At Educause Learning Initiative Conference 2009, I attended a session on “Using Discussion Rubrics to Encourage Student Participation and Learning” presented by Barbara Austin and Suzanne Pieper of Northern Arizona …
Peer collaborative learning enhances the value of student-to-student interaction and results in various advantageous learning outcomes. Instructors can use the Blackboard’s built-in collaboration tools to allow students to access each …
If you’ve looked at the new Recovery.gov site recently, you’ve probably noticed an interesting interactive element at the bottom of the main page. This timeline is a good, simple example …
Students in Marine Invertebrate Zoology have created short videos about published research articles. The videos can be seen in on the course YouTube Channel; catch some of the students’ enthusiasm …
Some ideas for using blogs and wikis in teaching college science, from a session I moderated with Brian Switek (a science blogger and ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University) …
As part of conference for scientists, bloggers, science educators, and journalists; (ScienceOnline09), Stacey Baker and her students (mostly 9th grade) answered questions about how they use technology to learn biology …
What is that little black device in your hand? An iPod? An iPhone? Some new kind of cellphone? Nope, its the ‘world’s smallest’ HD video camera – the Flip Mino …
