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RESOURCES & TOOLS

Learning Design Resources

Writing Learning Objectives - Bloom’s Taxonomy
Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/RevisedBlooms1.html
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/pdfs-docs/teaching/RevisedBloomsHandout.pdf (Handout)

Introduction to Rubrics
Dannelle Stevens and Antonia Levi, Portland State University
They demonstrate how interactive rubrics -- a process involving assessors and the assessed in defining the criteria for an assignment or objective -- can be effective, not only in involving students more actively in their learning, but in establishing consistent standards of assessment at the program, department and campus level.
http://www.introductiontorubrics.com/index.html

Online Facilitation Resources

Improving the Use of Discussion Boards (Examples, Tips, Rubric)
Teaching with Technology Collaboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/ATC/Collaboratory/Idea/boards.html

Fostering Critical Engagement in Online Discussions: The Washington State University Study
Dr. Barbara Moore, Washington State University
http://ittar.wikispaces.com/file/view/Fostering_Critical_Engagement_in_Online_Discussions_by_Barbara_Monroe.pdf
Establishing Tone in a Distance Course
http://cnx.org/content/col10529/latest

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Resources

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

Gallery of Teaching and Learning http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/

Technology Tools

Aviary
Firefox plug-in that makes it easy to capture, edit (crop, resize, rotate), and save content on a web page.
In Firefox go to Tools>Add-Ons>Extensions.
http://www.aviary.com

Pic Resize
Resize, shrink, and crop your pictures online. http://www.picresize.com/

URL Shortener
URL shorteners are tools which make long hyperlinks much shorter, without having to stretch across multiple lines of text.
tinyurl.com
bit.ly.com
goo.gl.com