tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35937556072023414912024-03-19T05:10:28.349-07:00Digital Co-LabAdriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-12515641726051519202014-07-24T11:55:00.000-07:002014-07-24T11:55:01.084-07:00Moodle Update at LCCLane's version of Moodle is updated periodically, and one such update took place this month. It may appear that some familiar icons are missing. However, do not worry! The functions are still available, but they are organized in a different manner. <a href="https://blogs.lanecc.edu/moodle/some-moodle-changes/" target="_blank">Check out Kevin Steeves' fabulous blog for details on the changes.</a><br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-13762663849212398232014-05-29T15:19:00.002-07:002014-05-29T15:19:53.931-07:00Grammar resourcesWow! Aliscia Niles has shared a fabulous find, <a href="http://www.quill.org/" target="_blank">Quill</a>, which provides interactive, adaptive grammar lessons and practice activities as well as opportunities for students to engage in peer review. Learn more about this open educational resource and its uses for instruction by reading Aliscia's<a href="http://aliscianiles.blogspot.com/2014/05/quill-personalized-and-interactive.html" target="_blank"> blog post.</a><br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-75412388139652159632014-05-07T12:56:00.002-07:002014-05-07T12:56:52.693-07:00Highlights: Spring 2014The Digital Collaboration Faculty Fellowship aims to increase student success in developmental education and beyond by creating a framework and virtual space for instructors to share their instructional materials, learning objects, modules, OER (open educational resources), and pedagogical strategies across disciplines and departments.<br />
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Nineteen faculty members from four departments have participated in the project sharing well over 130 learning objects and curricular materials digitally thus far. Specifically, participants have contributed:<br />
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<li>Self-paced online placement test preparation resources for new students wishing to begin math or writing courses,</li>
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<li>Instructional materials for use in online, hybrid and traditional face-to-face courses, and</li>
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<a href="http://digcolab.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Learn more about the Digital Collaboration Faculty Fellowship</a>.<br />
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Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-4381646353014734242014-04-30T12:28:00.002-07:002014-04-30T12:28:43.796-07:00More SoftChalk workshops coming soon!SoftChalk is offering some great options for training including "An Overview of SoftChalk Create" on May 6 at noon (PDT) and "TextPoppers, Images and Hyperlinks" on May 8 at noon (PDT).<br />
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<a href="http://softchalk.com/learn-more/training/short-courses" target="_blank">View the complete schedule here!</a><br />
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<b><i>What is SoftChalk, and what can instructors do with it?</i></b><br />
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SoftChalk allows instructors to develop interactive online lessons and practice activities for their students. These can be added to Moodle as SCORM packages that feed directly into the Moodle gradebook, albeit not 100% seamlessly.<br />
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Check out these<a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/als/writing_prep/writing_prep_modules/" target="_blank"> online grammar modules </a>to see one example of a SoftChalk lesson or the <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/math/mathplacementprep/" target="_blank">Math Placement Preparation site </a>for another.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-58810936627676901882014-04-17T13:25:00.001-07:002014-04-17T13:25:36.627-07:00Welcome New DIG Co-Lab Participants!Wow! Spring must be the time to dive into new projects with renewed energy. We have an incredible group of dynamic faculty members who have joined the DIG Co-Lab Faculty Fellowship this term!<br />
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Many are making blog posts left and right, sharing materials, and helping each other. Take a look at Alise Lamoreaux's <a href="https://www.haikudeck.com/" target="_blank">Haiku Deck</a> explaining, <a href="http://digitalleaningfellowship.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/what-is-a-course-syllabus/" target="_blank">"What is a Course Syllabus?"</a> linked to her blog, Amy Gaudia's <a href="http://prezi.com/" target="_blank">Prezi</a> on <a href="https://blogs.lanecc.edu/amy-gaudia/2014/04/10/calm-confident-test-taking/" target="_blank">"Calm Confident Test Taking,"</a> or Stacey Zinniker's Prezi for her <a href="http://zinnikers.blogspot.com/2014/04/prezi-as-class-outline.html" target="_blank">own course outline</a>.<br />
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This term promises to be a fruitful one for DIG participants!<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-36231882395970433772014-04-07T15:06:00.002-07:002014-04-07T15:06:57.377-07:00Experimenting with badgesIt's now possible to issue digital badges in Moodle, so I decided to experiment with an "English Grammar" badge in one of my writing courses in Winter. Students who demonstrated proficiency received a badge at the end of the term, and the badge became a part of their Moodle profile.<br />
