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On the bookshelf,  above the printer, in the Faculty Development Center, you can find the book “Enhancing Learning Through the Schoolarship of Teaching and Learning; The challenges and Joys of Juggling” by Kathleen McKinney.

Happy New Year

Elvir Mandzukic

Faculty Development Coordinator for the School of Education

Faculty Development Center at Webster University

To Start now visit http://www.livestream.com

Elvir Mandzukic, M Ed
Faculty Development Specialist for School of Education

By using a tag cloud, the repetition is prominent by displaying the word in larger font then the rest of the text. To learn more google “tag cloud.” To create a tag cloud generator such as http://www.wordle.net/.

IBM has a product called Many Eyes that creates charts in tag cloud format. It also allows you to import data set and then present it in one of many formats.
To learn more about presenting your’s or students’ writings in a ‘cloud’ format revealing a theme, or pattern, visit website http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/.

For more ideas on how to use tag clouds for your project contact your School Specialist/ Coordinator.

Elvir Mandzukic

Faculty Development Specialist for the School of Education at Webster University

I used the text from the article on page 4; published in eSources Fall 2009

Online Collaboration saves my travel time…

To work with my colleagues or students, I can organize projects and solicit contributions from all interested participants and still attend dinner with my friends, read a book, or simply enjoy a short break from my busy schedule.

It does not mean that work will be less. It means that I can go to a designated site on the Internet, log in and pour in my ideas, share files, comment on others’ postings, all at my own time.

As a facilitator of this communication, I have the opportunity to invite and remind participants of the deadlines through other media, such as e-mails, phone calls or a simple meeting over lunchtime.

Online collaboration does not replace face-to-face time with other participants – it simply makes those communications more effective by having all participants sharing ideas and resources prior to decision making sessions.  It can eliminate some meetings and help with scheduling.

There are many online tools that we can use for free to share different things: pictures, documents, videos, etc.

It is easy to set up these tools and also easy to use them.

If you’d like to learn more about how these tools can be implemented in your environment, please contact a specialist at the Faculty Development Center.

Thank you.

Elvir Mandzukic

Faculty Development Specialist, School of Education

The good thing is that we often try to back-up these files to other locations, such as computers, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, or external hard drives.

With WorldClassRoom we can save our files using the “Content Manager” tab also known as “My Files”. As users of WorldClassRoom we may want to preserve our existing work or plan for some work in the near future.  The files will be backed up to the WorldClassRoom server in they are in “My Files.”

My files is another place to store information and have it easily accessible to us when we want to teach another class and we need that syllabus from last term or a PowerPoint presentation.  We can back-up our course materials and have them ready for the next time we plan to teach the same course or use it for another course.

For more information and personal consultation on My files (Content Manager) please contact the Faculty Development Center or sign-up for our one hour workshop on WorldClassRoom Course Content Management.

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