2010
Online Teaching: Best Practices and Job Opportunities
Online Teaching: Best Practices and Job Opportunities
Tech Tip: DocsPal: Free Online File Converter
Successful Techniques and Proven Strategies For Finding Online Teaching Work
Veteran UW-Stout online instructor Dennis O’Connor shares “insider” tips on how to successfully locate and apply for online teaching jobs.
Time Management Tips For Teaching Online
Experienced UW-Stout online instructor Kay Lehmann lists numerous tips to efficiently manage your online classes including: organizing email, handling deadlines, developing class policies, and “working smarter, not harder” at grading and feedback.
Designing Effective Online Assignments
Yale librarian and online instructor Todd Gilman provides detailed suggestions on how to design flawless online assignments that facilitate independent learning and critical thinking.
Teaching Online For the First Time – The Quick Guide
Dr. Judith Boettcher describes ten best practices for teaching online, including: be present, create a supportive community, share clear expectations, and seek frequent feedback.
Online Discussions: Tips For Instructors
The staff at the Centre for Teaching Excellence provide a useful summary of the most essential strategies to ensure successful online discussions.
Predictors of Success For Adult Online Learners
Elizabeth A. Gruenbaum examines trends and techniques in designing and teaching online courses to increase satisfaction and success for non-traditional online students.
Ten Things I’ve Learned About Teaching Online
Michelle Everson shares her “lessons learned” about online teaching, including: underestimating the time needed to complete assignments, and dealing effectively with unmotivated students.
Tech Tip: DocsPal – Free Online File Converter
In two short steps,DocsPal gives users the capability to upload and convert documents “on the fly” into common file formats, such as: MS Word –PowerPoint-Excel to PDF; GIF to JPEG, PDF to HTML, CSV to PDF, and Office 2003 to 2007. A 20 MB per file size limit applies. Converted files appear as clickable links that can be opened and saved.
Program Spotlight
E-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate
Meet your professional development goals to be certified as highly qualified in the area of e-learning instruction and online training in as little as 9 months! Our program features small, highly interactive classes, job placement assistance, and competitive tuition rates. (15 graduate credits)
Course Sequence:
EDUC 760 E-Learning for Educators
This course meets the Wisconsin Department of Instruction professional development requirement for online teaching. “Beginning July 1, 2010, no person may teach an online course in a public school, including a charter school, unless he or she has completed at least 30 hours of professional development designed to prepare a teacher for online teaching.” [Wisconsin State Statute 118.19(13)]"
EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning
EDUC 764 E-Learning Practicum
Register Now For Classes Starting in June
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.
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No payment due until summer session begins.
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List of Online Courses For Summer 2010
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University of Wisconsin - Stout
Phone: (715) 232-2253
Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.
Posted by Karen Franker on 4/30/2010
Going Digital with Electronic Textbooks and E-Readers
Going Digital with Electronic Textbooks and E-Readers
Tech Tip: Build Virtual Bookshelves in Google Books
How Useful Are Digital Textbooks?
Leigh Gossel describes the pros and cons of using digital textbooks, including: compactness, easy customization, hardware vulnerability, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues.
Survey Says Textbooks Going Digital, Ready or Not
Lindsay Kastner reports on a recent survey of educators which shows that 65% of them believe that print textbooks are on their way out, yet only 19% say that their school district is “totally prepared” for the digital age.
E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers
The Knowledge@Wharton staff examines recent trends in electronic book publishing and considers whether electronic books are economically sustainable.
Tablet May Help E-Textbook Market, Publishers Hope
Jeffrey R. Young examines the potential of the iPad in higher education, and whether or not it will prove to be a better educational tool than laptop computers.
7 Things You Should Know About E-Readers (PDF file; requires Acrobat Reader)
In this newest addition to Educause’s “7 Things” series, the potential educational impact of e-readers is examined, including how e-readers work, who is using them, and what are the disadvantages.
DPS To Make Textbooks All-Digital in Five Years
Marisa Schulz describes the Detroit Public Schools’ plan to digitalize all student learning to promote higher achievement.
NYU Ups Selection of Digital Textbooks
Anna Sanders describes New York University’s 2009-10 pilot program to give students the option to purchase CaféScribe digital textbooks.
Tech Tip: Build Virtual Bookshelves in Google Books
Google Books has recently adding a useful shelving option. The Free Technology for Teachers blog lists the four steps for creating virtual bookshelves that can be shared with students. The shelves can be organized by reading level, genre or reading interests and provide an excellent way to share recommended books online.
Online Course Spotlight
EDUC 744 930 Trends in Instructional Design Starts May 3, 2010
First course in the Instructional Design Certificate program. Designed for professionals interested in switching careers, enhancing their career or developing focused competency in instructional design. Learn the skills necessary to develop self-paced e-learning products, print materials, computer-based training, courses, workshops, webinars, orientations and tutorials ... or redesign (improve) existing curriculum and instruction for just-in-time delivery and electronic performance support systems (EPSS).
Register Now For Classes Starting in May and June
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.
Sign up today to reserve a spot!
No payment due until summer session begins.
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
List of Online Courses For Summer 2010
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Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Phone: (715) 232-2253
Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.
Posted by Karen Franker on 3/25/2010
Effective Uses of Social Media in Education
Effective Uses of Social Media in Education
Tech Tip: How To Integrate Twitter With PowerPoint 2003 & 2007
Ages of Social Network Users
The Pingdom blog team provides interesting data on the age distribution across different social media tools. A major finding is that the 35-44 year-old age group dominated in the use of social media.
