PowerPoint Tool

Here's a tip from Paige: a nifty tool to jazz up PowerPoint presentations:

http://www.authorstream.com/desktop/

Online Bb Training

Archived Fall 2010 Sessions
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-1913846_4

Archived Spring 2011 Sessions
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-38588169_4

Bb How-To Basics
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-1155477_4

Strengths of Online Learning

This link provides supportive data from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the Strengths of Online Learning. http://ow.ly/5HZys

National Science Digital Library Loses Funding

Below is a link to an article from Inside Higher Ed indicating that the funding for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) will be defunded beginning 2012. Another tragedy of reduced funding in education.

http://goo.gl/Cx81Z

Blackboard Gradebook

Paige Brooks-Jeffiers authored this great post with suggestions for novel ways of using/setting up the Bb Gradebook:

http://blog.blackboard.com/blackboard-higher-ed-blog/four-effective-uses-of-the-blackboard-grade-center

Khan Academy

Below is the URL to the Khan Academy which provides more than 2,100 free videos on a variety of subject areas.  You can login using a Google Account.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Summer Webinars

From Clovis Perry...


I just completed a wonderful free webinar on “Disruptive Innovators” sponsored by Next Generation Learning Challenges. The URL below takes you to the free webinars. Today’s webinar will be archived.

http://nextgenlearning.org/the-community/events

Also, Louis Soares, today’s speaker has written a wonderful paper where he posits on “How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education”. The URL to his paper is http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/pdf/disrupting_college.pdf

In addition, the new 2011 Horizon Report is ready for review at the following URL. This paper posits emerging technologies that are likely to have an enormous impact on teaching and learning in the next five years.

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report.pdf


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