Extractions: IMPORTANT: THE "JOIN MY DISCOVERY" FORM CONTAINS OPTIONS FOR ALL SERVICES ON DISCOVERY.COM. ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO SET UP YOUR CUSTOM CLASSROOM IS: Click on the "Join My Discovery" link above. You will arrive at the My Discovery registration form. On the My Discovery registration form, complete the required name and address text boxes. Scroll down and check the Custom Classroom box.
Extractions: (Take this self-evaluation and find out.) True False I treat other people the way I want to be treated. I am considerate of other people. I treat people with civility, courtesy, and dignity. I accept personal differences I work to solve problems without violence. I never intentionally ridicule, embarrass, or hurt other people. I think I am/am not a respectful person because: This program ABOUT THE SERIES In Search of Character spotlights ten core virtues that help teens develop into caring, respectful, responsible people who make choices based on what's right, rather than what's easy. In this series, viewers take a fun, behind-the-scenes peek at the Dr. Mike Radio Show
Princess Things To Make And Do - Usborne Princess Craft Book Homeschoolers SocializingTexas State Symbol QuizTeach Multiple GradesState Study create 17 princess projects with this new Usborne book for girls. http://homeschooling.about.com/od/productcrafts/gr/princess.htm
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Create A Graph create A Graph This week was finals week for my son at UCI. Homeschoolers SocializingTexas State Symbol QuizTeach Multiple GradesState Study South http://homeschooling.about.com/b/a/156484.htm
Extractions: This week was finals week for my son at UCI. He needed to include a graph on his final research paper, that's when I discovered Create A Graph . This site is great! Choosing from 5 different types of graphs, students easily make customized graphs that can be saved to insert in your project, printed or emailed. You just have to try it, I think you'll love it. If it's good enough for UCI, it's good enough for homeschool!
IU Teaching Handbook: Section 2 — Teaching Methods Groups that are created for inclass discussion can be easily organized around the following How much does the quiz count toward the final grade? http://www.iub.edu/~teaching/handbook_2.shtml
Extractions: Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington Instructional Support Services Units Staff ... Home CAMPUS INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTING Business Education HPER Search CIC CIC Resources Handbook Preparing to Teach Teaching Methods ... Handbook The second section of the IU Teaching Handbook discusses specific instructional methodologies, including lecturing, facilitating discussions, group work, assessing student performance, using case studies, managing science labs, and teaching with technology. Adapted with permission from Farris, 1985 Back to top Being in the same room with someone saying something is not equivalent to learning it. Students must engage the material to retain it. Also, given that students' attention span is around 15 to 20 minutes long and university classes last 50 to 75 minutes, you need to do something to control their attention. Lectures should be punctuated with periodic activities. Many IU instructors report that when they intersperse short lectures with active engagement for students for as brief a time as two to five minutes, students seem to become re-energized for the next 15- to 20-minute mini-lecture. Adapted with permission from Farris, 1985
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Using The Internet In Economics Lessons economic economics education teaching. As students become more advanced at web use, they can begin to create their own pages. Any of the following ideas http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teachsug.htm
Extractions: An Idea Page Students at all levels get excited about using the web and can benefit from using the web for up-to-date information. Recommended grade levels are shown, but you should tailor the project to your students. At the end, we even have a couple of web projects for K-4 As students become more advanced at web use, they can begin to create their own pages. Any of the following ideas can be developed for advanced students by having them work in teams to create a Web Virtual Collection or Exhibition on the topic to share with others. Reminder: One of the most important things you can do for your students is help them learn to evaluate information! Have them ask: Who provided this information? What are his or her qualifications? Is this information consistent with what experts say? Does this information reflect a particular viewpoint? What are the other viewpoints? What can I learn from this web page? Here are some sources of information on this: Evaluating World Wide Web Information Criteria for evaluation of Internet Information Resources For these exercises, the search tools of the Web will be very useful. Any of the following projects can be enhanced by finding more supporting information. The students can do most of this! A web site that links all of the major search sites is found at
APS Observer - Dealing With Students Missing Exams And In-Class For example, at a small liberal arts school, where teaching is a faculty use daily quiz scores to substitute for a missed exam, use the average of http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/teachingtips.cfm
Extractions: Winging It Make a Wind Tunnel On the Wings of Insects Quiz Like all flight vehicles, micro-air vehicles, or MAVs, must maneuver in three dimensions, forwards, sideways and upwards. Changes in lift are needed to change the flight path. Most aircraft depend on control surfaces, such as elevators, rudders and ailerons to vary the lift of the surface to which they are attached. These control surfaces are often flaps on the trailing edges of the wings and stabilizing surfaces of the vehicle. The normal effect of inclining a surface downwards is to cause more air to flow downwards, thus increasing the lift of the surface to which the flap is attached. Sometimes the flaps extend backwards too, so that the area of the wing is slightly increased, but this effect is small relative to the effect of the downward tilt. Here we will construct a model of an open jet wind tunnel that uses a household desk fan to produce a flow of air. Using this airflow generator we can test small wing and see the effect of control surfaces. We will also see that the lift of the wing depends on the tilt or angle of attack of the wing surface.
