http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 16:43:09 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 16:43:09 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=433985 The Center for Teaching Excellence authored this white paper, Building from Content to Community: [Re]Thinking the Transition to Online Teaching and Learning, to serve as a resource for faculty who are teaching online or are considering making a transition. We hope this paper serves as the starting point for conversation and reflection as you begin this process yourself. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=358794 Web 2.0 has emerged into a large, growing, and developing world of content and platforms. Gaming has rapidly expanded into a global industry. In contrast course management systems have developed along very different lines. We examine ways for the CMS to connect with these two worlds, outlining areas for possible development: increased hyperlinking, internal platforms and instances, and extruded applications. Additionally we consider ways by which the CMS can learn strategically and conceptually from Web 2.0 and gaming. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=448507 The school is in a society that is a complicated process of transformation and can not be alien to it. Students today have many more sources of information that what happened does not make or five years. Sources of information, such as the Internet, cell phones, laptops, iPods that make it necessary to rethink the way how the school teaches. The use of blogs as an educational tool puts school in the dynamics that require our students and training for skills that society is going to sue them. In this paper we develop some experiences in the use of blogs as an educational tool for high school levelLa escuela se encuentra en una sociedad que está en un complicado proceso de transformación y no puede ser ajena a éste. Los alumnos disponen hoy en día de muchas más fuentes de información que lo que ocurría no hace ni cinco años. Fuentes de información, como Internet, teléfonos celulares, laptops, iPods que hacen necesario replantear la forma de cómo la escuela enseña. El uso de los blogs como una herramienta educativa innovadora coloca a la escuela en la dinámica que exigen nuestros alumnos y en la formación de las competencias que la sociedad les va a demandar. En este trabajo se desarrollan algunas experiencias en el uso de los blogs como una herramienta educativa a nivel bachillerato. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=487778 Lesson plans and activities to help teachers and students during the first week of school. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=487788 Activities to help teachers know their students during the first week of school. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=367524 An article about social networking safety. The abstract reads, "Recently, public attention has focused on the possibility that social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are being widely used to sexually solicit underage youth, consequently increasing their vulnerability to sexual victimization. Beyond anecdotal accounts, however, whether victimization is more commonly reported in social networking sites is unknown...״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=360253 Online learning is used in many institutions of higher education with course offerings ranging from complete online degrees to hybrid virtual and physical courses. Online learning environments are complex environments using a variety of technologies and tools to overcome time and location restrictions. The research presented in this article focuses on a web-based asynchronous learning environment and the integration of usability factors into the evaluation of student learning outcomes. Usability tools are often employed in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to measure the quality of a users experience when interacting with a web site and could potentially impact learning in web-based online learning environments. This study investigates the relationships between usability factors and learning outcomes in an online learning environment as well as differences in learning outcomes and system usability between several selected student groups, including student computer competency scores, gender, age, and student standing. The results of this survey-based study highlight the importance of integrating usability factors into the evaluation of learning outcomes in online learning environments. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=491300 TheWeb site has useful ideas and articles about how to involve parents in education. Most information is for Elementary, middle and high schools. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=348538 MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The objectives of JOLT are to:Enable faculty to use technology effectively in teaching and learning by learning from a community of researchers and scholars;Enable academic programs to design and deploy academic technology to optimize teaching and learning;Build a community around the research and scholarly use of multimedia educational resources. JOLT welcomes papers on all aspects of the use of online multimedia educational resources for learning and teaching. Topics may include, but are not limited to: learning theory and the use of multimedia to improve student learning; instructional design theory and application; online learning and teaching initiatives; use of technology in online education; innovative online learning and teaching practices. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=639096 Article by Sonia Nieto on language, identity and education in the 21st century.