Greetings, folks! In my culminating post for CET, I’m excited to present to you a short feature documentary we just finished this week featuring the brilliant muralist, Jeff Zimmermann. As a self-taught painter with only a Painting 101 course to his credit, Jeff’s murals are an indelible part of the …
I know I promised everyone my top three uses and how-tos for Qualtrics today, but I am bumping that post to next week in order to promote the collaboration between the College of Education’s CET, The Writing Center and The Career Center for our CoE Professional e-Portfolio workshop on Tuesday, …
Linda Harasim, in her recently published book, Learning Theories and Online Technologies, wrote that “active learning as it is defined and practiced falls short in addressing social issues and real problems” (p. 81). She suggested that, unless pushed to think beyond the context in which what they already know exists, …
You can fill in the blank (and are welcome to share your response on the CET blog). I have two responses I want to share. First, developing an online course is like learning to ride a bicycle (cliché-ish, I know). If you don’t know how to do it, it looks …
If you haven’t checked out SITE’s Forum yet, the screenshot above will give you a quick glimpse of the various categories we’ve created to organize threads. The concept was that Art, Technology and Activism could be integrated into every lesson in the classroom-sort of like a course I took here …
Howdy! My name is Faiz Razi, and I’m the SITE Technological Coordinator and Forum Moderator. I’ve been teaching Math, English and Science for the past 18 years. I am an accomplished composer and artist, an organizer with over 600 events on the books, a black belt and an unabashed cultural …
by Kate Sonka No matter what the origins of a non-profit are, or what they seek to do, so many rely on social media. The proliferation of (free!) platforms like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, etc. makes it much easier for non-profits like the two I explored below, Pencils of Promise …
by Joe Miller Animoto is a multi-media slideshow generator that automatically creates creates concise, animated, and totally unique slideshow presentations of your own photos and videos. (It even let’s you select a song to accompany it!) We found this new site to be a great potential teaching tool, so we …
Last year, I led a training about Widgets and Homepages in D2L. One of our rock star faculty, Jennifer Mata, attended and then did some fantastic things with the homepage of her course: Would you like your course homepage to look as stellar as Dr. Mata’s? If so, the two …
So there you are, sitting on a veranda, sipping mint juleps and wondering what the heck you are going to do the rest of the summer when the bourbon runs out and your neighbor discovers you on her property. Option 1, you can get your own veranda and switch over …