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Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources (Journal Article #3)

March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Bob, Uncategorized

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb302/is_2_34/ai_n45100149/?tag=content;col1 This week I will review another article from Teaching History: A Journal of Methods which appeared in the Fall 2009 publication. The title of the article is: Teaching with on-line primary sources: documents from the national archives. Michael Hussey is the author and he is writing about newly available information of a primary source […]

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Online webinars for continuing medical education

March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Online Webinars for Continuing Medical Education: An effective method of live distance learning by Kristine M. Zargoza- Anderson This article presents Webinars as an effective tool that is used in Distant Education. Webinars are “web-based seminars” where interactions between learners and educators utilizing the internet to transmit lectures, presentations and engage in workshops. Identifying effective […]

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The Role of Distance Education in Forming Communities of Learning

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The article I read this week is titled “Mimicking Proximity: The Role of Distance Education in forming Communities of Learning” discusses the importance of utilizing the development in communication technology to facilitate communication between instructors, learners and help establish learning communities that enhances the learning experience. The article represented social and psychological factors that encourage […]

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Interaction enhance the learning experience- response for Jonathan’s comment

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Interaction enhance the learning experience; In the articles I have referenced, there were no specific techniques to foster student participation. Nonetheless, one important element in the article that stood out more than the others that affected student participation was the importance of the teacher feedback. The article presented that “instructors need to provide students with […]

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#3. Communication Topics and Strategies in E-mail Consultation: Comparison between American and International University Students, by Sigrun Giesenbach-Lucas http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num2/biesenbachlucas/

February 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

In my last journal, I mentioned that writing e-mails to professors in an appropriate manner can be a daunting task for non-native-speaker students.  However, the article (above) that I read for this week’s assignment suggests that even native speaking students are not always confident of their e-mail communications with their professors.  In “Communication Topics and […]

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Interaction enhances the learning experience

February 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Interaction is defined in computer mediated instruction is “reciprocal exchange between technology and the learner” (Gilbert and Moore, 1998). Interaction enhances the learning experience. Distant Learning courses are more effective when they encourage all types of interactions and students’ involvement As outlined in the article, Interactions are enhanced when the teaching environment encourages the following: […]

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Transforming Music Teaching via Technology

February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Kim, Uncategorized

Transforming Music Teachers via Technology: the Role of Professional Development The article I read this weekend is about music teachers who spent a week at a music technology workshop. The authors investigate whether this one week workshop can be an effective means for the professional development of music teachers in using technology for instruction. Participants […]

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Journal Article: Enhancing Class Communications through Segregated Social Networks

February 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

 BLOG by: Lynn Barnsback Marketing Education Review    Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2009) Author: Robert E. Boostrom, Jr., Raghu Kurthakoti & John Summey  This article presents the results of an experiment where students use a Segregated Social Network (SSN) to manage class information and team projects for a marketing research class.  In addition to helping them […]

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Journal #2: The Development of E-mail Literacy: from Writing to Peers to Writing to Authority Figures (Language Learning & Technology, 10, 35-55.)

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

When I began pursuing my second bachelor’s degree in America five years ago, I encountered a lot of difficulties that I had never expected.  One of them was e-mail communication with my professors.  I wondered whether my e-mails should look like letters or look like speech, and I wasn’t sure if the words that I […]

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Synthesis Exercise & teaching assignment

February 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

I have been a tech-averse person my entire life.  Thus, I have very little knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and have little experience in using them.  Thus, at this point I don’t feel competent in discussing “technology-enriched learning activities and teaching practices that would maximize learning for the kinds of students entering higher […]

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