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    • ]]>     I’m always looking for ways to demonstrate how technology is relevant for our clients. So when I happened across this detailed explanation of how Rabbi D. Nimchinsky brought along his digital camera to snag some videos and upload them to YouTube during an 8th grade field trip to Washington DC, I was delighted.

    The good rabbi says:

    The results were very gratifying. Each day we received numerous emails from parents, teachers and other students commenting on the trip, the video bloggers, and the students in general. It built up a good deal of enthusiasm and excitement about the trip which the kids were thrilled about when they called their parents or friends in the school.

    Look at this detailed how-to on the AVI CHAI Educational Technology blog.

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    ]]>     http://talance.com/blog/2008/08/26/a-rabbi-meets-youtube/feed/ 0     Universities Reach Large Audiences Through E-Learning http://talance.com/blog/2007/12/02/universities-reach-large-audiences-through-e-learning/ http://talance.com/blog/2007/12/02/universities-reach-large-audiences-through-e-learning/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:57:02 +0000 Talance http://talance.com/blog/2007/12/02/universities-reach-large-audiences-through-e-learning/
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    • ]]>     Even small universities can reach large student audiences through online learning programs. Take, for example, the University of Illinois, which has an exemplary online learning program and wants to reach 10,000 new online students by next year, according to a report this week by NPR.

    Nowadays, many colleges require students to take at least one course online, so it’s little wonder that U. of Illinois, which has a relatively small on-campus student population, is looking for a new way to break ahead with this new learning.

    The students, many of whom are plugged in 24/7 anyway, aren’t the hiccup to adoption. It’s the teachers. Learning the basics of podcasts, blogs and Second Life is a crash course for many of the educators, who are the same ones who teach in-person classes. The U of I puts teachers through a tech-ed bootcamp before turning them loose on the online sector of their students.

    This makes me think the market for e-learning-only educators will continue to shrink as everyone becomes an expert in e-learning.

    To that end, here are some handy tools that I share with the educators I work with so they can learn more about teaching online:

    Illinois Online Network
    http://www.ion.illinois.edu/Resources/tutorials/overview/index.asp

    Simple Course Planning Worksheet
    http://www.talance.com/planning.html

    Weblogs, part II: A Swiss Army website?
    http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Winter2002/feat.weblogging2.html

    Second Life Education Wiki
    http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

    Education Podcast Network
    http://www.epnweb.org/

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