Best Practice

This presentation was part of the PowerPoint Brownbag series organized by Dale Roenigk.  On September 16th, Will Cross and Emily King presented on best practices for using images in teaching.  The information provided were best practices and not legal advice, but more suggestions.  Will Cross shared five best practices for teaching with images: Assume...
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We make a lot of presentations in our building. Most are used as part of our face-to-face classes, but increasingly, many of these end up online as well as the basis of online courses. Dale Roenigk, fearless discussion leader of our first event, has created a schedule for these sessions for the third Thursday...
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Mike recently made a couple very good posts on PowerPoint on his blog. It’s been interesting reading his posts, the comments, and following the many of the shared links. I really like the Slate.com article that Jill M. shared and tend to subscribe to the it’s-just-a-tool philosophy.  Giving me a hammer, doesn’t make...
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I read a blog article on Inside Higher Ed today where the author asks why “webinars ALWAYS suck?“.   The brief article is worth the read and makes me chuckle because I know exactly what he’s talking about.  I’ve watched many over the last couple years and tend to agree with his assessment…except… that many...
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The UNC Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) announced a new series of workshops on visual literacy.   The series of sessions will expose you to a wide variety of image and media collections, and media tools available at UNC.  It also covers the pedagogical, legal and technical issues that surround the use of copyrighted materials...
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How does the concept of frugality apply to teaching and learning? For me, it is about being economical while being effective–that is: using sound instructional practices that have been empirically proven to produce learning, focusing on the knowledge and skills learners need to do their jobs and protecting learners from cognitive overload, and producing instruction...
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We’ve written a couple posts now on webinars at SOG (here and here), but today’s event wins the prize.  For those unable to attend today’s webinar, you missed out!  I hope you will take the time to watch the archive.  It is well-worth a lunch time viewing…but not as good as the live event!...
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So, you wanna do something with media, huh?  The following 9 questions are worth asking yourself before you undertake any media project for your course-whether you do it yourself, or work with a TLS team member 9 Questions for designing media for instruction and learning What is the need, problem or gap for which...
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Our new poster theme emphasizes the truth that teaching is more than telling or presenting.  Alone, telling and showing do not automatically result in learning.  Learning is most likely to occur when 1) the information presented meets a learner’s needs, 2) when learners adapt the knowledge to their context, and 3) when learners get...
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John Stephens sent me a link today to a Wired Campus post on using clickers in the classroom (“clickers”=the generic name for TurningPoint type tools) .  There were a couple good points (adapted below),  but the main thing it made me think of is that we really ought to develop an SOG list of...
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