http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 13:38:45 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 13:38:45 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=335105 A teaching resource for digital literacy, stimulus for story telling and creativity that is FREE to download. It has been developed in partnership between BradField and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and its schools.Inanimate Alice the multi award-winning interactive audio-visual narrative from new-media production house the BradField Company (BradField) has been identified by Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) as delivering compelling new media suitable for an education audience. Seen by over 1 million viewers (estimate), it is an aid to creativity in the classroom, assisting in story telling and literacy and can be a free and major contribution to the creative curriculum that has been welcomed by teachers accessing it. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=418614 Teaching and Learning Online portion of the PBL-Online site. Here you will find materials designed to guide the planning and instruction of online courses in Project Based Learning. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=699048 This course, “Designing an Exemplary Course” will be led by Blackboard's Exemplary Course Directors and Catalyst Award winning course designers with the assistance of the CourseSites team. Our goal is to empower you to design courses that reflect best practices for designing, engaging, assessing, and supporting learners in blended and online learning environments. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=699046 “Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success” will be led by Dr. Curtis Bonk, with the assistance of the CourseSites team, and will focus on empowering you to increase student achievement and success in blended and online learning environments. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383044 This ten-session graduate-level course will equip participants with an awareness of: the barriers presented by traditional print instructional materials; an understanding of the importance of flexible and accessible learning resources; pertinent Special Education and Civil Rights legislation; Copyright Law; national, state, and local systems of materials acquisition and classroom use.Within the framework of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), the course focus is on customizing materials to address individual differences following three core principles:1. multiple means of representation to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge2. multiple means of expression to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know3. multiple means of engagement to tap into learners' interests, challenge them appropriately, and motivate them to learn http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383046 This ten-session graduate-level course is designed to acquaint elementary and secondary stakeholders with an understanding of how to prepare accessible instuctional materials for students with print impairments.As members of IEP teams, parents, regular and special educators, administrators, and related service personnel must make vitally important decisions regarding the acquisition and use of assistive technology tools and instructional materials in specialized formats to ensure that students can participate fully in the general curriculum. This course will equip participants with the information and skills to:* Evaluate the accessibility of digital files,* Create accessible digital files,* Convert print documents and electronic files to other specialized formats,* Recognize and devise strategies to overcome barriers to information access,* Assist IEP teams and students to select appropriate assistive technology tools for materials production and information access, and* Advise IEP teams regarding the selection, acquisition, preparation, and effective use of classroom materials in specialized formats. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=368950 From the website: ASL University is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Language students, instructors, interpreters, and parents of deaf children. Feel free to use the various lessons and resources for self-study. There is no need to register or pay (unless you want documentation to fulfill high school, college, or continuing education course requirements). If you are a teacher, I give you permission to use the lessons to teach your in-person classes. Enjoy! --Dr. Bill Vicars http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=409600 These two online modules introduce the theory, principles and application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to teacher candidates and in-service teachers. They provide higher education faculty with a multimedia, interactive online-learning environment that can be embedded in instructional methods courses. They are designed to be flexible enough to be used as part of an online, hybrid or face-to-face course. It is suggested that you create an interactive community of practice using a blog, wiki or other type of interactive web 2.0 media.What do you get? Multiple Means of Representation - The content is represented in multiple ways including text, audio clips and video.Multiple Means of Action and Expression - Online activities, discussion questions and lesson plan assignments allow students to express their understanding in different ways.Multiple Means of Engagement - Text, audio video, activities, additional resources, information, links to more information and other web sites allow students with multiple ways to engage with the content.Additional Features:Prompts can be found throughout the modules and provide students with additional opportunities to pause and reflect, to extend their learning, to model UDL and to test their understanding. Embedded prompts are also provided for instructors.The web site is BrowseAloud enabled! BrowseAloud reads web page text aloud when a mouse cursor is moved over it. Click the BrowseAloud icon to download their free text-to-speech software plug-in.Module 1- Introduction to UDL Module 2 - Applying the UDL Framework to Lesson Development CAST staff developed these modules to provide future and current educators with an overview of how to apply the UDL framework to lesson development. Development of these modules was made possible by the generous support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671594 CHEM 216 builds on the experimental approach started in CHEM 211. Students participate in planning exactly what they are going to do in the laboratory by being given general goals and directions that have to be adapted to fit the specific project they will be working on. They use microscale equipment, which requires them to develop manual dexterity and care in working in the laboratory. They also evaluate the results of their experiments by checking for identity and purity using various chromatographic and spectroscopic methods.This course is part of the 2011-2013 MELO 3D project, supported by an LSA Instructional Technology Committee New Initiatives/New Infrastructure grant. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671587 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project.