Teaching to a Classroom With Online Participants

Amy Crook and Travis Crook share tips for simultaneously teaching to a classroom and online participants . To keep the online students engaged, Crook and Crook suggest that they be given roles as:

• chat moderators or discussion leaders
• breakout room participants completing a presentation
• creators of resources with interactive tools
• searchers
• secretaries, recording discussion, conclusions, and summarizing

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Teaching Tips

The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a collection of "Two Minute Video Tips " prepared by experienced university teachers.

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Copyright and Developing Curriculum

Stacey Patton has written about the case of Karen McArthur and her stolen course . McArthur created a course shell or template which she used in her own teaching. She was appalled to find that other professors copied her work and taught her course without telling her, even including experiences from her journey to Europe.

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Internet Safety Poster for Educators

" Keeping Kids Safe Online" is a graphic recommended by Tech&Learning.

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Learning Management Systems

Anastasia Salter examines open-source, low-complexity tools like Wordpress as an alternative to large commercial learning management systems such as Blackboard.

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ShareMyLesson.com

ShareMyLesson.com offers over a quarter-million lesson plans, prompts and images developed and shared by educators in the American Federation of Teachers.

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