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New! Icebreakers 

This Month's New Feature:  Perhaps you already use a clever "getting to know you" activity at the beginning or end of your workshop, class, or meeting.  Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet!  Check out our Icebreakers Section for reviews of, and sample techniques from, some of the best books on icebreakers, warmups, instructional games, activities, and closers.

New! Rubrics

Rubrics are sets of guidelines or standards used for assessment.  You can speed up the development of rubrics by using a rubric builder. Our new Rubric Page presents some of the best software-based and web-based rubric builders, along with directories of online rubrics and examples of different types of rubrics.

Articles

Featured Article: In workshops, we're often asked to give advice on distance learning topics like discussion boards, email, etc.  This month's article is an Adobe Acrobat document entitled "Ideas for Distance Learning".              
                              Articles

Handouts

Featured handout: Today, more and more instructors are creating web sites for their classes.  However, most don't provide guidelines that can prevent problems and help students adjust to the online environment.  Why not copy and modify our Rules & Policies for Educational Web Sites for your students?

Book Summaries

To help remember the main points of work-related books we read, we create summaries of them.  Here are some of our book summaries.  It's a great way to keep up with some of the latest books on education.

Education-Related News Digest

We subscribe to quite a few online listservs on training and educational technology.  To help keep up, we collect relevant articles into a monthly  Educational Technology News Digest.

Links

Here are some useful links on education-related topics.

Coming Soon!

This web site is always changing, so check back often!  Here are a few things coming up:
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More articles on topics like "How Teachers Can Leverage Their Time".

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Tutorials on streaming audio/video and video editing.

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Links to free stuff for teachers.

 

I.D.E.A. NEW! I.D.E.A.

Distance Learning University

We know, we know---you'd like to learn more about distance learning, but who has the time?  Well, now you do because we're inaugurating a free service to help make you an expert on distance learning!

We wade through documents and reports on distance learning and give you executive summaries of them, documents like:

bullet A landmark report presented by a special Web-Based Education Committee to the U.S. Congress in December 2000.  
bullet A report by Curtis Bonk that asks, "What do faculty members really use in online learning, and what do they want?" 

Visit the Distance Learning University

Software Training

Why read about software when you can learn by seeing it in action? Visit our Software Training area. 

This month, we spotlight WebCT (the world's leading course management system for online learning) and the leading anti-plagiarism service www.plagiarism.org (along with its sister site, www.turnitin.com).  We also showcase the abilities of the Tegrity WebLearner, an innovative portable streaming media production system.  

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