Teaching Learning Center
Teaching Learning Center
Camstudio CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
You can use it to create demonstration
videos for any software program
Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
You can create video tutorials for school or college class
You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show
technical support people
You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your
favourite software program, before you forget them
EverNote is a FREE note-taking application for users of all desktops, laptops and tablets. New features include links to notes, new clipping and drag-and-drop capabilities, spellchecker, multiple databases in separate windows, password protection of entire database, and more.
The TLT Group: Why bother with technology?
Low Threshold Applications This web site is a repository of Low Threshold Applications (LTAs) that have been developed and are acknowledged here as potential resources to enhance the teaching and learning process.
Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses
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THREE PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE ONLINE PEDAGOGY Bill Pelz, CAS Professor of
Psychology
Herkimer County Community College
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio; Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs; Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files; Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together; Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Flickr is almost certainly the best
online photo management and sharing application in the world.
Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you. With Flickr
you can: Show off your favorite
photos to the world; Blog the photos you take with a cameraphone; Securely and
privately show photos to your friends and family around the world ... and much,
much more!
Basically, Flickr is what butters the borders between your photos to the people
you want to see them. And basic accounts are free!
Peace Maker Game A Game About Peace
Video games are a revolutionary medium for entertainment and education. They transport players to new places and allow them to explore, experiment, and learn at their own pace. In the past, many games have dealt with conquest, war, and destruction. PeaceMaker, however, is a game for the future– a game which will teach the player that peace and cohabitation, not war and annihilation, are the real strategies worth fighting for.
The Game: Synopsis
PeaceMaker is a one-player game in which the player can choose to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President. The player must react to in-game events, from diplomatic negotiations to military attacks, and interact with eight other political leaders and social groups in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office ends.
Core Target Audience
The core target audience for PeaceMaker is young adults worldwide, gamers and non-gamers alike. The game aims to educate future global citizens by allowing them to experiment with “what if” scenarios and experience events as seen from the other side’s perspective. In addition, in high school, college classrooms and community events, teachers can use PeaceMaker as an engaging and fresh way to involve their students in discussing current events.
The Game in the Classroom
PeaceMaker has already been integrated
successfully in several classrooms. These pilots were intended to explore PeaceMaker's
ability to enhance curriculum surrounding the subject matter:
- US-Arab Relations, a Carnegie Mellon University course taught simultaneously
in Pittsburgh and Qatar.
- The Arab-Israeli Condition, a Carnegie Mellon University course.
- Being a PeaceMaker, PA Cyber High School.
Blogger Create your own blog in minutes!
Atomic Learning: Tech Tutorials Access, Excel, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash 5, Fireworks, Pagemaker 7, FrontPage, Photoshop Elements, Encore DVD and more!
YouTube: Broadcast Your Videos (free)
Publish Dynamic Content on Your Web Site with RSS
Conferencing
@ your computer An article by Steven Bell & John D. Shank — March
1, 2006
The ins and outs of virtual conferences. Libraryjournal.com
PrimoPDF: A FREE PDF Converter
WebJunction: The online community for library staff
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's 7 Things You Should Know About...
How to convert an AVI to Flash using Camtasia
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Features demos, the Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
Sparksite
“Group projects aren't fair” is a frequent student response in higher
education. Group work is used to facilitate peer learning and encourage students
to develop collaboration, a crucial graduate attribute. Since assessment strongly
influences learning, any course objective to improve peer learning and/or collaboration
must have assessment that promotes it.
Self and peer assessment is a valid solution for promoting these objectives and overcoming potential inequities of equal marks for unequal contributions. Group members are responsible for negotiating and managing the balance of contributions and then assessing whether the balance has been achieved.
SPARK is an 'open source' web-based self and peer assessment kit solving major problems in current paper-based approaches. It enables confidentiality to students rating their own and their peers' contributions. A range of criteria related to team tasks and maintenance promotes fair acknowledgment of individuals' contributions. SPARK automates significant data collection, collation and calculation problems that academics would otherwise face. The factors produced by SPARK are used to change group marks to individual marks. Without this automation, academics with large classes simply could not consider self and peer assessment.
GIMP Edit photographs!
Updated November 1, 2006