Showing posts with label active learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label active learning. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2009

Article of the Week

Hi Folks

This is the article of the week - Do Millennials Really Study The Way that Many Advocates Claim they Do?

This article presenta a very interesting point of view (backed by research) that not all students are into Web 2.0 tools and what else academics claim they use to help them study. Read it as way for you to reflect on the importance of having good learning designs as opposed to using Web 2.0 tools to solve our problems! Click the link below to read this article and share your thoughts on it by hitting the comment button.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mkm5zz42jlq/kennedy.pdf

Monday, January 5, 2009

Useful Stuff - Active Learning Using Powerpoint

Hi Folks

Do check out this useful online course created by a professor from the University of Minnesota and how Active Learning can be done using Powerpoint. No more DEATH by PPT!
Have a look and see if you can pick up anything useful and start a threat of comments going!

The link is as follows:

http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/index.html