ENC Online: Ideas That Work: Mathematics Professional Development during classroom teaching, and collaborative peers during lesson development. Truly collaborative partnerships move mathematicians away from the http://www.enc.org/professional/learn/ideas/math/document.shtm?input=ACQ-133273-
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections teaching.com is proud to announce its collaboration with the IECC service. For teachers in primary and secondary classrooms who are seeking partner http://www.teaching.com/IECC/
Extractions: teaching.com is proud to announce its collaboration with the IECC service. Read the whole story. IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships. Questions? Problems? Check out our new FAQ
Session Titles By Track Integrating Civic Responsibility and Science in the online classroom Using Technology to Promote Collaborative Learning in the classroom of the 21st http://www.league.org/2005cit/display_tracks.cfm?track=II Track
Extractions: @import "/stylesheets/standards.css"; @import ""; @import "/stylesheets/nfp.css"; Skip to content Home Cymraeg SiteMap ... List of funded CETLs National services and programmes Extranet The Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland, (DEL) invited applications for recurrent funds for Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Applications were invited from all higher education institutions in Northern Ireland. A copy of the Invitation is available at: The Excellence in Teaching and Learning Fund has established the following Areas of Excellence: Queens University Belfast has long played a distinguished role in the Arts in Northern Ireland, and offers varied, stimulating opportunities for deep, active learning, and cutting-edge facilities in the CPA. The CETL will build on an existing institutional strategy and investments and a record of inspiring and innovative teaching in Creative Writing, Drama, Ethnomusicology, Film Studies, History of Art, Music Technology and Social Anthropology, in order to unlock creativity. Relatively small amounts of money spent on bringing in artists will give disproportionate benefit to the student learning experience. More professional artists and performers on short-term residencies will provide hands-on learning opportunities for students, breaking down disciplinary barriers. A full-time artist-in-residence will supply vision and continuity, and animate projects and multi-media events involving students on various degree pathways. An interdisciplinary MA with a strong practical and entrepreneurial focus will be developed. Ideas and techniques will be exchanged across the CPA, leading to reflections on the learning process by staff and students for dissemination within and outwith the University. Through public events (an extraordinarily effective motivation to learn) and collaboration with local and international artists, existing links will be strengthened, bringing the community, the university and the professional arts world together.
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KET's Internet Projects List SchoolWorld Internet Education is a global online classroom designed for Some teaching resources are free; the student projects require a subscription. http://www.ket.org/Education/IN/projects.html
Extractions: Online Projects for the Beginning of the 2001/02 School Year Tips for Participating in Internet Classroom Projects Make Connections and Find Projects Follow an Adventure ... Miscellaneous FUN Online Activities Online Projects for the Beginning of the 2001/02 School Year Kidlink's "I Have a Dream" project helps youth realize their dreams about their future and a better world. Students are challenged to plan, design, and implement an Internet based project to realize their favored dreams in collaboration with peers in other countries. This educational program is for school classes and individual youth through secondary school level. Project Dates: September 15, 2001 to April 30, 2002. Sky Pictures Each week, for 6 weeks, participating classes (students ages 5 to 12 years) will exchange digital pictures of what their sky (horizon) looked like. Project Dates: September 17, 2001 to October 26, 2001. Each grade K-4 class will read, write and submit via email a book report of their choice for each one of the following genres: Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Fairy Tale, Realistic Fiction. Project Dates: October 7, 2001 to November 30, 2001. Story Writing Project 9: Connecting you Globally Six schools (students ages 5-13) will work together to write a story. When you register your class, you will join a Story Writing Group with five other classes. Each class will be assigned a one week period in which to write their paragraph and email it. Project Dates: September 23, 2001 to November 8, 2001.
PBS Online: Only A Teacher: Teachers Today: Sandy Warner Q How did your teacher training prepare you for the classroom? We are really looking at teaching as much more of a collaborative process that we plan http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/today13.html
Extractions: Well I think in the past in the beginning, teachers had a short experience that usually lasted about ten weeks in the spring of the year so they were coming into classrooms that were already up and going, that were running, and those of us who went through that kind of teacher education program had a real rough time when we got to our own first year of teaching because we had no idea what had happened in the beginning of the year, to get that classroom up and going, how expectations, rules, procedures had gotten established. My beginning teaching experience was also limited in the actual amount of teaching I did. You know, gradually someone let me begin teaching a little bit, but I didn't truly feel responsible and accountable for what happened in that classroom.
