Best Practices for Teaching with Etudes
Student Engagement and Active Learning |
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Student Sharing of Web Resources
Use the ETUDES News (RSS feed) tool with the help of tagging and social bookmarking (Del.icio.us) to engage your students. For details, see this blog titled Tagging as learning - activity description.
To learn more about Del.icio.us as a teaching tool, view this podcast about:
Student Submitted Multimedia for Peer Review
Using the built in RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feature at Box.net, you can allow your students to view your stored files using ETUDES News (RSS feed) tool. You can invite your students to upload their large multimedia files (up to 10mb each) to your Box.net account. If you choose to make it public, you can release it to the ETUDES New feed for other students to view.
25 Engaging Interactions for eLearning
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Student Assessment |
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Check Tests BEFORE Publishing
ALWAYS test-drive quizzes and tests as a student in a Development (DEV) site, prior to publishing them to students. Use of Preview is not sufficient to identify any problems.
This is particularly important when working with tests that were imported from Classic. When tests are designed using the Tests and Quizzes tool, it has good validation and it will not let instructors enter two choices for a single m/c type question NOR will it let them save a question with no choice selected. However, when importing tests from Classic or Word-2-QTI, there is no such validation, so human errors are not caught. To test-drive course site tests and quizzes as a student, use Add Participant to create a Fake Student account.
QTI Word Converter
You may want to take note that the QTI Word Converter creates a test with NO high security settings available. This is a problem for when the instructor needs to make a duplicate of the test for make-up or special accommodation with a password security setting.
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Prevent Cheating and Plagiarism |
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Manage Discussions |
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Multimedia |
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Want to make multimedia files larger than 5mb available to your students in ETUDES NG?
Using the built in RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feature at Box.net, you can allow your students to view your stored files using ETUDES News (RSS feed) tool. Each publicly shared folder and public Box in your account has its own RSS feed that can be recognized by the ETUDES RSS news feed reader.
Step 1: Get a free account at Box.net
Step 2: Upload your chosen multimedia files to your new Box.net account and make them Public.
Step 3: Select the folder you want to make available. Click on List View. Select 'Get Public Link' from the drop-down menu of the folder you'd like to share. You will be presented with an RSS link that you can post to ETUDES. Copy the URL (web address) listed under RSS: Open URL.
Step 4: Login to your ETUDES course. Click on Site Info. Click on Edit Tools. Select News. Paste the RSS URL from your Box.net account |
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Powerpoint Slideshows |
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Consider converting your powerpoint slideshow to webpage(s) or flash, or compressing your slideshow file.
A quick tutorial on how to compress images inside Powerpoint slideshows for smaller file size and easier upload to NG is available at: http://biguglycouch.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/what-is-the-point-of-your-powerpoint-2-of-3/
Or, post your slideshows outside ETUDES NG at Slideshare (http://slideshare.net). |
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Podcasting |
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Wikis |
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Monitor Student Participation in Etudes |
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Suggested Alternatives to Student Tracking for Checking Attendance
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Student Portfolios |
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Fair Use, Copyright, and TEACH Act |
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