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I had a good number of questions about digital badges... Did the badges motivate students? Were they more willing to complete course work? Did they care about badges? How many students would earn one?<br />
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At the end of the term, 20% of students in the course earned a badge, and I surveyed all students about their experience to learn more about their thoughts on badges. While the results were somewhat mixed, more students expressed a positive opinion about badges. Many were neutral; however, a few expressed strong opinions. Comments ranged from, "Yes -- it motivated me!" to "Honestly, I could care less about the badge system."<br />
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I will repeat the experiment this term, so stay tuned for more results.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some results from Moodle digital badge survey</td></tr>
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-72506506750657678662014-03-19T10:53:00.000-07:002014-03-19T10:53:22.742-07:00Step on the gas?What is the impact of accelerating developmental education sequences? Is acceleration effective? Do more students reach and complete college-level courses if they take accelerated courses instead of a traditional developmental writing or math sequence? It does stand to reason that with fewer exit points, students are less likely to leave the "pipeline," and according to <a href="http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/accelerated-developmental-education.pdf" target="_blank">CCRC research released this month</a>, the answer is a resounding "yes."<br />
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This evidence supports developmental education redesign efforts underway at Lane Community College including the Academic Learning Skills Department's <a href="http://lanecc.edu/als/als-writing-courses" target="_blank">accelerated developmental writing sequence</a>, the collaborative Math/ALS <a href="http://www.lanecc.edu/lc/cofferings/math-10-math-20" target="_blank">Math 10 + 20 = 1 term</a> learning community, and the new math pathways endeavor, which will create an alternate pathway to college level math with a focus on statistics instead of algebra.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-77504070473742653762014-03-12T12:56:00.003-07:002014-03-12T12:56:46.739-07:00Students Screencast!Instructors use screencasts for a variety of purposes such as creating tutorials, mini-lectures, or providing feedback, but what about asking students to create screencasts in order to deepen their learning?<br />
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<a href="http://www.edudemic.com/screencasts-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank">Learn more</a> about how one teacher, Kate Lewis, utilizes screencasting in her classroom by having students create the videos. This provides an opportunity to differentiate instruction as students are asked to focus on an area of individual difficulty. Imagine the possibilities as students become producers of media; the instructional uses are limitless.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from Wikipedia</td></tr>
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-50493447371541273402014-03-05T11:37:00.000-08:002014-03-05T11:37:13.264-08:00Learn to Screencast!Lane faculty are cordially invited to attend a workshop to learn to screencast!<br />
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Wednesday, March 12<br />
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<i><b>Why learn to screencast?</b></i><br />
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Screencasts are short, easy-to-create videos that can be used to provide instruction or feedback to students, and they provide the option for students to view the video multiple times, pausing at any time to take notes if desired. Instructors can use them to provide feedback on papers, to provide mini-lectures, or as tutorials on how to do something online such as search for relevant articles or submit a file on Moodle.<br />
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Please RSVP to Adrienne if you plan to attend.<br />
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<i><b>What does a screencast look like?</b></i><br />
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View some of these examples:
<a href="http://youtu.be/cVGxQQZ1H1k">Math homework problem, </a>
<a href="http://youtu.be/DRNLfmVoV4Q">Using moodle (for instructors), or </a>
<a href="http://youtu.be/ucK0UEKa9aw">Grammar: parallelism lesson.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Return to Screencasting" <br />photo by Remy Sharp</td></tr>
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-21590158474183158512014-02-21T13:15:00.001-08:002014-02-21T13:19:26.741-08:00Ready for Open Educational Resources?<p>Lane faculty librarian, Jen Klaudinyi, developed a thorough <a href="http://lanecc.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=568436&sid=4694518">guide to OER</a> (Open Educational Resources). Not only does the guide introduce faculty to OER, it also provides resources that instructors may utilize to find existing OER as well as additional details about copyright, fair use, and options for creating their own original open educational resources.