Instructional Strategies For Online Courses The Illinois online Network (ION) is a collaboration of all community colleges in metaphor for online teaching. Effective online instruction depends on http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/pedagogy/instructionalstrategie
Extractions: Effective online instruction depends on learning experiences appropriately designed and facilitated by knowledgeable educators. Because learners have different learning styles or a combination of styles, online educators should design activities that address their modes of learning in order to provide significant experiences for each class participant. In designing online courses, this can best be accomplished by utilizing multiple instructional strategies. Teaching models exist which apply to traditional higher education learning environments, and when designing courses for the online environment, these strategies should be adapted to the new environment. ONLINE COURSES AND MULTIPLE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES Online learning environments permit a full range of interactive methodologies, and instructors have found that in adapting their courses to online models, they are paying more attention to the instructional design of their courses. As a result, the quality, quantity, and patterns of communication students practice during learning are improved. Of the many instructional strategies available for use in the online learning environment, most have not been developed specifically for online instruction, but are currently used in traditional classrooms, and can be successfully adapted for facilitating online learning. Educators should choose instructional strategies that are most effective for accomplishing a particular educational objective. From this perspective, instructional strategies are tools available to educators for designing and facilitate learning . Below are ten instructional strategies which have been effectively used in the traditional classroom and can likewise be used in the online learning environment:
Extractions: "There is a significant shortage for teachers who have a strong science background and have access to adequate professional development. In addition, a generation of teachers is preparing to retire from the classroom," said Clayton. The National Research Council is seeking ways to get individuals who are highly trained in science into the classroom. One group that it suggested targeting were individuals with doctorates who have decided not to pursue a laboratory career or to go into teaching at the university level. In their call for a national demonstration project to find ways to entice PhDs to go into teaching at public schools, the officials of the National Research Council wrote, "A significant number of new PhDs in science, mathematics and engineering are seeking careers that make good use of their hard-earned skills but are outside the traditional ones at universities or in industry."
Extractions: Information Literacy Blog Teachers and Librarians: Collaborative Relationships. ERIC Digest. by Russell, Shayne The results of a study by the Library Service Center of the Colorado State Library offer the most recent support for library media specialists and teachers working collaboratively. The study concludes that test scores increase as school librarians spend more time collaborating with and providing training to teachers, providing input into curricula, and managing information technology for the school (Manzo, 2000). A significant number of prior studies also indicate a positive relationship between the library media program and academic achievement. Didier (1984) examines 38 of these studies, including Gaver's (1963) study of the impact of elementary library service on test scores; Greve's (1974) research on the effect of library service on the academic achievement of high school seniors; and Snider's (1965) investigation of the relationship between college success and knowledge of information skills. COLLABORATION DEFINED CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO THE GOAL REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1998). "Information power: Building partnerships for learning." Chicago: Author.
Extractions: Skip Navigation Design: Home Research Projects Education ... Site Map MATRIX uses its unique position in the communications revolution to pioneer ideas and innovations, as the heirs of the Internet develop into the 21st century. While we have a cautious view of the value of the communications revolution for teaching, we support experimentation and innovation in the classroom. In addition to developing a wide range of teaching tools, we are focusing at the present on two main challenges: the digitation of sound files so that they can best be utilized by teachers, students, and researchers, and the development of large-scale integrated research tools that can be developed by widely disparate repositories and freely accessed worldwide. The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive databse of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media. The AMP is a project of from Michigan State University's African Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center in African Languages and Area Studies.
