ETC645

Request for Abstracts: 3 Minute Research Project Presentation 3MRP Website   APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 PM, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014   Purpose The Graduate College, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost , the Office of the Vice President for Research, Cline Library, and the Academic Colleges, is hosting the inaugural annual 3 Minute Research Project (3MRP) Presentations Competition. Participating graduate students at Northern Arizona University will have the opportunity to develop their academic presentation and research communication skills by explaining their research or creative work to an "intelligent but non-specialist audience."    Background The 3MRP project draws heavily from the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) presentation, which was first developed by the University of Queensland in 2008.  This form of research communication is aimed at "developing academic, presentation, and research communication s...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online . Share this: Dear Friends, We have a great professional learning opportunity that I am hoping you will help us get the word out and then share with others. Doug Fisher will be back and facilitating Literacy and the Common Core on December 10th in Phoenix at the Desert Willow Conference Center. Doug will be detailing how to implement the CCSS within a powerful collaborative model: Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLCs). Participants will learn comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies to help collaborative teams develop and assess student understanding. They will walk away with grade-specific examples and scenarios to learn the what and how. Each participant will receive a copy of Doug's book,...

We have a great PD event, What iPad Can Do for You and Your Students , on the horizon. I could use your help in spreading the word as we very much want to sell it out. We held this workshop in Tucson about a month ago. One participant said she learned more in one day with Tony than an entire year working on her iPad by herself.    What iPad Can Do for You and Your Students  will be held on Saturday, November 2nd in Flagstaff, AZ at the High Country Conference Center from 9:00PM to 3:30PM. Tony Vincent and his iPad will be sharing some of the latest and greatest in apps. Participants will have hands-on and minds-on time with some of the hottest apps for teachers and students. Whether you have one iPad, a small set, or one for each and every student, you will leave with loads of ideas you can immediately put to use in your classroom!   To learn more and register, please click here:   http://www.azk12.org/event/27660/d...

Dear ETC645 Students,   The final grades have been posted in the grade book on BBLearn and reported to the university.  Please check your grade ASAP.  If you have questions about your grade, please contact me by Friday, October 25, 2013.  I will assume that you agree with your grade if I don't hear from you.   I highly recommend that you print a copy of your grade book and save a copy for your own records.  From now on, please forward your correspondence to my NAU e-mail account at Chih.Tu@Nau.Edu . I suggest that you save a copy of our course materials for your own records as well. You can download a copy of course materials at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B02hmofyxKPkVXpCNTZWcXh3LTA/edit?usp=sharing     If you have not completed the Course Evaluation, please visit this URL to complete the evaluation.  http://www.nau.edu/course_evals   During the semester we have joined various Web 2.0 groups, please fr...

See BBLearn grade book & NAU system ASAP.

Thanks for your participation in Lesson 7 discussion and shared your learning experiences, thoughts, and reflections on distributed learning.  Your thoughts and reflections are very valuable. Online discussions are important learning experiences in ETC645 because we value interactive and collaborative learning is distributed learning system.  The purposes of online discussions are (just name a few): Enhance three types of interaction: learner-learner; learner-instructor; & leaner-content. Engage learners in critical thinking Respond to open ended discussion question requires higher order thinking because we need to justify our arguments. Moderating discussions require higher and better understanding in content. Increase online social presence. Enhance building of online learning community. I hope you had good learning experiences in our seven lesson discussions.  It was challenging but frequently, students would agree they learn the most from their cl...

See BBLearn grade book & e-mail for the details. Questions? Contact me within 2 days.