Active Learning Strategies Wiki: Resources

Memorization Strategies

• Crossword Compiler has everything you need to create great educational, professional, and fun crossword puzzles. The program can make a vocabulary puzzle from your own words in seconds, or fill in one of the many supplied grid patterns from a word list. http://www.crossword-compiler.com/

• Fling the teacher allows you to generate multiple-choice questions. If students answer correctly, they get to fling the cartoon teacher. http://www.contentgenerator.net/fling/

• MFL Sunderland has a variety of PowerPoint and other templates to download. Jeopardy and Snake and Ladder games are available here. http://www.sunderlandschools.org/mfl-sunderland/resources%20gen%20pz.htm
  
  

Meaning Making Strategies 

• A Blog about questions as starting points for writing and researching in an online environment http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/10+Self+10+Worldtem

• Quandary makes action mazes http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php

• Social Impact Games lists various educational games http://www.socialimpactgames.com/index.php

 

Constructing Meaningful Artifacts Strategies

• An example of using location maps  http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/mapping

• A walled Blog for middle schools http://personallearningspace.com/login/index.php

• A student film festival http://mabryonline.org/archives/2007/04/2007_film_festi.html

• International Teen Life wiki allows teenagers from different locations around the globe to exchange their thoughts and perceptions of what their lives are like http://internationalteenlife.pbwiki.com/

Three-step reflective framework for electronic portfolios

This is part of my Doctorate in Education thesis research. http://bronwynhegarty.blogspot.com/



The idea is to encourage reflective writing using a template so that users step through three steps of reflection - 1. Take notice and describe the experience - what you know, think feel, need, decisions; 2. analyse the experience - why the actions and decisions, reactions, 3. Take action - what learned and how will you use it - goals.

This framework is used with a template with prompts to create evidence for electronic portfolios.

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Introduction to active/cooperative learning:
http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/keycomponents/collaborative_learning.html
Sage's journal: Active Learning in Higher Education
http://alh.sagepub.com/

Jon Mueller's Authentic Assessment Toolbox
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/

Tips for Teaching from UC-Berkeley (see esp. section 5)
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/teaching.html

Add Active Learning to Large Classes
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/taresources/large.html

Craig Nelson   - (click on the name to find the paper or copy this out http://tinyurl.com/2tvdjx ).  For some reason my edits don't always stay even though I am saving.  The link below is probably being confused as a WIKIWORD problem.
Paper on the need for changing teaching paradigms given the  \increasing diversity of students:
 http://mypage.iu.edu/~nelson1/96_StudentDiversity.pdf


Anything from Richard Felder of North Carolina State, particularly related to the sciences. For example:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Largeclasses.htm
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/FAQs-2.html

Confessions of an E-Learner http://e-learningconfessions.blogspot.com/

Creativity ideas Help does anyone know why some links add a ? and refuse to be active???? WIKIWORD concept 

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/creativity.html

http://www.coe.uga.edu/torrance/resources.html

Silence and Voice Blog http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2007/09/12/pouring-in-learning/