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Our School is starting to share teaching resources

Hello, My name is Neil Stephenson and I work at the Calgary Science School as the Professional Development and Outreach Coordinator. I wanted to share a resource I've been developing called the Connect Blog. You can access this site by clicking here. On this site, our school is beginning to share teaching resources, as well as reflections from teachers on their professional development. This blog has two purposes: 1) A… Continue

Added by Neil Stephenson on December 11, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The Humble Storyboard is almost 80 years old. Is it time for its retirement?

I wonder if we can give the ol’ storyboard a ‘makeover’? I think ‘MS Word’ is by far the most extensively used in developing online course storyboards. Connie has a very useful section, “Storyboards for eLearning” on her site for those who wish to pick up some tips. Can we come up with a tool that offers all the better features? For those who are interested in my ideas, please click on http://blog.commlabindia… Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on December 10, 2009 at 4:06am — No Comments

Assessment FOR Learning - Philosophy v. Procedures

This was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on 12/9/09. ************************************************************************************ I was in a workshop today with members of our Central Office and teachers and administrators from each school in our school system. The purpose of the workshop was to apply AFL to our division's AFL endeavors. Today we assessed each school… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on December 9, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Life is Short – Read More Books. What are you reading in 2010?

Talking forward our discussion “Is there any end to learning? It was gratifying to see that all the successful people believed that in order to be successful and grow; you should adopt a habit of Life Long Learning. Here is a list of books and audio CDs that I completed this year. http://www.commlabuniversity.com/blog/reading-in-2010/ Can you help me compile a list of Books and CDs that I should study this 201… Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on December 9, 2009 at 3:14am — No Comments

What did you learn about learning in 2009?

Did we learn anything new about learning this year? Our personal discoveries, our ‘aha’ experiences about what promotes and hinders learning would be wonderful to share at the end of the year. I learnt that humility, teaching and silence enhance learning, whereas ego retards it. Those of you who want to read our entire experience, click on http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning/learning-in-2009 Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on December 8, 2009 at 4:01am — No Comments

AFL - IT'S ABOUT STUDENTS TAKING OWNERSHIP OF LEARNING - Practical Examples

This post was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on December 2, 2009.

This post is excerpted from an article written by Stephen Chappuis and Richard Stiggins. It was originally published in Educational Leadership in 2002 and was then reprinted in the book, Assessment FOR Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders. While… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on December 2, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Can Product Training be ‘born again’ with Second Life (SL)?

Can SL change the way product training or sales training is done now? Will its three dimensional (3D), visually intensive and information rich learning environment offer us a powerful medium to address these critical training needs? For those who are interested to read my impressions, please click on http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning/product-training-born-as-second-life Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on December 2, 2009 at 4:51am — No Comments

Is there any end to learning?

Would like to hear your experiences about how you used learning to achieve greater heights in your career. For those who are interested to see my opinion, please click on http://www.commlabuniversity.com/blog/speed-of-learning/ Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on November 19, 2009 at 3:50am — No Comments

How can I have more budgets for learning and training?

A successful organization whether it’s 100 people company or a Global Fortune company always focuses on learning and training, because it wants to keep up with the change and competition. These organizations have fixed budgets for training every year. When we talk to our clients they say that they want a lot of training to be developed but as they are running out of budgets, they shift some of the training to the next year. Now the big question, are these companies not focused on the training?… Continue

Added by Ayesha Habeeb Omer on November 18, 2009 at 4:33am — No Comments

Assessment FOR Learning - Examples of using rubrics

This was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on November 12, 2009. Rubrics are a great way to help students learn from their mistakes and to assess their own knowledge (#5 and #6 of the 6 Key AFL Ideas). In the typical high school setting, rubr… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on November 12, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Assessment FOR Learning - Practical ideas for more frequent assessment to enhance learning

This post was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on October 30, 2009. As a teacher, have you ever experienced anything similar to the following scenario: You teach your course content over a period of time. The day before your big test you have a review activity of some sort. The review activity is a good one. It goes well, but during the activity you realize that your students don’t know the material all that well. Consid… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on October 31, 2009 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

An AFL review strategy that can be used by any teacher in any content area

This was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on October 22, 2009. As I have come to comprehend better what Assessment FOR Learning truly means and how its principles can be applied, I find myself regularly thinking about how I would do things differently if I were still in the classroom. After recently observing Paola Brinkley, one of our… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on October 22, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Does AFL lead to grade inflation?

This post originally appeared on Assessment FOR Learning on October 12, 2009. A criticism of Assessment FOR Learning is that along with it comes pressure to make sure that students’ grades increase. In other words, some have been concernerd that AFL might lead to grade inflation. I would hope that no school would ever encourage grade inflation while it encourages its teachers to try AFL techniques. I think that that the concern over… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on October 12, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Assessment FOR Learning - more than just letting tests replace quizzes

This post was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on October 7, 2009. For more information on AFL, visit AFL at salemafl.ning.com. I plan to create a series of posts that will help teachers better understand AFL so that they can apply AFL ideas into their classrooms. One way to do this is to define what AFL isn’t. AFL isn’t replacing quiz grades with test grades.… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on October 8, 2009 at 5:18am — No Comments

3 Perspectives on an Assessment FOR Learning example - Administrator, Parent, Student

This post was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning on October 4, 2009. For more information on AFL, visit AFL at salemafl.ning.com. I’d like to share a recent AFL experience from three different perspectives – that of a school administrator, that of a parent, and that of a student. My daughter is a freshman taking Algebra 2. While she typically does very well in… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on October 8, 2009 at 5:16am — No Comments

Online resources for learning and teaching

Online resources for learning any subject As we know there is no dearth of inspirational and expert teachers for whatever skill we want to learn. They are very much out there near us. But it has been common experience that at times they are just hard to find. We simply look around and fail for the suggestion come through our acquaintances. It might be because, we don't have such easy option to explore and reach out to them. We always want to make an informed decision in our potential Teacher sea… Continue

Added by Ambrish Prasad on September 12, 2009 at 8:01pm — No Comments

FastCompany-How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Anya Kamenetz Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing. ......The online University of the People, founded by Shai Reshef, who made his fortune in for-profit education, signed up its first class this fall -- 300 students from nearly 100 countries. While it has yet to get accreditation, the not-for-profit plans to offer bachelor's degrees in business and com… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on September 1, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Effective online learning

As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach the student the process of learning also. The chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." is very apt in explaining this. We need to help our students to develop an effective l… Continue

Added by Mark Jacobs on August 21, 2009 at 2:30am — 4 Comments

Different ways to answer such questions as “Why do we have to learn this? Why do we need to know Biology?

We have all heard the question, Why do we need to know this? When will I ever use this? I have collected different views on how to answer these questions I found this but it gives one way of answering this questions, for any class: "It's important to learn about many things because right now, you can't tell ‘which’ ones you'll need. You're still changing and growing as a person, and it might be that this one thing I'm teaching turns out to change your life. If you do your best to learn this n… Continue

Added by Christina on August 14, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Accredited Online Schools Add New Horizons to your Career

Online education needs no introduction today. They have been very much in the limelight for being highly flexible to suit everybody’s needs and timings. Getting an online degree is very advantageous and one must consider it to be a part of their career plan. There are so many accredited online schools and accredited online degrees available today tha… Continue

Added by Akash Aggarwal on August 12, 2009 at 4:32am — No Comments

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