http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:08 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:08 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=441838 Nominated as "Best Educational Wiki," in 2008 and 2009, Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom. It's about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. This collection includes the connection of ICT with Bloom's Taxonomy, learning styles, integration, management, and dealing with complex change. The site also houses many resources for teachers to equip them to become "Digital Natives.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=406809 A collection of good quality webquests in various disciplines and for various age groups in school. The high school ones might be appropriate for introductory college courses http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=655492 BBC Learning Schools: Contains over 9,000 K-12 (Primary & Secondary) Educational clips from its BBC Learning Zone Class Programmes ready to play in your classroom. An excellent Educational Portal to free Online classes and other materials and resources for educators, students, and adults. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383582 Collegiate Independent Study is a completely free university for autodidacts and homosocratic learners.Hundreds of courses converted to Moodle format for homosocratic essay based directed independent study. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=580230 The Course in College Teaching is a graduate level course designed as part of the College Teacing Certificate Program at the University of Oklahoma. The College Teaching Certificate Program was designed by Dee Fink and has been a graduate level certificate program at OU for over 10 years. I redesigned the foundation course in 2006 to focus more on course design leading to classroom teaching strategies that are practiced in graduate teaching assignments. While we continued some teaching exercises in the course, the emphasis in the course was critically examining how to design a course that draws from literature on effective teaching and learning. To facilitate learning, students designed courses in their discipline over the course of the semester. The course design is "inquiry based" and is easily replicable. While Dr. Fink's book is not necessarily designed as a "text״, it provides a great foundation for thinking about how to design courses and served this course quite well. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76370 The only web portal dedicated exclusively to Learning Support Centers in Higher Education. Its "nearby history" (1965-2010) can be viewed on the LSCHE website at this page URL: http://www.lsche.net/aboutLSCHE.htm. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=389301 Literature review help, guidance and examples for students and researchers writing their literature review. Helpful articles discuss each stage of the literature review and help you to understand how to start writing a literature review and source information.Articles are added on a weekly basis and feedback is welcome. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=445596 Visual representation of up-to-date news stories in France (you can set it to pull the news from any country). Helpful for teachers and students to view and read, real-time, a variety of news stories in France. The site is updated every 10 minutes.Newsmap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. Google News automatically groups news stories with similar content and places them based on algorithmic results into clusters. In Newsmap, the size of each cell is determined by the amount of related articles that exist inside each news cluster that the Google News Aggregator presents. In that way users can quickly identify which news stories have been given the most coverage, viewing the map by region, topic or time. Through that process it still accentuates the importance of a given article. Newsmap also allows users to compare the news landscape among several countries, making it possible to differentiate which countries give more coverage to, for example, more national news than international or sports rather than business http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=376633 This is a video of a keynote address given at the 2008 Online Educa Berlin conference. Rick Baraniuk, Rice University discusses OER, primarily in regards to textbooks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=428281 This ia a site that I use for my students and provide them with online activities, quizzes and games to reinforce the information covered in class.