50 Social Media Innovators in Higher Education
A look at exemplary uses of social media, with descriptions of how 50 colleges and universities are using Facebook, Twitter, blogs and YouTube for news, marketing and instruction. Includes links to examples from each institution.
Tweeting Your Own Horn
Kevin Butler describes how school districts are using Facebook and Twitter to more effectively communicate with parents.
Social Media and Young Adults
A summary of the latest Pew Report, which shows a decrease in blogging and Twitter among young adults, but an increase in sites such as MySpace.
The Future of Social Media in Higher Education
A panel discussion sponsored by McGraw-Hill explores how social media is affecting the classroom now, and how it will change the classroom of the future. Includes videos of the discussion.
Fifth Period Is Facebook: Why Schools Should Stop Blocking Social Networking Sites
Nicholas Bramble suggests that it’s time to start utilizing the educational potential of social networking tools rather than trying to keep students away from them.
Incentive For Students and Teachers To Use Social Media in the Classroom
Yong Lee presents ideas from a Social Media Week discussion about how to motivate students and instructors to use social media in instruction.
13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom
Jeff Jarvis summarizes 13 examples of effective use of social media in specific K-12 and college institutions.
Higher Education’s Future: Collaboration, Augmented Reality, Faculty Education
David Berkowitz reports on the outcomes of a recent panel discussion which explored specific challenges and opportunities in using social media in higher ed.
Social Media Seminar Series
George Siemens and David Cormier facilitate free monthly online seminars on Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning which explore the impact of new technologies and research on social media in education. The next seminar is March 18, 2010.
Tech Tip: How To Integrate Twitter With PowerPoint 2003 & 2007
The staff at MakeUseOf.com provides step-by-step instructions for using a PowerPoint add-in which allows you to automatically tweet notes from your presentation and also display a TweetCloud of real-time audience feedback in your presentation.
Register Now For Classes Starting in May and June
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.
Sign up today to reserve a spot!
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List of Online Courses for Summer 2010
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Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Phone: (715) 232-2253
Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.
Posted by Karen Franker on 3/1/10
Tech Tip: 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips
Our Favorite New Tech Resources and Publications
Tech Tip: 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips
The Online Professional Development Program instructors at UW-Stout share their favorite tech tools and recent publications.
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Susan
Manning: Tech Tools: Jing and Screencast.com Both are terrific tools to create free screencasts for technology tutorials. Book: Manning, Susan. Online Education for Dummies. “A helpful guide for new adult students who wonder what they're getting into when they register for an online course. “ |
Ann Bell:
Book: Bell, Ann. Exploring Web 2.0: Second Generation Interactive Tools
This book is designed to help the casual computer user, students, parents, and teachers understand the latest in free and inexpensive web tools and their power for research, collaboration, and communication.
Dennis O’Connor:
Tech Tools:
Diigo.com “This social bookmarking system provides power tools for navigating and reading the Web. Mark up web pages, share bookmarks and resources, develop discussions, and automate bookmark-based slide shows and blog posts.”
Screenr.com “A very flexible desktop video capture system tied to your Twitter account. It allows you to make up to a 5-minute video with narration. Send your video via Twitter, upload to YouTube, create a downloadable MP4, embed the video, or provide a direct URL to the video on the screenr.com server. Similar to Jing, but no download required.”
Mary Alice Anderson:
Article: "The Power of Primary Sources", Multimedia & Internet@ Schools, November/December 2009.
Professional Development Program: TPSDirect, the online professional development program for the Library of Congress.
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Kay
Lehmann and Lisa
Chamberlin: Book: Lehmann, Kay and Chamberlin, Lisa. Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online Making the Move to eLearning proposes a radical truth—that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning—surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning. |
Tech Tip: 4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips
4 Useful Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks You Should Know
Ryan Dube shares four handy-to-know Word 2003 tips, including: how to place images precisely so the text flows smoothly around them, how to get pages to re-number in different sections of a document, how to insert pop-up comments, and how to use Word’s built-in research library.
Online Course Spotlight
EDUC 744 966 Implementing Instructional Technology Innovations
January 25-April 9, 2010
Explore how to improve instruction using Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, photo sharing, virtual offices, simulation and digital game-based learning.
Register Now For Classes Starting in February
Participate from your home computer; no travel to campus is required.
List of Online Courses For Spring and Summer 2010
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School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Phone: (715) 232-2253
Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.
Posted by Karen Franker; 1/19/2010
2009
Best New Online Web Search Tools
Google Docs: Best Tips & Resources For The Classroom
Twitter Tips for the Classroom
Create, Collaborate and Assess with VoiceThread
Smart New Ways to Use Interactive Whiteboards
Practical and Creative Uses of Classroom Wikis
Create, Collabroate, and Assess with VoiceThread
Create Engaging Content With Free Video Tools
Clickers and Other Digital Assessment Tools
E-Learning and the "Google Effect"
New Digital Image Resources and Working with Grouped Clip Art
2008
Top Educational Technology Tools & Resources For 2008
Empowering Learning With Digital Storytelling
Experts’ Favorite Time-Saving Tech Tip Shortcuts
Wikis: The Power of Collaborative Learning
Online Teaching and Training Careers
Creating Effective E-Portfolios
Top Reasons for Educators to Try Diigo
Collaborative Revision with GoogleDocs
Evaluating the Research Process
Creative Classroom Uses for Microsoft Excel
Best Digital Storytelling Resources
Experts’ Top Ten E-Learning Tools for Teaching & Professional Development
Powerful and Engaging K-12 Projects With VoiceThread
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