TTTC - In The News In 1999, teach the teachers Collaborative (TTTC), a unique partnership of teaching Assistants in every classroom capture the lessons in electronic http://www.teachtheteachers.org/news.cgi?showID=15
EdReform.Net | Digital Equity - Effective Use The America Connects Consortium is a collaboration of eight partners and allied This partnership combines the research and teaching resources of The http://digitalequity.edreform.net/portal/digitalequity/equitydimensioneffective
Extractions: The ADA Technical Assistance Program has been in existence since 1992, shortly after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Since its inception, the Program has consisted of a diverse array of projects to further the understanding and implementation of the Act. Alaska Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
Extractions: In memory of William Ellis, who initiated the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities' exploration of teacher preparation. Mr. Ellis served as a representative to the NJCLD for The Orton Dyslexia Society and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Preparation of General Education Teachers in a Core Curriculum All prospective teachers need to have, at a minimum, an overview of the scope and sequence of the curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade. In addition, teachers should be well prepared in their subject areas and understand the central concepts and tools of inquiry in these areas. The curricular areas required for all prospective teachers are reading, writing, communication skills, mathematics, social studies, the sciences, health/physical education, fine arts, and vocational/transition education. The emphasis in early childhood is on sensorimotor and social/emotional development, listening and speaking, and emerging reading, writing, and mathematical skills. In
Designing A Virtual Classroom The Virtual classroom is an environment that facilitates collaborative learning among This does pose a problem for the economics of online teaching. http://www.njit.edu/CCCC/VC/Papers/Teaching.html
Extractions: Roxanne@eies.njit.edu The Virtual Classroom [TM] is a teaching and learning environment constructed in software, which supports collaborative learning among students who participate at times and places of their choosing, through computer networks. This paper describes experiences and results of utilizing Computer Mediated Communications structured to create a Virtual Classroom (VC). Emphasis is placed on guidelines for using the technology successfully by incorporating "collaborative learning" activities. Computer-Mediated Communication systems, especially when enhanced to create what we refer to as a Virtual Classroom, [TM] Generically, the Virtual Classroom is a teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication system. Rather than being built of steel and concrete, it consists of a set of group communication and work "spaces" and facilities that are constructed in software. Thus it is a "virtual" facility for interaction among the members of a class, rather than a physical space. Specifically, the Virtual Classroom
WAIER Forum 2003 Gaynor And Fraser - Online Collaborative upon an online collaborative email partnership with another primary school. The collaborative, inquirybased, student-centred classroom provided http://education.curtin.edu.au/waier/forums/2003/gaynor.html
Collaborating With Faculty In Preparing Students For The Librarians can partner with teaching faculty to provide the appropriate instruction Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Evaluating the Virtual classroom, in online http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/nashville1997pap/harveydewald.htm
Extractions: Penn State University Berks Campus If the academic library is at the center of a liberal education, then librarians must be proactive and aggressively pursue opportunities to collaborate with teaching faculty and technical support personnel in the new educational paradigms of student-centered active and collaborative learning. Academic librarians must prepare themselves to expand the traditional content of library literacy sessions by incorporating critical thinking, evaluating resources, and computer searching skills. Librarians can partner with teaching faculty to provide the appropriate instruction in the expertise needed by the students in this new environment. Penn State University's Project Vision Library Studies course, "Learning Strategies for the Information Age," is used as a model. Academic librarians have always supported the educational mission of the campus by providing instruction in the information-seeking skills students need for learning. Several forces working together are changing the learning climate in higher education, and this new learning climate calls for changes in library instruction. Librarians must be proactive in leading their campuses to awareness of the new skills students need, and collaboration with teaching faculty is an effective means of preparing students for the new learning environment.
Featured Articles In terms of overall experience, survey respondents with online teaching In general, the percent of respondents who viewed online collaboration and http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/JAN02_Issue/article02.html
Extractions: Download the complete PDF of this issue Welcome to the first of a series of research reports and survey results related to the use of the Internet in teaching and learning. This initial report addresses the use of the Internet by postsecondary instructors. We conducted this survey in response to the proliferation of college instructors using the Web as a resource in their teaching. Instead of randomly surveying college instructors about their Web-based teaching needs, experiences, and support mechanisms, this study targeted those with some experience in using the Web as a teaching and learning resource. More specifically, this sample was selected from instructors who had at least shared an online version of a syllabus, posted an instructor profile, or reviewed and critiqued online resources on the Web. The objective of this research was to learn about the common obstacles, supports, and experiences as well as the tools used among early adopters of the Web as a teaching resource. The findings indicate that many college instructors already have extensive online teaching experience. In fact, the participants in our sample have some strong opinions and suggestions for college administrators and courseware developers.
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Extractions: 408-566-5694 or colin.smith@webex.com LONDON and SAN JOSE, Calif., December 1, 2004 WebEx Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBX), a provider of on-demand web meeting applications, and the Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management are working together to provide students with virtual classroom capabilities powered by the collaborative e-learning application, WebEx Training Center. WebEx Training Center enables students and professors to share documents, software applications, streaming media and video to create an online classroom environment for individuals in remote locations. The WebEx University Programme is an initiative designed to increase access to higher education around the world by expanding the use of remote learning. The programme provides a special educational package, including administrator training and promotional discounts, to European universities and colleges. The Rotterdam School of Management, part of Erasmus University, aims to increase its student base, scale its online learning programmes, expand its class offerings, improve student teacher interaction, reduce travel costs and enhance the learning experience. Using WebEx Training Center, the School will offer its diverse portfolio of teaching programmes, ranging from pre-experience MSc, postgraduate MBA, executive education, and business support, to students all over the world via virtual classes.
