This semester for Digital Institute, the Center for Distance Education was pleased to sponsor two presenters on themes of great interest to our group: Joan Hughes (University of Texas at Austin) spoke on “Diffusion of Transformative Technology Integration: What is transformative technology integration and how can I (meaning you!) support it at UT Arlington?“, and [...]
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Digital Institute Spring 2010
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Active Learning, Distance Education, Multimedia, Resources, Workshops
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Online Translators
April 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Resources, Tools, Web 2.0
Online translation is quite different from traditional translation. I note the tools I am using: Google Translator Toolkit (you need a gmail account to get on), Google Translator in two forms, Leo, the online dictionary containing a grammar site, dictionary definitions, and a corpus that I am using, and http://www.google.de (to [...]
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Course Contracts in Web Classes
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Composition, Distance Education, Resources
A few years ago I read an article about how professors were using course contracts in their live classes. The argument is that having students sign a course contract outlining course policies and expectations helps to avert discipline problems in class, and provides faculty with a firm ground from which to react when problems arise [...]
Creating a Virtual Presence For Your Students
March 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Resources
At some point, I do plan on getting to blogging about the future of education and the new vision that is emerging in the Ed Tech filed for changes to the Learning Management System. But for now I am going to continue on with the practical ideas – things that current online instructors can use [...]
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Creating Cuaderna Vía
March 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Authoring, Composition, Free, Resources, Tools
Last summer, Chris Conway and Ignacio Ruiz-Perez approached me about helping them with a new idea they had – a Spanish-language literary journal for UT Arlington students called Cuaderna Vía. They already had an issue’s worth of content, but needed help producing the tangible journal.
Over those months, we designed and produced a print edition of [...]
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Adding Value and Battling Staleness in Online Classes
February 22nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Resources, Tools, Web 2.0
Think back to some of the best courses you took during college. What made those courses so great for you? Well, other than the ones that were an easy A – what made them interesting to you over other courses? Probably one factor was an interesting instructor. Many instructors like to just read from the [...]
Digital Texts in the Composition Classroom, Feb 25th
February 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Authoring, Composition, Free, Multimedia, Resources, Tools, Video, Web 2.0, Workshops, YouTube
Early adopters find ways to teach complex concepts, methods and software flying by the seat of our pants to be sure, but buoyed by much early trial and error experience acquired from having taught ourselves. For someone like me, whose field is digital media, I have made that seat-of-the-pants stuff my specialty, and, as a [...]
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