Archive for category Teaching and Learning
Moodle 2.0 Tutorials: Setting up a Quiz
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, CAETL, CRDC, Moodle FAQ, Moodle LMS, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, video on February 7th, 2011
Moodle has the ability to create robust quizzes that can be used to assess your students. Quizzes can be written in a lab during class time, as a scheduled test within the UofL testing centre, or as take home quiz. It becomes your preference as to where and how to test your students, but the quiz module within moodle can help facilitate your quiz, and can be modified to meet most of your testing preferences.
If you will be using the testing centre, your exam must be booked in by the CRDC before the exam date.
The instructions in this tutorial will cover how to add a quiz activity, and will cover all the attributes that can be modified within the quiz settings. If you have already created a quiz and are looking to add questions, please see the question bank resources and the question type resources.
Video in the Classsroom
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, CRDC, Moodle LMS, Social Media, Social Networking, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, Video FAQ on January 27th, 2011
With the advent of much smaller and simpler video and audio recorders capturing course content has become much easier and accessible. Here at the CRDC we have 2 Pocket Cameras available to Faculty who would like to use video in their class. Some faculty have used these to capture guest lectures so that students can access the content at a later date. Some have recorded introductions to course topics and sections so students can have a summary of information to be covered in upcoming classes. Where self evaluation is important student presentations can be captured and released to individual students. Whatever their purpose the videos can be uploaded to our video server and embedded into the U of L Learning Management System for easy access to students.
If you would like more info on how you can use video in your class please contact the CRDC.
Moodle Migration: Mark Pijl Zieber
Posted by craig.brouwer in CAETL, CRDC, Moodle LMS, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, video on January 24th, 2011
Fall 2011 the University of Lethbridge is going live with their new Learning Management System, Moodle. Mark Pijl Zieber is currently involved in the Moodle migration prototyping his current courses.
Online Course Design Webinar
Posted by todd.doucette in Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching on January 18th, 2011
Virtual Challenge: Creating Quality E-Courses
Tuesday, January 25, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm at the CRDC(L1126)
There’s a lot more to building online courses than digitizing text and adding a few videos. Online course designers are learning more about how to incorporate quick assessments that personalize the learning experience for students, how to keep students’ interest with video and simulations, and how to integrate gaming into their courses. The lessons being learned by course designers are significantly changing the way a successful online course is created for today’s students.
Presenters:
Greg Marks, Director of Product Development, Michigan Virtual University
Debi Crabtree, Coordinator of the Hamilton County Virtual Schools, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Moderator:
Michelle Davis, Senior Writer, Education Week Digital Directions
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CRDC & CAETL Open House
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, Audience Response, CAETL, Collaboration, copyright, CRDC, Events, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching on November 16th, 2010
The CRDC & CAETL invite Faculty and Staff to our Open House. Drop in to L1126 anytime between 1 – 4 pm on Dec. 10, 2010 and enjoy some wine and cheese while learning how we can help you. Hope to see everyone there!
IT: Classroom Technology Training: Computer
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, CRDC, FAQ, Instructors, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, video on October 7th, 2010
This video provides instruction on how to start up the classroom computer, log in, and access your files.
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IT: Classroom Technology Training: Crestron Controller
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, CRDC, FAQ, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, video on October 7th, 2010
This video provides instruction on how to use the Crestron touch panel to control the technology in the classroom. It covers the set up and use of the Data Projector, Audio System and Microphones, and DVD and VCR controls.
CAETL Talking About Teaching – Working with Students in Co-ops, Applied Studies & Independent Studies
Posted by admin in CAETL, Events, Talking About Teaching, Teaching and Learning on September 29th, 2010
This will be a panel led discussion with audience participation. All faculty and graduate students are welcome.
We will explore what it is like for faculty to facilitate and work with students in Co-ops, Applied Studies and Independent Studies. The panel will share their perspective on the benefits of working in these types of courses and also share their perspective of why they feel these programs are beneficial to student learning.
Date: Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Time: 2-4 PM
Place: AH100 (Andy’s Place)
Discussion Panel: Jasminn Berteotti, Jennifer Mather, HJ Wieden, and Ian MacLachlan
For more information about the Talking About Teaching events and about CAETL, please visit our website: www.uleth.ca/caetl
Webinar – WebCT to CampusCruiser LMS: A Migration Success Story
Posted by todd.doucette in Events, Moodle LMS, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching on September 17th, 2010
If you’re looking for advice on how to make an easy transition from your current LMS to a new one, you can read countless blogs and articles spouting broad generalizations or you can ask people whose institutions actually get the job done. To better understand the challenges surrounding the migration of college courses, we will speak with college instructional designers and faculty who have designed and implemented a course migration path from their previous LMS to CampusCruiser LMS.
If you are planning a review of your schools LMS in the months to come, you owe it to yourself to join this live webinar to hear technologists from Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) as they share the results from their course conversion from WebCT to CampusCruiser LMS and identify what really works when migrating to a new LMS.
Presented by: Dr. Christopher Ostwinkle, Director of Distance Learning, Northeast Iowa Community College
Moderated by: Linda Briggs, contributing editor, Campus Technology
Webinar can be viewed in the CRDC/CAETL Learning Lab (L1126) Tuesday, September 28 from 12 noon until 1:00 pm
Prezi: Not your mother’s PowerPoint
Posted by craig.brouwer in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, CAETL, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Teaching, Uncategorized on January 25th, 2010
This tool has the potential to allow more freedom in classroom instruction than your standard presentation tools like PowerPoint of Keynote. Through a non-linear approach Prezi could help foster more open discussion and better engage your students.
Here is more info from their Website:
Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.
It’s visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.
Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slide show? It’s been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won’t fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool.