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Reassessing Groupwork

Posted on: Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in: eLearning

I recently had an interesting interaction with one of my son’s 7th grade teachers that reminded me how variable is the world of assessment with regard to group activities. My son just participated in a group activity for a grade. It involved middle school boys and singing a song. Needless to say, it didn’t go [...]

Blogs in my course? Why?

Posted on: Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 in: eLearning

Whether teaching an online course for instructors or attending conference workshops, mention web 2.0 tools to online instructors and I get a wide range of responses ranging from the quite positive to the rather skeptical. At the skeptical end of the spectrum I find that there is often a failure to fully understand terms and [...]