Misc
The Importance of PRE-flection
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Learning skills is a process largely based on expectation failure — we do something expecting a certain result, we get an unexpected result, we stop and analyze why we were off in our estimation and try again. It’s a practice that applies as much to doing complex math as learning to play guitar.
Roger Schank, [...]
Math Questioning in Primary School Context
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Great video shared by Tom Woodward of effective questioning style by a skilled primary school teacher. I think this might be a great resource for Education students to analyze, but I also think it’s neat for any educator to watch.
Math Questioning from Tom Woodward on Vimeo.
This one is great too:
Refining Solutions from Tom Woodward on [...]
George Siemens on Educational Content
Monday, March 15th, 2010This seemed very relevant to thinking about the idea of the Keene State Learning and Teaching Commons as we go forward. Quoted at length from a much longer article, but the whole article is well worth reading.
George doesn’t provide easy answers here about content, and I’m finding as I think through the KLTC I [...]
AAC&U Video on Keene’s Integrative Studies Program
Monday, March 15th, 2010This is not new, but I’ve found that a number people haven’t seen it, so I’m posting it here. It is an outline of what we are aiming for in the the ISP, and a nice introduction to those wondering what the program is about.
Using Scirus and/or Scholar to Search for Scholarly Web Resources
Monday, March 15th, 2010You can use Google Scholar or Elsevier’s Scirus to do a quick scan of scholarly, web available literature. While these tools are not as comprehensive as library databases, they provide quick access to hundreds of millions of articles, which should be enough to get one started on a research project.
Each engine has its own [...]
A Sample Assessment Plan for Project-Based Learning
Friday, March 12th, 2010This is designed primarily for K-12, but it is not essentially different from what one might use for a college course. It provides a method to map out how students will be assessed, and what phase, and has a helpful list of types of assessment typical to PBL.
It’s pretty lightweight, the sort of thing that [...]
Want to use Creative Commons Licensing? Here’s a Short Guide.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010The new National Educational Technology Plan is out, and one of the things it singles out as important to educational progress is open licensing.
We agree. People participating in the Keene Learning and Teaching Commons are encouraged to openly license their material. Creative Commons licensing is a great way to do that. The document below [...]
Do You Have Checklists You Use? Would You Share Them With Us?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Prompted by a recent post by Jon Udell, I’ve been thinking about checklists over the last few days. Checklists, we are finding out, can be incredibly powerful things for any procedure one does repeatedly. How powerful? Consider the story of Peter Provonost, who wondered what would happen if ICU units compiled checklists, instead of relying [...]
Keene Students Publish In Chemistry Journal
Friday, March 5th, 2010From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry, via Campus News:
I am pleased to inform you that the work of Anna P. McLean (Biology ‘11), Elizabeth A. Neuhardt (Chemistry ‘10), and Joel P. St. John (Chemistry ‘11) has been published in the international scientific journal Transition Metal Chemistry. The link to the online version of our paper, “Benchtop synthesis and crystal structure determination [...]
CELT to work on FERPA Guidance / Syllabus Boilerplate
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010In collaboration with IT and the Registrar’s Office, CELT will be developing some boilerplate text for faculty to use on their syllabi regarding student FERPA rights.
Syllabi should probably always have some FERPA guidance on them, but the situation is particularly important to classes using Web 2.0 technology, where encouraging students to cultivate a public presence [...]
Creative Commons
