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Using A Blogspot To Engage Students

2011-10-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

Instructors are able to create HTML and XHTML pages that will render to all kinds of phones. Yes you are right - the look is on the boring side - but aren't we trying to send education content to students? If you want "Stunning and Style" trying using a Google Blogspot to send class content to students. A Blogspot renders correctly on many phone types, and is easy for an instructor to use. Also instructors note that you can Tweet a link to your Blog. Using this method you will not run out of space for characters. The link will open pages that render on student phones and instructors can stay in touch and keep students engaged.

Updates

2011-07-30T07:39:00.000-07:00

Instructors can update their class blog using their mobile access device. Create a blogspot for your class and tell your students to follow your announcements. The instructors can then update their class using an email address.
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New : Blogger on Mobile Devices

2011-07-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Instructors can choose settings on their Google Blog so that their course information is correctly configured for student mobile devices. A second setting can be chosen so that instructors can use their own mobile device to upload a post to their Google Blog
from any location that provides access.

Creating A Flash Video For Screencast.com

2011-03-04T15:47:00.000-08:00

Instructors can create videos with their webcams and provide those videos to students on ScreenCast.com from Tech Smith. For webcam outputs that are .AVI files - these files can be dragged to the Camtasia Studio time line and saved as a .SWF file. I reduce my player window size to decrease my file size. Keeping video files small keeps storage area size down, while providing multimedia to be linked to your course. Once .SWF files are created they can be uploaded to the ScreenCast.com site and viewed by students. ScreenCast.com also allows instructors to make content private and can be used to release class content on a schedule.

Instructors Creating Online Orientations

2011-02-15T16:50:00.000-08:00

Online class orientations can be broken into short segments and posted to youtube as mp4 files. Instructors can download Jing from techsmith.com, and create short movies of their desktops for students to view in learning how to use a course management system.
Jing can be used to create other class messages as well. Techsmith.com will also provide some online space for instructors to make movies available for students.

Web & Mobile Application Developers

2011-01-30T15:20:00.000-08:00

In an Article by Joe Light from the Times : "HTML5", "Mobile App", and "Android" are all among the fastest growing keywords in jobs posted online. This is according to data tracked by the search engine Indeed.com. "Twitter" and "jQuery" were among the five fastest growing keywords.

Secondary Education Instructors need be prepared for students accessing content on phones and tablet's starting now. There are two free tools that instructors can use right now for getting their content on to student's wireless devices. One is Twitter and the second is Blogger.

I use both of these services in training, and the reason is that these presentation layers fit on my Blackberry Bold. If I upload content that will fit on my Blackberry then I have gotten my content out to the majority of student devices. A second major point for me is that using both these tools provides me with content that will work on both desktops and wireless devices. Thia is important since instructors are using desktops or laptops to create content that students will sometimes access on their wireless devices.

PHP XML Parsing

2010-11-25T10:51:00.000-08:00

Check out the section (http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_xml_parser_expat.asp) on W3Schools covering XML parsing with PHP. This strategy is another way for instructors to add content to their websites and have the site updated automatically with relevant data for students. PHP; simpleXML can be used to parse XML that is returned from searches using Yahoo Query Language.

Using a Blogspot as a study guide!

2010-08-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

1.) What do the initials "CSS" stand for?

2.) How many ways can an instructor add CSS to their instructor website?

3.) How does using CSS contribute to web accessibility?

4.) Explain the concept of a "cascade" in the web presentation layer.

5.) Who controls the standard for CSS?

Formative Assessments

2009-10-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

Assessments to measure student learning can be provided online or sent to Wireless Access Devices, and can be used to provide early alert information to instructors or can be used to measure Student Learning Outcomes. The assessments are processed using a server side form processor and can be sent to a specific folder in the instructors email account.
Since the assessment is an html form a confirmation page can be created, and read or saved by the student when the form is submitted. The confirmation page will not only provide the correct answer as determined by the instructor but also provides the students answer. This offers immediate feedback to students. The students answers are sent to an email account providing the instructor with a measure of student learning. This testing tool would be used with on campus testing to provide positive identification for summative assessments.
The following Assessment is an example of a simple html form that can be posted online and/or distributed using Twitter or sent as text to student accounts:

http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/tgleason/practice_tests/practice_test_one.htm

practice test two

2009-10-14T14:14:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-09T15:50:00.000-07:00

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