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Cast Your Pod to the Wind
13 June 06 12:18 AM | margulisd | 513 Comments   
The following links are resources for the Massachusetts Colleges Online conference presentation Cast Your Pod to the Wind , June 13, 2006 at Middlesex Community College: Horizon report : http://www.nmc.org/horizon/ (Emerging educational technologies) Read More...
Just In Time Teaching
19 August 05 12:11 PM | margulisd | 509 Comments   
The excerpts below were taken from the editorial "Just in Time Teaching" by James Rhem featured in the Tomorrow's Professor mailing list. Rhem's editorial highlights presentations by Scott Simkins, professor of economics at North Carolina A&T Read More...
Welcome "Bridging" Members!
18 January 05 02:15 PM | margulisd | 2 Comments   
Here are some points we hope to cover in the next 10 minutes or so regarding the use of a blog to support the online component of an educational community of practice: Framing the presentation in a larger context: "The communication tools of the Read More...
Bridging Community to Visit Blog
15 January 05 10:45 AM | margulisd | 534 Comments   
Members of the NLII ( National Learning Infrastructure Initiative ) Bridging Community will be paying a visit to the COPPER Blog on Wednesday, January 19, for a brief presentation on the use of blogs as a collaborative tool as a part of their series of Read More...
Western Civilization Webography Project
09 December 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
Mills Kelly (George Mason University) describes the "Western Civilization Webography Project" in the following excerpt from his presentation abstract at the International Society for SoTL conference: "The Western Civilization Webography Read More...
Enhancing Student Interaction with Online Discussion Boards
04 November 04 11:24 AM | margulisd | 521 Comments   
Mónica Torregrosa of HCC has forwarded the following request for ideas regarding the use of online discussion boards to support student interaction: I have been developing a website for my Intermediate Spanish course using WebCt. Besides posting documents Read More...
Concept Maps
15 October 04 02:27 PM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
Concept maps and mind maps have received considerable attention in recent years as useful tools for faculty and students alike in organizing their ideas in a visual way. These graphic organizers can be created by hand (or by using specially designed software) Read More...
Using Technology in Psychology Courses
07 October 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 523 Comments   
Michael Rodman, Chair of the Behavior Sciences Division at MCC, forwarded the following summary of a recent presentation at Middlesex on the use of technology in Psychology courses. ACTIVE TEACHING LEARNING IN PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOP On Friday September 17th Read More...
Computer-Based Technologies for Psychology
30 September 04 02:50 PM | margulisd | 552 Comments   
ACTIVE TEACHING LEARNING IN PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOP On Friday September 17th the Middlesex Community College Behavioral Science Department hosted a workshop on using computer—based technologies to teach Psychology. The presenters, faculty and staff from Prince Read More...
Help Me Fred, I'm Drowning...in a sea of papers!
03 May 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 512 Comments   
He might be able to help, if "Fred" is the name you've given your computer. The end of the semester finds many of us who teach writing intensive courses with piles of essays, research papers, and final exams to grade. Might our computer be capable of Read More...
A University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies)
26 April 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 522 Comments   
For those of us who are both products and supporters of a liberal arts education, Milton Greenberg's article in the current issue of the EDUCAUSE Review , A University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies) , may prove difficult to digest. Representing Read More...
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
25 March 04 10:08 AM | margulisd | 537 Comments   
Two cultures clash a bit when one realizes that the majority of educators (and adults) are probably most comfortable communicating online using asynchronous methods (e-mail and threaded discussions), while most of our students and the majority of young Read More...