Thank you, Jen, for such a fabulous, useful tool!</p><br />
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Inventory of the First Ten Months of Collaboration<br />
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3 terms<br />
13 dedicated faculty members<br />
3 departments<br />
131 blog posts<br />
130+ learning objects, videos, quizzes, courses and other digital resources shared<br />
11 awards to faculty members thus far<br />
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subtotal: immeasurable professional development<br />
total: endless, inspiring innovation!<br />
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Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-3550926036212666822014-02-05T09:50:00.001-08:002014-02-05T12:26:30.629-08:00Mash-ups: More on MyOpenMathMyOpenMath has great potential for use in developmental math classes, and it is an OER (Open Educational Resource) to boot! Learn how Julie Pfaff has used it in her ABSE classes by <a href="http://juliesdigcolab.blogspot.com/2014/02/my-open-math.html" target="_blank">reading her blog post.</a> It is possible to create courses on <a href="https://www.myopenmath.com/" target="_blank">MyOpenMath</a> and export them as <a href="http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/" target="_blank">Common Cartridge</a> files, which can be imported to Moodle using LTI (<a href="http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm" target="_blank">learning tools interoperability</a>). This allows an instructor to combine MyOpenMath content and exercises with their own instructional resources and activities in the Moodle platform. In addition, MyOpenMath exercises that are integrated into Moodle via LTI feed directly into the Moodle gradebook for seamless integration of MyOpenMath content within a Moodle shell.<br />
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David Lippman, creator of MyOpenMath, explains the process of how to export a MyOpenMath course as a common cartridge file and import it into Moodle, activating exercises with LTI in his <a href="http://youtu.be/WJDxiU51VmM" target="_blank">video. </a> Below you will find an image of MyOpenMath exercises integrated in a Math 10 course; the puzzle piece icon in Moodle designates "external tools," and in this case, the exercises are fully integrated into Moodle.<br />
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Robust applications such as MyOpenMath were once only available from textbook publishing companies; now, such resources are not only free online but also provide instructors with the possibility to create their own "mash-up" of OERs and instructor-developed resources within a single platform. Opportunities abound.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-2634189171563193892014-01-29T15:17:00.000-08:002014-01-29T15:32:04.943-08:00Upcoming SoftChalk TrainingsThere will be several SoftChalk webinars in the month of February, and these training opportunities or "short courses" last just one hour and are conducted online, so instructors can easily participate from virtually anywhere.<br />
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SoftChalk provides faculty with an opportunity to create interactive practices and lessons, which can be used in online, hybrid, or traditional face-to-face courses. SoftChalk can be a great tool to add to your repertoire as it is relatively easy to use. Check out the <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/math/mathplacementprep/" target="_blank">Math Placement Preparation site</a> and Academic Learning Skills' <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/als/writing_prep/writing_prep_modules/" target="_blank">grammar modules</a> to see examples of interactive SoftChalk lessons.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-74679274774865082002014-01-24T11:46:00.001-08:002014-01-24T11:47:59.718-08:00Math for everyone!Faculty members at Lane have developed a variety of resources for students to use to help prepare to take the math placement test. These are available for everyone, and they include a <a href="https://classes.lanecc.edu/course/view.php?id=21516" target="_blank">Moodle shell with practice problems</a> for each section of the placement exam, an <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/math/mathplacementprep/" target="_blank">online interactive practice site</a> accessible by students and community members alike, and a <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/mitchella/math_10/math_10_resources/" target="_blank">review focused on Math 1</a>0 replete with videos and exercises.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-22701986434195954492014-01-14T15:03:00.002-08:002014-01-14T15:03:31.580-08:00State of Oregon Dev Ed RedesignCheck out what is going on at the state level -- the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development has convened a task force to analyze best practices in developmental education redesign and make recommendations for their implementation. <a href="http://ccwd.oregon.gov/DevEdRedesign/" target="_blank">View the website to find out more. </a><br />
