Category Archives: Distance Learning | Education

Flickr Galleries 2

OK!  Now I am excited.  I circled back to the Flickr Galleries feature I mentioned earlier, and noticed that they have now added (and I think this is new, but I could have just missed it) the ability to explain … Continue reading

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Flickr Galleries

Flickr has added a cool new feature to its repetoire – galleries http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/14/galleries-unleash-your-inner-curator/ This feature allows one to create a collection/set of other people’s photos I can see some interesting uses for this – including a “webquest” of sorts for … Continue reading

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Integrated Support Systems

This article has been sitting in my “unpublished entries” of my weblog for a while (since march 2004? yikes!) — I have a habit of storing and forgetting to go back. Not good — another end of year resolution to … Continue reading

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Indiana State – Sketches of Innovators in Education

Hurray! I finally have “re-found” the Indian State University “Sketches of Innovators in Education” site: “Sketches of Innovators in Education is a collection of articles in which Indiana State University faculty and staff discuss their experiences developing courses and teaching … Continue reading

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Online Tutoring

Online Tutoring for Students. Establishing Online Tutoring for Students , Mary Hricko, Library Director , Kent State University Geauga Campus

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One more Copyright reference..

One more copyright related site — this time From Simon Fraser’s Centre for Online and Distance Learning… http://www.sfu.ca/cde/ca/copyright-index.html Good resources, nice layout… I find the release forms on the page interesting as well – helping to address some of the … Continue reading

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Copyright Guide for New Media Producers..

Following on to the earlier posting on copyright. I also found a page at Heritage Canada that is quite interesting… A Practical guide on Copyright Clearance for New media Producers http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/pubs/ic-ci/pubs/copymm_e.htm This should prove useful..

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Digital Copyright Clearance Examples

I’m doing some background work related to clearning copyright for online courses, and wanted to store a few links here. I thought I would check into what other Canadian Institutions are doing. I am really impressed with the University of … Continue reading

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Online Degree/Services Guides at WCET

Further to the DE post on Dec 12, the other resources that I think are quite useful have been out for a while as well, but good to surface: Regional Accrediting Agency Documents on Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs … Continue reading

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Been a while..

I’ve been pretty absorbed over the last few months with teaching a Geology course (thus the Rock Blog) fully online for the first time ever… the Online Freakout Party Zone** has languished… Teaching certainly is not over yet… I’m still … Continue reading

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