Thought provoking EDUCAUSE Quarterly Article: Death to the Digital Dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance

What do YOU think about this topic?

Death to the Digital Dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance

By Patrick R. Lowenthal and David Thomas

Key takeaways include:

• Requiring students to submit work privately using a digital dropbox (or even worse, e-mail) can be a destructive pedagogical practice.
• Students benefit from public performance and public critique because people have to perform in the "real world" and are regularly subject to critique.
• Online faculty should strive to incorporate authentic, real-world types of experiences in the online courses they teach — including public performance and the accompanying public feedback

Read the complete article here: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/DeathtotheDigitalDropboxRethin/213672

Did you know that the EWU Blackboard service has several tools that can allow students and others to view and provide input on student work? These functions are not enabled by default but can be easily employed by Bb Instructors. Tools such as the "self and peer review," "Groups," and "Discussion Board" can create social learning interactions. Contact EWU's eLearning consultants (Dave Dean, Grant Ramsay and Jeff Healy) if you'd like help using these tools in your instruction.

100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers

Here is the start of the list of 100 useful YouTube channels for Teachers:

1. Smithsonian Videos: The beloved museum’s official channel mostly serves as a hub for its other offerings, but still hosts its own series of videos covering everything from biology to art.
   
2. TED Talks: Dedicated to "ideas worth spreading," TED Talks features incredible lectures, demonstrations and performances spanning every discipline imaginable.
   
3. Discovery Channel: Explore a nice variety of subjects through this channel, which also serves as the YouTube home of the always amazing Mythbusters crew.
   
4. PBS: Public broadcasting opens up viewers’ minds to the wide range of wonders the world has to offer, particularly when it comes to current events, the arts and science.
   
5. Biography Channel: Learn the life stories of people who have impacted the world in some way or another. Unfortunately, one must wade through a few useless celebrity fillers to find the educational stuff.
   
6. Yale University Courses: Faculty members at the Ivy League campus provide lecture series on a broad range of educational topics.
   

Check the full list here:

http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2010/10/20/100-incredibly-useful-youtube-channels-for-teachers/

October 2010 - "Attend" EDUCAUSE ONLINE 2010 - on the EWU Cheney Campus

Interested in learning more about eLearning technologies and methods? 

 

October provides a particularly terrific opportunity, the 3-day EDUCAUSE ONLINE 2010 conference which you can attend at no cost to you, if you are part of the EWU community. 

 

The EDUCAUSE ONLINE 2010 Conference sessions focus on technology and instructional methods topics of interest to higher education professionals. The conference "explores the key issues impacting our institutions today – from dealing with reduced IT budgets and understanding emerging technologies to the role that IT can play in developing collaborative, transformative learning environments."
 

Eastern's Office of Information (OIT) hosts the conference at EWU (we pay the registration cost and coordinate the event).

Provide your input on topic choice:

The sessions offered range from “Planning the Future of Student Computing Labs” to “Dealing with the Changing World of E-Textbooks” and many other topics in-between.  We need your input as to which sessions would be the most beneficial to you.
 

Please connect to the following survey and vote for the sessions you prefer.  Once the results are calculated, we will be communicating the actual sessions being offered so that you can pick and choose between topics of interest for you and timeframes that work with your schedule.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LQHN3RY
 

Please respond by Friday, October 8, 2010 and feel free to share this online conference opportunity with others who may be interested in these topics.

Plan to attend:

The logistics for this event, to be held on the EWU Cheney campus, are:
·        Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 8 am to 5 pm in Tawanka 215C
·        Thursday, October 14, 2010, 8 am to 5 pm in PUB 204
·        Friday, October 15, 2010, 8 am to Noon in Tawanka 215C