Online resources continue to expand. Here are a few that I've recently heard about:
- British Pathe released 90,000 films on Youtube. British Pathe contains an amazing video record of news in the 20th century. Really. It's quite extraordinary. Check out the Youtube channel.
- The Digital Public Library of America, just one year old, has aggregated information on over 7 million items at various institutions across the nation, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. It's another place you can have fun exploring.
- Here's one last link on searching and researching on the web: As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, describes how researching is changing in the age of Internet search engines.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is an icon worth?
I've been intrigued by the use of icons in computer and web-based tools. Learn the icons for editing tools in one online text editor, and you can pretty much use any online text editor. Icons and context icons continue to expand in use -I think it's partially due to smart phones. Icons are quicker and easier to read than tiny text.Here's a set of icons if you want to see some of the options. How well do you understand this visual language?
- Ask them to complete the survey.
- Post an announcement about the survey in Blackboard.
- Tell them that we are using the new short form. It won't take long to complete.
- Remind them it's totally anonymous.
- Tel them how you will use the information to improve your class next time you teach it.
- If you can, schedule some class time in a computer lab so that they can complete the survey.
- Leave the room when they complete the survey.
If you have low completion rates on the survey, what other data are you collecting on student views of your class?
I am curious about what you are doing to encourage student participation in the survey. Leave a comment and let me know.
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