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Creating a Culture of Citation

// December 3rd, 2011 // No Comments » // Teaching & learning

We are building a culture of citation – piece by piece. We created this infographic to try to visually organize how complex this topic is for students. Step 1. The following set of recommendations were made by faculty after being considering a case study about how well we are preparing our students for the citation requirements they’ll [...]

Dragon Dictation – a favorite app

// November 14th, 2011 // No Comments » // Technology, Tools

I love Dragon Dictation on the iPad. I’ve just finished transcribing several hours of student focus group comments using Dragon Dictation. Last year I did all my student comments using this app. It takes a little bit to get used to but once you develop a work flow it’s definitely a time saver. The copy [...]

Citation dilemma

// October 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Main stage, Teaching & learning

What’s up? 1. Observations (by admin) have indicated there are some gaps in how thoroughly students are citing sources 3. Confusion for students has increased because of the variety of different citation styles being required by different teachers 2. Confusion also may have increased due to a greater variety of assessment types now being used [...]

Student response & peer instruction

// September 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Main stage

  AT the last PACT (Professional And Collaborative Time) English teacher Mary Onions demonstrated for English and SOSE teachers how she is using ‘clickers’ in her classes. The demonstration opened a discussion about what other tools could be used to gather student responses as an instructional strategy. Today at EARCOS workshop, hosted at St Mary’s International [...]

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