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Extractions: This blog will focus on the teaching of High School online. There are many approaches to online education and we are here to share them. The tint of the cyber glasses are a result of working at the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School. Main The new look website is up and running...check it out. Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School Posted by dcannell at 01:31 PM Comments (0) Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out. Just take a look at some of the most successful info-based businesses of all time: Yahoo's Web Directory
Web Teaching Articles: Do-it-yourself Assessment You could also create lists that specify which data the test monitor should From Web Teaching Guide Copyright 2000 Sarah Horton Added 22 Mar 2001 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/assessment.html
Extractions: @import "../files/styles/main.css"; Go back to Articles menu Once you have invested valuable time and resources in setting up and maintaining a course Web site, it is well worth the effort to evaluate its effectiveness. Evaluation can reveal unexpected results: perhaps your students are using only specific areas of the site, or perhaps they're using the site in ways you had not anticipated, or perhaps they're not using the site at all. This knowledge, though potentially disheartening, can save you from misspending time and effort. Understanding the strengths and failings of your approach will allow you to adapt your strategy and to make best use of the medium. Two main areas of your site warrant assessment: its usability and its effectiveness as a teaching tool. Usability testing is a method for evaluating the effectiveness of your site's information architecture, navigation, and design. It measures how successful users are in locating information on your site and how they felt about the experience: Were they lost or derailed at any point in the process? Learning assessment measures the effect your site has on the learning process: Did students learn the materials as presented? There is great demand for substantive evaluative studies on the effectiveness of the Web as a tool for teaching. Some institutions are investing heavily in such studies, particularly when the Web is used in place of regular classroom teaching. Formal assessment is complicated, costly, and time-consuming, however, and it must be done by professionals to ensure experimental rigor. For projects with limited resources, consider conducting an informal assessment study. You aren't likely to reach a scientific conclusion about the overall effectiveness of computer-based teaching, but you will gather useful information about the effectiveness of your course Web site. With this information you can structure your further development efforts.
WebCT Newsletter - January 2005 teaching period you can choose to have a new WebCT unit created or use an existing unit Do you want to use the quiz tool in your WebCT unit in 2005? http://help-online.murdoch.edu.au/news/newsletter_jan05.html
Extractions: WebCT Newsletter - January 2005 Welcome to our first newsletter for 2005! As you prepare for semester 1 we would like to notify you about some changes and also remind you about preparing your WebCT unit for teaching. Requesting a WebCT unit You can now request your WebCT units using a new online request system. Each unit which will run on WebCT in an upcoming teaching period must be requested online to ensure it will be available for students. After specifying the unit code and teaching period you can choose to have a new WebCT unit created or use an existing unit. You will also need to select all the student cohorts which will access the WebCT unit. A link to the online WebCT Unit request system can be found on the WebCT login page at http://online.murdoch.edu.au or go directly to http://online-admin.murdoch.edu.au/newunitrequest 2004 WebCT units Semester 2 and Trimester 3 units from 2004 will be deactivated on Monday 31st January 2005. Students will no longer be able to access the units but staff will still have access.
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Extractions: Home Register Licences News ... Extras Version 6.0.4.22 of Windows Hot Potatoes released on August 15, 2005. This fixes an obscure bug in JCloze relating to the deletion of gaps consisting of only one character. Details on the bugs page Beta 6.0.1.6 of Java Hot Potatoes released on August 21, 2005. This is a bug-fix release. Details on the bugs fixed on the Java bugs page Java Hot Potatoes is targetted for Mac OS X, but will run on any computer running the Java Virtual Machine. Check out the alphas and betas page . Mac users download and install. Linux users,downlad and install and then run LinuxStartHotPot.sh file. We have a windows installer for Java Hot Potatoes. Check out the alphas and betas page The list of fixes and changes since the initial release last year is on the java bugs page What is Hot Potatoes?
AFT: Publications: American Educator Summer 2002: A Test Worth Teaching To A Test Worth Teaching To The IB s Course Guides and Exams Make a Good Marriage The IB organization in 1997 also created a Primary Years Programme for http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/summer2002/testworthteaching.h
Extractions: By Robert Rothman At a time when teachers in America are concerned that an excessive focus on tests threatens to drive out effective teaching and learning, the International Baccalaureate offers a counterweight: a program where examinations encourage high levels of instruction and achievement. Many people have heard of the IB, but what is it? The International Baccalaureate is a prestigious program developed in 1968 to accommodate the needs of mobile foreign diplomats. As these diplomats moved from post to post, they wanted their children to have access to a school program that would be consistent across locations and that, importantly, would prepare their children to pass the rigorous university entrance examinations back home. In the last decade, the IB has grown rapidly in the United States; currently, some 400 high schools in this country offer the program. Some of the growth occurred during the 1980s, when schools in the post- Nation at Risk period sought to add rigor to the high school curriculum. More recently, the program has grown because educators see it as consistent with the standards movements emphasis on challenging expectations for student performance.
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Extractions: Reliable Tests Workshop Series For the first time last February, the UW Teaching Academy in collaboration with Testing and Evaluation Services offered a four-week workshop on assessment. The Workshops provided the opportunity to obtain the information and skills necessary for writing high-quality classroom exams. James Wollack, John Siegler, Taehoon Kang, and Craig Wells from the Department of Testing and Evaluation Services met with workshop participants on four consecutive Tuesday afternoons to cover such topics as designing the test blueprint, creating multiple choice questions, designing short-answer questions and essay tests, and test item analysis. In workshop evaluations participants indicated that they considered the test blueprint to be one of the most valuable ideas they took away from the workshop series. The test blueprint specifies the objectives and skills that a test is intended to measure, as well as the relative weight given to each on that test. It is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of test development. The development of a test blueprint should always take place before any items are written. Each objective should be specific enough that you are able to create items that measure the particular skill on which that objective is based, but they should also be general enough for you to be able to create multiple items for a common objective.
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