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Destination 2015: Focusing on Active Learning through Reflective Practice
Our Prezi Reflective Practitioner Infographic YouTube Videos Readings What is Active Learning Active Learning Activities Assignment for Week 2 We hope you enjoyed our first session and found it valuable and applicable to your practice. Here is the homework assignment for Week 2: Print out learning outcomes for courses you commonly […]
LikeYoYo and More Fun with GIFs
Special thanks to Carl Creasman for sharing this idea with Circles of Innovation. After discussing yesterday’s post, Learning in a Giffy, Carl read about a new web app called LikeYoYo which turns GIFs into interactive animations. To read the Fast Company article he was reading, click here. LikeYoyo is a new online app from Turkish […]
The Next Generation Infographics: GIFographics
Combining animated GIF’s into Infographics makes them more eye-catching and keeps the attention of those who are easily distracted (SQUIRREL!). These sites showcase how this technique can be used to create compelling presentations of data, and could inspire students to challenge the static PowerPoint slide: www.gifographic.co.uk www.dailyseoblog.com/gifographics/ blog.visual.ly/animated-gif-infographics
Destination: Circles Track 2014 Exit Ticket Results featuring Tagxedo
Assessment is often a dirty word in higher education, but we’re getting better at figuring out what can/should be measured every day. On the last day of Valencia College’s annual profession development program Destination, the 2014 Circles of Innovation Track participated in a snowflake activity as an exit ticket for the five week experience. The […]
The Happiness Effect: How Exercise Makes You Happy | Visual.ly
Here’s more great motivation to exercise! Come on, get off your chair and get happy:) The Happiness Effect: How Exercise Makes You Happy | Visual.ly.
What Can be Done with Bad Teachers?
Most teachers do not begin teaching with plans of being a ‘Bad Teacher.’ According to the “What Can Be Done with Bad Teachers?” infographic, there are three categories of teachers: low-performing, average, and irreplaceable. Only 20% are considered irreplaceable, considered to be among the best? According to the infographic, there are two schools of thought […]
Infographics: 33 Painfully True Facts about Everyday Life
Aside from being funny, this is also an attention grabber when explaining information to students. Why is this information true? What behaviors lead to this? Why was a line graph used instead of a pie chart or bar graph? Be creative, I’m sure you can find a fun way to use this in your class […]
Worse than Death-Public Speaking Lesson Plan
2014 Destinations Lesson on Stage Fright Title: Greater than the Fear of Death: Public Speaking Class: SPC1608- The Fundamentals of Public Speaking Introduction: Most students who take this class typically enter with a moderate to high degree of speech anxiety, or the fear of speaking in front of an audience. These tools are meant […]
If-Else Construct – A C Programming Selection Structure
I teach information technology (IT) courses including programming courses. One of the programming languages I teach is C, and one of the first constructs the students need learn is the if-else construct, which is a selection-type programming structure. Selections allow the program to branch in different directions based on a condition, which usually has to […]
Microbial world to me and my target population
1. Infographics: Why Microbiology? http://visual.ly/why-i-picked-microbiology- Description: It is a very interesting and one of the pre requisite subject to enter into any health care field. However, students are scared of this subject as it has too much content to cover in one semester. On the other hand, by mid semester, students start liking this […]
Lesson Plan for Chakras: Wheels of Life
Buffy Pilloud Title: Chakras, Wheels of Life (Note—Chakras are subtle energy systems of the body that correlate to the physical body’s endocrine system.) Class: Yoga PEM 1121 AND Meditation for Stress Management HLP 1093 Introduction: I chose this lesson because I cover this topic in both my Yoga and Meditation for Stress Management classes, so […]
Final Draft Plan: The Black Death
Andrew Kinsell Title: The Black Death Class: EUH 2000, Western Civilizations I Introduction: The focus of my class on the Black Death is not the disease itself but the societal impacts the Black Death had throughout Europe. In order to accomplish this goal I will include a short video and a primary source (Boccaccio’s Decameron). […]
Love with Microbiology (good microbes)
Singh Final Project Discipline: Biology Video Title: Simple Science – The Micro-Organisms Song Categories: Science, Education Time Frame: The very first day of class Introduction: This is a really good video to take away fear of students taking this class of Microbiology that all microbes are bad. Learning Objective: Students will gain perspectives on the […]
Threaded Lesson: Is the War on Drugs a War against Minority Communities?
Heather Bryson Lesson: The War on Drugs Introduction: Is the War on Drugs a War on Minority Communities? Short Lecture: History of the 15th Amendment, the Voting Rights Act, and the War on Drugs Video: Ted-Ed – Bryan Stevenson “We Need to Talk about an Injustice” http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice Group analysis(5 or 6 small groups): Analysis of […]