[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-07 Thread valerie
Hi Nellie I'm taking a page from your book :o) Promote, promote, promote. At the outset, the intention was to encourage WikiEducators to participate in an informal but somewhat structured series of discussions that covered the topics in a faculty development course that we offer at school. Using

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-06 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Valerie, I love discussions if I think they are going somewhere. I am not sure where this is going? Do you have a plan in mind? Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/Us

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-06 Thread valerie
Thanks John It is just amazing what is being developed and shared! Thanks for providing yet another example. ..Valerie On Mar 5, 2:08 am, john stampe wrote: > I just read an interesting article on the use of active learning for teaching > natural hazard management using a web-GIS application

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-06 Thread valerie
Thanks Nellie It is interesting to see the range of environments that work for us as individuals and for our roles as instructors, facilitators, formal learners and informal learners. You are in a unique situation where you and your students are comfortable and confident enough to be working "wi

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-05 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Valerie, After using Moodle for a number of years with 2 of my won websites sitting dormant, I prefer to use Wikieductor for discussions. I simply dread going into the Moodle these days. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikied

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-05 Thread john stampe
@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:32:37 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12) Valerie, I am finding Wikieducator an excellent tool for students to collaborate and organize their written and oral projects. My grade 11 students from

[WikiEducator] Re: OTL09 3. Encourage active/engaged learning (Feb 26 - Mar 12)

2009-03-03 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Valerie, I am finding Wikieducator an excellent tool for students to collaborate and organize their written and oral projects. My grade 11 students from Israel have just finished an international book sharing project on Night by Elie Wiesel on the Holocaust with a high school in the U.S. The same s