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The On-line Understanding Notion Book: 95 Established Techniques to Improve Engineering-Centered and Blended Studying
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“For those who believe on the internet learning can not be genuinely interactive, Patti Shank and her colleagues plainly show–in hundreds of examples–that it can. The true lesson in The Online Learning Notion Guide is that engineering isn’t going to create interactive finding out creative thinking and good, reliable instructional style does. Making use of even a smidgen of the wonderful ideas in this guide will improve the understanding usefulness of any on the web system.”–Marc J. Rosenberg, advisor, and writer of Beyond E-Studying”Patti Shank has collected great suggestions about on the web learning and teaching from all over the planet. If you are an online instructor or instructional designer hunting for new techniques to involve and engage your learners, you are going to be inspired by this guide!”–Terry Morris, associate professor, William Rainey Harper CollegesFilled with methods, equipment, guidelines, examples, resources, and dozens of “excellent tips,? this priceless resource helps folks who are hunting to construct on the web instructional materials —
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Tangled (Disney Tangled) (Tiny Golden Guide)
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Expect journey, heart, humor, and hair . . . lots of hair, when Disney Tangled arrives to theaters Holiday getaway 2010! This Little Golden Book retelling will thrill younger youngsters with its lovely total-color illustrations.
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An Interesting Survey,
This book takes an interesting approach to online learning. Rather than an author expounding on some specific learning methodology that’s guaranteed to revolutionize your system and your learners, Patti Shank collects ideas from practitioners in the field including her own experiences. Most of the contributors provided more than one idea to the text, but there are still at least 30 different viewpoints represented. And, the contributors seem to come from a wide spectrum of (mostly U.S.) educators in both corporate training and higher education.
The book contains almost 100 ideas broken into 10 broad categories related to online learning. Sections like: Ideas for Making Collaboration Work, Ideas for Supporting Learners and Learning, Ideas for Synchronous Activities, etc. Each idea is presented succinctly in 1-4 pages outline style. And, each is detailed by what the idea is, why you would want to use it, how you might use it and who to contact for more information (if needed). Most ideas contain at least one screen shot showing the idea “in action”.
As a software developer, I have spent the last 15 years on the “other side” of online learning: designing, building and operationally supporting a number of Learning Management Systems. So many of these ideas presented here were quite familiar to me. The rest ran the gamut from insightful to kind of campy. However, the format made for a fast and easy read. Well worth the time spent.
The book is probably best suited for educators and instructional designers looking to find ways to spruce up their offerings or increase the effectiveness of their material. All of the ideas are aimed at increasing the interactivity of online learning.
For someone interested in online learning and looking to see what kinds of tools and techniques are out there, this book is a great survey of current practice.
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|A treasure trove of interactive ideas,
Patti Shank has collected a treasure trove of interactive ideas for all types of online learning — synchronous, asynchronous, instructor-led, and self-directed. Even experienced designers and developers are sure to find new and creative ideas for improving online programs. In fact, I came up with innovative ideas for my classroom training (particularly in the synchronous training chapter.) All you need is a little imagination to use these ideas to solve a wide range of learning challenges. When the examples are not proprietary, Patti provides links so you can see the ideas in action. For example, the book references two low-cost software programs to help assess learning (e.g., Hot Potatoes and Quiz Game Master.) A companion CD in the next edition of this book would be a great asset for helping visualize some of the ideas presented.
I suggest The Online Learning Idea Book be a part of your “toolkit” for designing any type of online learning program. You can also feel confident that the Patti’s collection of ideas are based on solid performance improvement theory and will make a true impact on your learners.
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|New ideas and a good refresher,
What I like best about this book is that it covers a wide range of topics. When you’re working in e-learning you have a different focus depending on what project you’re doing at the moment and sometimes you need a refresher on topics. A refresher can be a chapter, an article, or just an idea that triggers your memory. For example, myself I upload to an LMS, but I don’t manage an LMS. The articles that went over LMS ideas were a good refresher for me.
When a book claims to have 95 proven ways to enhance technology based and blended learning you realize some of those I ideas may be fillers. I would have said that was not the case up to the beginning of the final chapter. The final chapter “Ideas for Creative Media” I could not help but think this was thrown in. This is a hot area in the online learning world, the way people learn is changing dramatically, and I guess I will have to wait for book 2.
That said, it is a good book, a nice read, I read it completely and highlighted it and it will sit on my office self for future reference.
Keith Johnson
Online Learning Specialist/Flash Designer
Seattle, WA
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|By one of the concept artists that worked on the film,
Bought this because the illustrator is one of the concept artists that worked on the film. Beautiful pictures. Definitely check it out if you like Disney concept art (which I adore). The pictures are a little reminiscent of Mary Blair’s work.
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|First Time Disappointed with a Little Golden Book,
I purchased this for my 4 year old niece and she loved the story, which is basically a watered down version of the animated tale, however, I was disappointed with the overall quality of the book.
I’ve been reading Little Golden Books since I was a child myself and this is the first time I can say the quality was less then stellar. Some of the images looked as though they were blown up larger than they were intended to be (i.e. their pixels were showing) and the color on some of them were muddy rather than bright and vibrant.
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|Illustrations Cute, Story is lacking,
I’m not super impressed with the story in the book – it reads pretty choppy. We saw the movie, so I thought the book would be so great to have, we love Little Golden Books…. this one is not our favorite. Also, our pages were cut funny during manufacturing- they protrude from the covers of the book slightly, which is odd.
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