6 Activities you can do online with songs and music

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      I’ve found that in class most students enjoy lessons based around songs or music.

      Publishing a Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers manual

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      Well it's been quite a while since I last posted to my blog here, but I have been keeping very busy, mainly looking at new web based tools that we can use with our students and new ways we can use them, or sometimes old ways that work well too. I decided to put information about a few of these tools together and publish them in a free manual.

      Create your own E-Learning

      The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses.

      Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World

      Virtual worlds are engaging, stimulating spaces where students can meet online for normal class activities, including lectures, discussions, case studies, projects, papers, exams, and labs. Classes are a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activity. A virtual world class differs from a traditional course management system, such as Blackboard or Moodle, due to the three-dimensional (3D) graphical setting.. Read more >>

      Factors Affecting Faculty Members’ Decision to Teach or Not to Teach Online in Higher Education

      Traditional forms of distance education in higher education have existed since the middle of the 1880s. Leading scholars in this field attempted to define the environment, individual roles, and the patterns of behaviors of online education. A theory is needed to describe and define the field, and to identify the various forms of online teaching and learning.. Read more>>

      The Effectiveness of a Web-based Board Game for Teaching Undergraduate Students Information Literacy Concepts and Skills

      Now more than ever, incoming undergraduate students need to know how to conduct research. Digitization is radically expanding the information universe. Printed sources are migrating into digital forms, unprecedented amounts of new information are being born digital, and entirely new Internet-based tools – search engines, directories, library portals, current alert services, metasearch engines, review services, relevance rankings, popularity-based retrieval – are proliferating. As a consequence, all information seekers are now in the same deep and rich pool of information where academics have trod alone for years.. Read more>>

      Karaoke to get your students singing songs

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      A couple of months back I posted a message about a new karaoke website I had found which you could use with students ( http://www.redkaraoke.c

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