March 22, 2010

Today, our teacher ed call centered around some of the sites that we triaged recently. As we were discussing sites, I noted a few that seemed very promising. When we triage for MERLOT, it means that we're selecting sites that we will review in the future. Cris Guenter mentioned a site that was particularly useful in graduate education classes, an assignment that taught students how to use Zotero to create an annotated bibliography. One of the neat aspects is that it could easily be adapted to any other course (it's constructed for an early childhood literature class). After checking it out, I discovered some other fine work by the author, Sarah Leigarde Swart, and thought you might find it interesting as well.

Ms. Swart's main site is located at http://www.easytechnoskills.com/index.html. One of the most impressive aspects is a compilation of resources for online teaching and learning. You can view that at http://www.easytechnoskills.com/DE_resources.htm.

I'd encourage anyone interested in incorporating more technology in their teaching and learning to check out these websites.

Jane