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Plan ahead for a Thanksgiving listen

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Once again this fall, the Great Thanksgiving Listen will happen in family rooms and breakfast nooks all over the USA. Why not ask your students to add their families’ voices to the collection at the Library of Congress? It’s all part of a national effort to collect oral histories. The website explains everything you need to […].

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Adobe Education Exchange courses

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The Adobe EdEx provides free courses that mix software skill training with strategies for using the products in the classroom.

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Self-asess your Sakai course

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Assessment was the topic for the final week of the BlendKit course and the reading included a great list of rubrics to help participants examine their own work. My favorite rubric came from Blackboard’s Exemplary Course Program. It was developed for a contest but can just as easily help instructors directly examine course materials for a blended or hybrid course in […].

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11 ways to collaborate in real time

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This week’s topic in the BlendKit Course is “Blended Content and Assignments.” In that vein I was thinking about ways student groups can work online, and it occurred to me that readers might not be aware of the wide variety of collaboration tools that are available. We’ll start with the basics and save the coolest stuff for last.

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Assess blended learning with student media

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Week 3 of the BlendKit Course deals with assessment and one topic is the use of projects and authentic tasks as evidence of students reaching learning goals. For me, that translates readily into assignments where students create media. Such projects are the focus of the Remix project at Notre Dame (image above) and they are one of the main topics on this blog.

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Student interaction in blended courses

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Student engagement in learning is critical and becoming actively involved is key. Learning involves interaction with the instructor, with content, and with other students. It would be wonderful if all three could happen exclusively in face-to-face courses and very frequently, but sometimes one or the other is problematic. Today’s answer is often blended learning.

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What is blended learning? [rev.]

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Blended Learning describes a course where part of the face time requirement has been moved online. For example, instead of meeting three days a week in a classroom, one class period is replaced with online activity. The type of activity is up to the instructor. When an institution is strapped for classroom space, this arrangement […].