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Thanks to Susan Reddoor of Academic Learning Skills and Ben Hill of Mathematics for representing Lane in this important endeavor!<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-87138119708846713312014-01-07T15:34:00.000-08:002014-01-07T15:34:05.890-08:00Grammar for everyone!Lane's Academic Learning Skills Department now provides<a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/als/writing_prep/writing_prep_modules/" target="_blank"> free, interactive grammar modules online</a>. These are available to everyone! Students may wish to use the modules before taking a placement test or while taking more advanced writing courses to brush up on their skills. Come share in the fun! After all who doesn't need a little grammar review once in a while?<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-71205303434498928762013-12-10T09:03:00.000-08:002013-12-10T09:03:32.445-08:00Snowbound finals! Going online with exams...After 2.5 snow days and many final exams delayed, instructors may wish to consider making exams available to students online. Here is a very brief video outlining the basic steps for adding a quiz or exam on Moodle, and the video may also be <a href="http://youtu.be/IgTjVMLbeFw" target="_blank">viewed on YouTube</a><br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-13097510386942933612013-12-05T11:17:00.000-08:002013-12-05T11:17:38.015-08:00Moving Forward with Innovation in Dev Ed at Lane!Lane's Academic Learning Skills Department (ALS) has achieved some noteworthy success with students. For instance, of students in Lane's Achieving the Dream cohort who placed 1-3 levels below program level writing, 43% completed their program level writing whereas only 33% of students who placed directly into program level did indeed complete that program level writing within three years. Furthermore, 48% of students who placed 1-2 levels below completed program level writing -- 15% more than those who placed directly at program level. Students who placed into developmental writing were more likely to achieve success in program level writing, particularly if they needed only one or two dev writing classes!<br />
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Building on this current success with students, the department has developed a plan to redesign the developmental writing sequence, reducing coursework to a maximum of two quarters. On December 4, 2013, LCC's Curriculum Committee approved ALS' two new courses: WR087 and WR097 for this initiative. While Lane currently has a three term, 13-credit developmental writing sequence, the new sequence will allow students to accelerate through preparatory writing in two terms or less with 9 developmental writing credits and a co-requisite course providing 3 college transfer level credits. The new courses will integrate grammar, critical reading, writing, and basic information literacy skills to help prepare students for WR115 and beyond.<br />
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Faculty are moving forward with this exciting new project! Curriculum development is already underway with no less than sixteen faculty members collaboratively developing sample units and modules for the new courses. Undoubtedly, resources shared through the DIG Co-Lab faculty fellowship will prove invaluable to this innovation as well.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-5031530684806036502013-11-22T11:39:00.000-08:002013-11-22T11:39:09.204-08:00Adaptive Learning... Some predictions for the futureJoshua Kim, Director of Learning and Technology for the Master of Health Care Science Program at Dartmouth, has some interesting "intuitions" about the future of adaptive learning in higher education. One that seems most intruiguing is the idea that adaptive platforms and LMS (learning management systems) well merge and become both seamless and ubiquitous. We see, for instance, some features of Moodle that can be used to create a quasi-adaptive experience for students in tools such as the personalized learning designer, but what Moodle offers is still far from a truly adaptive platform. While we may not be there yet, it's a propitious moment to consider the possibilities. What do you see in the crystal ball? <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/5-intuitions-about-adaptive-learning-platforms" target="_blank">Read Kim's blog for more.</a><br />
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<span id="goog_984502650"></span><span id="goog_984502651"></span><br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-47624380564880320762013-11-18T09:15:00.002-08:002013-11-18T14:26:05.790-08:00Sometimes the headline does say it allInside Higher Ed published, "<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/18/studies-question-effectiveness-state-performance-based-funding" target="_blank">Performance Funding Underperforms</a>" identifiying some challenges and shortfalls to performance-based funding for community colleges. Even the CCRC has published a <a href="http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/envisioning-performance-funding-impacts.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> providing a critical analysis of performance funding as it is currently conceived.<br />
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The question remains, what are the implications for developmental education? How do we promote student success without undermining the fundamental purpose and mission of the community college? I believe that the challenge lies in finding a "both/and" solution -- it is not an "either/or" choice between access and success that we must make... but rather a solution that <i>both</i> preserves access for marginalized populations <i>and</i> promotes success that we must endeavor to find. Grassroots, faculty led initiatives, like DIG Co-Lab have the potential to help us do just that.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-7221769805769240332013-11-15T10:07:00.003-08:002013-11-15T10:07:55.400-08:00SoftChalk Workshop today!Just a reminder for the techie-minded -- there will be a SoftChalk workshop today (Friday, November 15) at 1:00 p.m. in CEN 232! Come and learn how to build interactive web-based lessons and activities for your students.<br />
