Blog Archive
- Course Transformation Project Proposals »
- posted on February 25, 2010 by Riley Quarles
By Marcy Burstiner
Teaching an online class offers the promise of flexible scheduling and gives an instructor the ability to teach the class from any location. That has obvious advantages. At the same time, many people are leery about the idea of an online class. How do you know the students really read the material you put out? How do you communicate with them when they log on at different times? How can you replicate in-class discussions? How can you show the videos you show in class or go through the Powerpoints you use? How can you have questions and answers?
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- Creating Accessible Word Documents »
- posted on March 11, 2010 by Kim Vincent-Layton
Here is an unsolicited comment from Pam Dougherty in the HSU Advising Center: “I thought the online ‘Creating Accessible Word Documents” was an excellent course! Concise, clear, and fairly comprehensive. The graphics help a lot. I completed the course in chunks as I meet with students all day, but found it easy to pick up where I left off. I thought the exercise in making the sample document accessible was critical and useful, especially as I had no instructor present to answer my questions. I just went back to the training when I needed a reference.
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- Small Group Learning »
- posted on March 18, 2010 by Riley Quarles
At CELT we are avid proponents of integrating active learning strategies into your lessons. With class sizes increasing each year, more instructors are planning to incorporate small group activities to increase student engagement. There are many advantages and perceived disadvantages to small groups.
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- Educational Games »
- posted on April 29, 2010 by Joan Van Duzer
Who says learning can’t be fun?
“We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. –TheFunTheory.com
I can’t help believing in the Fun Theory. Some of my fondest memories from elementary school were the fun ways that teachers incorporated games into learning—from jump rope songs to spelling bees to trivia games and scavenger hunts—we were always eager to participate. Why should our interest in games for learning disappear in higher education?
Fortunately, the plethora of Web applications make it possible to incorporate learning games easily and quickly so I decided to check them out.
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- Please welcome our new Director and Staff! »
- posted on August 10, 2010 by Riley Quarles
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is pleased to announce the arrival of our new Director of Learning Assessment, Sonya Hildreth. She joins us from Fresno City College by way of a brief retirement with travels to Europe and Asia (ask her about it).
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- A Discussion on Plagiarism and Cheating »
- posted on September 30, 2010 by Riley Quarles
Plagiarism usually falls into one of two primary categories; intentional and unintentional. Often it is simply the result of an improper citation and/or disorganized research practice. Reviewing the proper citation procedures for your discipline with your students as a part of the rubric for assessing their work may help to alleviate some of this confusion. (1)
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- Bored with PowerPoint? »
- posted on October 22, 2010 by Joan Van Duzer
PowerPoint has become the de facto standard software to support presentations. However, advances in technology tools in the past few years—including Web 2.0 applications—have expanded the possibilities for easily improving presentations without extensive technology expertise.
Knowing how rapidly Web 2.0 technologies are cropping up, I couldn’t help wondering what other tools might be out there, so I cruised the landscape and decided to share a few of the things I found. The choices are both exciting and amazing—and most are either free or have a very low-cost option!
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- Diggin’ Diigo! »
- posted on November 18, 2010 by Joan Van Duzer
Those of us that regularly use more than one computer for web-based research have probably experienced the inefficiency and confusion (or frustration!) of misplaced bookmarks. Recently I overcame my skepticism of social bookmarking and gave Diigo a try. After trying out Diigo for less than an hour, I was hooked!
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- New Name, Even Better Event! »
- posted on January 25, 2011 by Riley Quarles
We at CELT, along with the rest of the organizing committee, would like to take this opportunity to formally introduce the 2011 Institute for Student Success, held here on the HSU campus Wednesday, May 18th, and Thursday, May 19th.
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- Recap of the “Cool Tools for Engaging the Millennial Learner” workshop »
- posted on May 25, 2011 by Joan Van Duzer
It was great fun to share some favorite web applications with participants in the “Cool Tools for Engaging the Millennial Learner” workshop at the recent Institute for Student Success. Kimberly Vincent-Layton and I presented a variety of “cool tools” and ways that they have been used to support innovation in learning.
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