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TalkingFavourites.com
Game Based Learning Projects
TlakingFavourites.com is
a site that looks at game based learning in
its widest sense. They look at social aspects of learning
and gaming online. They also look at video based games
online and try to seek out the new developments in
networked game based learning and the use of group
technologies.
Active Learning with PowerPoint
This University of Minnesota site includes an excellent
tutorial on using PowerPoint in a way that engages
students' interests. There's also a great section on
games created in PowerPoint.
"Creating the Active Classroom”
Aired live, October 26, 2006 - Tape and handouts
available in the Library.
Description:
Today’s instructors agree that for student learning to
be significant it must be active. Often times, this is
easier said than done, given the day-to-day challenges
that educators face from course coverage, class size,
and pre-class preparation to student resistance and poor
participation.
While this task can be arduous, it is not impossible, as
you’ll see in this program as some of the nation’s
award-winning and inspiring instructors share their
advice, demonstrate practical examples and create the
active classroom. These are proven strategies from the
front-line that will encourage inquiry, engagement and
motivation amongst students making them more responsible
and enthusiastic learners.
Featuring Carnegie & CASE National & State Award-Winning
Teachers:
Buzz Alexander
– 2005 National Winner Professor of the Year
Professor of English Language & Literature, University
of Michigan
Katherine Rowell
- 2005 National Winner Professor of the Year
Professor of Sociology, Sinclair Community College
Susan Edwards
- 2005 Texas Professor of the Year
Professor of History, Cy-Fair College
M. Vali Siadat
- 2005 Illinois Professor of the Year
Professor & Chair of Mathematics, Richard J. Daley
College
See
the Library for a copy of this video along with workshop
handouts.
Classroom
Activities for Active Learning
For your consideration to active learning contains
suggestions for classroom activities. The classroom
techniques contained in this issue are drawn from
experiences of teachers at UNC and from the printed
sources in the bibliography at the end of the article.
Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
What is active learning and why is it important? How
can active learning be incorporated in the classroom?
What are the barriers?
Active Learning: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of
Helpful Texts
This bibliography has been designed to identify and
preview texts that faculty members can use to enhance
their efforts to skillfully integrate active learning
instructional strategies in college and university
classrooms.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning
and Online Teaching) is a free and open resource
designed primarily for faculty and students of higher
education. Links to online learning materials are
collected at this site along with annotations such as
peer reviews and assignments. You can browse material by
subject including: Arts, Business, Education,
Humanities, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and
Social Sciences.
Active Learning Online
This web site presents Active Learning strategies for
the classroom and strategies for online courses.
Active Learning Strategies for Humanities Curricula
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is an
extensive collection of resources for science technology, engineering and mathematics
education at all levels.
Active Learning with PowerPoint
University of Minnesota, Center for Teaching and
Learning Services tutorial on using active learning with
PowerPoint. |
