topic
and chapter:
Financial:
http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall 2007/Flip Videos Fall 2007/FA Videos.htm
Managerial:
http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall%202007/YouTube.htm
or go to YouTube.com directly and input my
account SusanCrosson or
http://www.youtube.com/SusanCrosson
If you have any other questions, glad to
answer...
Susan Crosson
Learning Resources
Wisc-Online: Online Learning Object Repository (multimedia) ---
http://www.wisc-online.com/
Law School Directory ---
http://www.aboutlawschools.org/
Other free online accounting textbooks and
tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with
pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses
from respectable universities ---
http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/
Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are
listed as well as training courses (some free).
I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education
programs at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
Teaching Materials (especially
video) from PBS
Teacher Source: Arts and
Literature ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm
Teacher Source: Health & Fitness
---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm
Teacher Source: Math ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
Teacher Source: Science ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm
Teacher Source: PreK2 ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm
Teacher Source: Library Media ---
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm
The WGBH Public Television Station (videos and other
tutorials) ---
http://openvault.wgbh.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm
A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities ---
http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
New Wiki Helps Humanities Researchers Find Online Tools
A new wiki provides a directory of online tools for
humanities scholars. The site, which uses software that lets anyone edit or add
to the material, covers more than 20 categories, including blogging tools,
specialized search engines for scholars, and software programs that can record
what is on a user's screen. The site, called D