Thoughts for the week
Atomic Learning
Here's a tutorial from Academic Innovations and eLearning on adding Atomic Learning modules to Blackboard. Just remember, if you want to view the modules, login to Blackboard in a different browser with your student account.
Student Evaluations
You don't have to wait until the end of the semester to collect feedback from your students. Robert Talbert shares his strategies, approaches, and reasons for collecting more frequent feedback from students. His questions are simple and he explains to the students what he's doing or not doing based on the feedback. Student feedback is a great source of information on how to improve teaching.
Passwords- Again
The recent hacking of Gmail accounts shows the importance of having strong, unique passwords. This article from Computer World explains it all very well. So, for you readers, this means that your UAA password has to be unique. If you use your UAA email address to create an account on, say, Dropbox, use a new password. Do not use your UAA password on any other system anywhere. Period. I use Keeper to keep track of my passwords. LastPass has also been recommended to me as a way to keep track of passwords. Yes, I wrote about this last spring. I'll probably write about it again.
Design for eLearning
This blog post summarizes the research by Clark and Mayer on how to make eLearning more effective. It gives 10 guidelines on design that help maximize learning. I admit, I have Clark and Mayer's book E-learning and the Science of Instruction by my computer.
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