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Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-81214643356271783162013-11-05T10:37:00.001-08:002013-11-05T10:37:31.161-08:00Moodle updates coming!Wow -- there are some really cool updates coming to Moodle at Lane in December! The ones I'm looking forward to include an option for displaying word counts in forums as well as integrated badges. In my classes I provide guidelines for forum posts, including minimum length, so having a word count displayed will be a useful, convenient tool for my students. Badges are a cool concept, and I think it will be great fun to experiment with them -- I anticipate that students will be highly motivated by the prospect of earning badges, and the fact that they can be displayed in a Moodle profile as well as in an individual students Mozilla "backpack" provides for a great deal of flexibility.<br />
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<a href="https://blogs.lanecc.edu/moodle/2013/11/05/moodle-winter-2013-update-core-release-notes/" target="_blank">Learn about other Moodle updates coming to Lane here.</a> Thanks to Kevin Steeves for making this information available and the updates possible!<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-19213441221418883342013-10-29T13:26:00.000-07:002013-10-29T13:26:42.360-07:00Procrastination... What if all students could overcome it?Check out this <a href="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2013/10/07/the-biggest-lesson-from-the-flipped-classroom-may-not-be-about-math/" target="_blank">Chronicle article</a> recounting one university math professor's experience flipping the classroom. Sure -- he learned a great deal about screencasting, but what Robert Talbert found most noteworthy was students' need to manage their time -- to learn about scheduling, calendaring and to somehow not succumb to procrastination. Thanks to <a href="http://warneralane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alice Warner</a> for sending the article!<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-81721502809156101922013-10-23T10:39:00.000-07:002013-10-23T10:39:41.542-07:00"Class-sourcing" AssignmentsIn his article, "<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/10/18/class-sourcing-teaching-strategy-essay" target="_blank">Class-sourcing as a Teaching Strategy</a>," Gleb Tsipursky provides examples of rich multimedia assignments produced collaboratively by teams of his students. Tsipursky's students produced Pinerest boards on topics as wide-ranging as <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/danafdarr/pins/" target="_blank">an analysis of Super Bowl ads</a> to <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/imperialists/art-and-ideologies-of-the-late-19th-century-to-the/" target="_blank">Art and Ideologies of the 19th and 20th Centuries</a> through his "<a href="http://www.glebtsipursky.com/teaching/classsourcing/classsourced-assignment-pinterest-project" target="_blank">class-sourced pinterest project.</a>" This assignment could be adapted for use in developmental education. I believe that such project work provides students with a rich opportunity to develop information literacy as well as digital literacy skills while focusing on specific content -- students would engage in the critical process of identifying, evaluating, and citing sources as they work to choose and cite resources to pin.<br />
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Imagine developmental writing students, for instance, working collaboratively to create Pinterest boards on compound sentences or on specific thematic content such as climate change or social inequity in higher education, all the while practicing the writing process skills of editing or revision as they succinctly analyze and summarize their "pins" within Pinterest's constraints of 500 characters or less. This approach is consistent with the ideal of a liberal approach to education, building students' skills to engage in a critical debate and analysis of ideas before they synthesize them for a broader audience -- a set of skills that could even facilitate students future work in the emerging field of digital humanities.<br />
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<br />Adriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15535032264183077443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593755607202341491.post-42678995648592846512013-10-22T10:42:00.000-07:002013-10-22T10:42:32.270-07:00SharingIn the spirit of the Digital Co-Lab Faculty Fellowship, I have shared a shell for my WR080 course in our Moodle collaboration space for DIG. It contains all sorts of resources including quizzes, readings, writing assignments, instructional materials focused on paragraph writing and grammar -- all thematically organized. Unit themes include nutrition, communication, literature and descriptive writing, and information literacy. I have also created and compiled a set of <a href="http://media.lanecc.edu/als/writing_prep/writing_prep_modules/" target="_blank">online grammar modules</a> for student use. Students can find these on the <a href="http://lanecc.edu/als" target="_blank">Academic Learning Skills website</a>. While they serve multifarious purposes, any student can try the practice activities to brush up their skills before or after taking the placement test, and teachers can use them as instructional resources.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo by Manuel Burgos</td></tr>
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