Listen in on CTL Podcast with the Professor Episode 3 as Rod Christian, Business Faculty from Red Mountain, discusses his approach to providing feedback on student writing in his Business Communications classes.

Recording notes: The audio for this podcast was captured using portable podcast technologies (iPod video device and Micromemo recorder). The sound was edited the podcast was created using Garage Band.

 

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Turnitin Controversy

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In my opinion, one of the reasons that George Lucas’ earlier Star Wars film efforts were so successful is because they portrayed his vision of a ‘used future’–one where its inhabitants weren’t totally amazed at the fact they were traveling by light speed in space ships the size of Texas. They just used technology because it was there. What part of this are we employing today? Which teaching and technology trends are here to stay and won’t evolve or degenerate because the future is here and now and we just use it without geeking out about it?

James brought to my attention that the folks at Apple are up to their old (but good) tricks again. They’ve released a new version of their Boot Camp software that allows MS Windows to run on their hardware. Newly added is support for Windows Vista. I anticipate there will be a day when we will be so used to technology that it won’t matter THAT much what OS (Operating System) a computer has on it. We will just walk up to technology and begin interacting with it. Bad technology will devolve and good technology will progress…much like natural selection in ecology.

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Well… Microsoft Internet Explorer does it again! Today I was doing some work on some highly stylized HTML lists. I began to do my normal routine of looking at the web page in various browsers. Everything was looking great, but then came Internet Explorer 6! I noticed that it had placed quite a bit of extra space between each list item. Investigation started! (more…)

It seems like there is never enough time in the day to work, organize, clean, and live life. I love reading about new technology, new tricks, interesting new things but don’t have nearly enough time to browse the internet, read blogs, listen to podcasts, keep up on current news and events, etc. I find lots of interesting websites but rarely stick with reading them more than a week. (more…)

If you ever have the need to reset an exam attempt for an individual student or students, follow these steps:

1. From the Teach Tab of your course, click Assessment Manager
2. Pull down the Action Link next to the assessment in question and choose “View Submissions”
3. Next to the date and time of a student attempt, pull down the Action Link and choose “Reset Attempt”
4. You will receive a pop-up message asking if you are sure you want to reset. Click “OK”.

[Note 1: If the assessment is set up to allow multiple attempts and you want to reset all attempts for a particular student, check the box next to the student’s name then click “Reset Entire Submission” then click “OK” at the popup.]

[Note 2: If the assessment submission date has passed, be sure to Edit Properties in your assessment to reflect new dates. Otherwise, your “reset” student will not be able to access the assessment.]

Yes indeed, your friendly “professional development guru” has returned from a crash course on motherhood. I enjoyed my 12 weeks of “mommy-time,” however, I’m ready to be back at work using my brain muscles for things other than just changing diapers and soothing a crying baby! That is hard work! With that said, I am open for business. To refresh everyone’s memory about what I do here, I’ve compiled a quick list: (more…)

Fantastic use of blogs for education…tracking your movement through the maze of an academic conference session. “Walk” with Shelley Rodrigo, MCC faculty of English, this week as she attends and documents her experience at the CCCC conference.

Grading the same assessment question for all students in you class can help ensure that your grading is consistent. While this process is fairly easy to execute with paper/pencil exams not so the case in WebCT until the most recent release. To grade all instances of a single question, follow these steps:

1. From your course, access the Assessment Manager from the Teach Tab.
2. Using the action link next to your assessment of choice, select “Grade All Attempts of a Single Question”
   
3. Using the action link next to the assessment question of choice, select “Grade all Attempts of this Question”
4. A list of student names with links to Attempts will appear. Click the Attempt for the first student, grade the question, then click Save and View Next Attempt.
5. Click Done when all students are finished.

I’ve worked with Martin for almost 8 years now (gee I’m not that old), and when we shared office space and were working on some project together occassionally he’d slip into frustration with a growl that went something like “Arggh!!” — Just like a pirate. So anyway for lack of other material to post, and in honor of his style of getting things done under frustration at times, I ran his narrative blog post this week through the pirate talk translator: http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl

Read on to see how it sounds on paper…I can’t help but laugh

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