May
21
4faculty.org
May 21, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Contains self-directed modules with times (usually 1-2 hours) that already are approved to count for flex. You can preview the modules at http://4faculty.org/public/siteindex.htm , but you’ll need to get an account (free) and sign in to get credit.
Modules include:
* 101 History and Mission of Community Colleges
* 103 Characteristics of Community Colleges and Their Students
* 104 Preparing for the 1st Day of Class
* 105 Building Your Syllabus
* 106 Assessment
* 107 Grades and Testing
* 108 Effective Class Management Skills
* 109 How People Learn
* 110 Learning Theories
* 111 Approaches to Teaching
* 112 Technology in the Classroom
* 113 Technology and Distance Education
* 114 Legal and Ethical Issues in the Digital Information Age
* 115 Increasing Effective Communication and Student Resiliency
* 116 Helping Your Students
* 117 Student Support Services
* 118 Focusing on Diverse Needs
* 119 How College Governance Affects You
* 120 Surviving the Journey
May
9
Tutorials: Excel, Word, Outlook, Windows
May 9, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
All of these are from the MIStupid website:
- Microsoft Excel Tutorials
- Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorials
- Microsoft Outlook Tutorials
- Microsoft Word Tutorials
- Microsoft Windows Tutorials
May
6
How to embed video in Moodle
May 6, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
From Kevin Boutelle at Oswego County, NY, BOCES program:
How to embed video in Moodle
May
5
Testing ratings
May 5, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Trying stars.
This uses a bit of code from getuserfeedback.com. You can refresh the code at their site to get a different ratings code for each post.
Mar
27
Voki
March 27, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
You can create a “virtual you” that talks to your students. It’s called a Voki.
Mar
25
Join our authors and contribute to PDP’s blog!
March 25, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
There are several levels of blog users — please email Lisa and she’ll set you up to join our blogging crew. Then you can post cool tutorials and other things you find online that could be useful to faculty!
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Administrator
The Administrator is the top role and has access to all of the administration features in our Content Management System. Right now Lisa M. Lane and Pilar Hernandez are the Administrators.
Editor
An Editor is able to write, manage, and publish their own posts as well as manage other’s posts.
Author
An Author is able to write, manage, and publish their own posts. Right now PDP subcommittee members are Authors.
Contributor
The Contributor is able to write and manage their own posts; however they can not publish them. This is the recommended role for someone new to blogging who wants their posts checked first.
Subscriber
The role of Subscriber is able to read comments, place comments on your site, and receive newsletters. ALL MiraCosta faculty should be subscribers!
Mar
25
A useful podcast
March 25, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Veronica Diaz, Instructional Technology Manager for the Maricopa Community College District and Laura Blankenship, Senior Instructional Technologist at Bryn Mawr College discuss instructional technologies (22 minutes).
Mar
8
Embedded video
March 8, 2008 | Tagged maps | Leave a Comment
We were practicing here to make sure it’s possible to embed video in this blog.
Mar
8
Hello World!
March 8, 2008 | Tagged messages | Leave a Comment
This is the traditional greeting for new blog. Edublogs is based on WordPress, one of the most robust blogging platforms on the market. You can control all content, write posts, post flash and video, manage comments, create blogroll links to other professional development blogs, add plug-ins (we’ll need one to prevent spamming), etc. You can also tag posts for easy reference, and create categories to sort posts.
