TED Talks organized in a growing Google Spreadsheet

Google Spreadsheet updated regularly with TED Talks (1204 at this posting) at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKzpC8gYBmTcGpHbFlILThBSzhmZkRhNm8yYllsWGc&hl=en#gid=0

Google Plus Hangouts on Air feature now available to all users:

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.ca/2012/05/google-plus-hangouts-on-air-feature-now.html

Accessibility Links

Shared in the MOOC this week by Allistair Duggin:

Screen Reader/Accessibility Resources:

http://alistairduggin.co.uk/blog/screenreader-resources/

Learning Styles Don't Exist Video & FAQ

Interesting info gleaned from this week's Bonk MOOC:

Learning Styles FAQ from Daniel Willingham:

http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html

Learning Styles Don't Exist Video:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2NTUk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused solely on the brain basis of learning and memory. Today, all of his research concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 education. He writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column for American Educator magazine, and is an Associate Editor of Mind, Brain, and Education

Snyder's Instructional Design Theory to Guide the Creation of Online Learning Communities for Adults

I have been reviewing some recent literature for a paper I am writing, and I thought this article was particularly interesting:

Snyder, M. M. (2009). Instructional-design theory to guide the creation of online learning communities for adults. TechTrends, 53(1), 48-56.

It's available on ProQuest Central through the Hunt Library databases.

It focuses on the instructional strategies, rather than on the design process, which is unusual and needed.

Here's the theory model (click on each one for a larger view):

TedEd and Flipping Videos into Lessons

TedEd and Flipping Videos into Lessons 

 The Chronicle reported today that TedEd has created a tool for teachers and IDs to turn any YouTube video into a lesson by adding quizzes, open-ended questions and more. It measures participation and learner performance

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Interesting response to TedEd (especially the comments): http://teachpaperless.blogspot.ca/2012/04/problem-with-ted-ed.html

Interesting finds from my 2012 Bb ECP Reviews

Similarly to the Q's Query doc for student issues, the BlendedSchools.net courses have a link on the course menu, hidden from students but available to instructors called "Report an Error". It takes them to a page that looks like this: http://blendedschools.net/Includes/curricuerror.html

Bb Student Help Site
http://help.blackboard.com/student/index.htm


BSN (Blended Schools Network) organization: They have a tab called BSNtube...sort of a LO repository for video...

https://blendedschools.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_5_1