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Tools of Communication

• Improving In-Class Discussion
  Use principles of priming, integrating and reinforcing to improve in-class discussions. Use Blackboard as a tool to support these principles.


• Online Discussions with Blackboard (PDF 606K)
  Many experts on student-centered online learning agree that the discussion board is the place where some of the most important learning can happen. As teachers and facilitators, we have to find ways to support students in "driving" that learning.


• Managing Your Online Discussion: Advice from a UO Teacher
  Regardless of the format you choose, a successful online discussion requires that an appropriate amount of structure be maintained throughout the term. This advice comes from Jennifer Freyd (Psychology), who has been using listservs in her classes for years and is equally applicable to discussin forums on Blackboard.


• Managing Heavy Student Email
  This page contains helpful tips on managing your student email. It also contains the thread from a discussion board where faculty are discussing the value of email between students and faculty.


• Customized Attention to Your Specific Needs
  Give us a call or send us an email to setup a one on one consultation in your office.


• Technology and the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
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  This document discusses how technology can be used to successfully support the "Seven Principles of Good Practice" as defined by the American Association for Higher Education. The first principle is "Good Practice Encourages Contacts Between Students and Faculty" with a discussion of how technology can be used to improve this communication.


• Online Instructional Technology Resources
  Hundreds of organizations exist to explore the uses of and increase the quality of instructional technology in higher education. These are among the most widely recognized and referenced.

 

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