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How are wikis being used in teaching?

CCLE and Moodle

Articles and Other Resources 3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction – Ruth Reynard 02/11/09 Wiki as a Teaching Tool – Parker & Chao, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects – Volume 3, 2007 Teaching, Learning, and other uses for Wikis ...

teaching
wiki

Second Life (SL) and Education

Applications/Software

Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world developed by the Linden Labs. Basic accounts are free and provide you with an avatar. Once you have an avatar, you need to download SL software and go through orientation. See system requirements: secondlife.com/All objec...

3D virtual world
MUVE
Second Life
avatar
computer graphics
computers in education
immersive learning
librarians
libraries
multi-user virtual environment
online identities
shared virtual environments
teaching
virtual reality
virtual worlds

UCLA Library Research Guides

UCLA Resources

UCLA librarians create research guides for classes and other purposes. I created a guide for TAs to help them learn to incorporate information literacy instruction into their curricula and assignments, and I used it as a supplement and replacement for attendin...

Information Researching
UCLA Library
course guides
information literacy
learning
librarians
libraries
library research
research
teaching

Innovative Teaching Ideas

Useful Links

There are probably many other collections of innovating teaching ideas and examples. Please add them to this page as you come across them. MERLOT ELIXR is a collection of digital case stories about innovation in teaching. http://elixr.merlot.org/case-stories...

teaching
teaching tools
technology in teaching

Free tool for doing polls without clickers

Useful Links

There is a free tool called PollEverywhere.com which can be used in classes and presentations. This is a web based tool and it uses text messaging from students’ cell phones. (polleveryhere.com)A power point presentation by Michael Posner from Villanova on u...

clickers
instruction
polls
presentationware
teaching

EduBlog Awards Blog

Useful Links

According to their site http://edublogawards.com/ “The purpose of the Edublog awards is to promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media. The best aspects include that it creates a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how...

instructional tech
social media
teaching

Has anyone tried Xerte Online Tookit?

Applications/Software

Has anyone tried “Xerte Online Toolkit?”http://www.xerte.org.uk/ It’s a tool for making it easy to create learning objects in either Flash or HTML. “Xerte allows authors with no programming skills to build elearning activities through a simple browser interfa...

SCORM
authoring
instruction
learning objects
teaching

Where can I find interviews with faculty about teaching with technology?

UCLA Resources

An underutilized resource on campus is this collection of interviews with faculty about teaching with technology. http://www.oid.ucla.edu/edtech/interviews/Please add other sources both here at UCLA and elsewhere.The UW-Madison Educational Innovation Initiativ...

teaching
interviews
technology