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George Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee (1895): Mini-Lecture & Interactive Learning Object

Late Victorian writer George Gissing and his works are not well known, but they are emotionally gripping, psychologically realistic, and ultimately both destabilizing and reinforcing of how we come to understand the world around us vis-a-vis rapid cultural and technological change. To correct the fact that his works have slipped into invisibility, The Fringe Journal is launching a series of

Interview with Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin: Innovators in Education Series

Writing prompts are no longer static when they are placed into an environment of active collaboration, reading and responding via any number of mechanisms (mobile, elearning, face-to-face, and hybrid). The key is to develop prompts that work in all environments.  Welcome to an interview with Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, whose book, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Texture Press) was a

Booth Tarkington's The Turmoil (1915): A Mini-Lecture

Booth Tarkington’s novel, The Turmoil (1915), negotiates the psychological
minefield of rapid industrialization / technological shifts / structural social
change due to new innovation and rapid growth. While it was written almost 100
years ago, the disruptive technologies and their impact on social structure and
individual psychology hold true today. The Turmoil is first of the Growth Trilogy, 

Interview with Emily Claude, Oklahoma Arts Institute: Innovative Programs in Education Series

With new capabilities for collaboration and posting performance, it is more important than ever to develop programs that inspire learners of all ages and from all background to develop their creativity and to share that journey. One great example is the Oklahoma Arts Institute at  Quartz Mountain, which offers two innovative programs for arts. Welcome to an interview with Emily Claude, Vice

Finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets

Texture Press's Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin with illustrations by Don Riggs, is a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2014. The finalists will be officially announced in late May, but the editors and authors received notification in early May.



Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets

The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the

Interview with Don Sevcik, MathCelebrity - Innovators in E-Learning Series

One of the biggest challenges in online math education is being able to show the students how to go through the process of working problems and equations. One solution has been developed by an automated math tutoring website, MathCelebrity. Welcome to an interview with Don Sevcik, president of MathCelebrity.


www.mathcelebrity.com

1.  What is your name and your relationship to elearning? 
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Moodle Course Design Best Practices (PacktPub) Now Available

Moodle Course Design Best Practices (PacktPub, 2014) is now available! Designed to be an easy-to-follow guide to help you create or update your Moodle course, this book will help people who use Moodle for training and education in colleges and universities, schools for ages 5-18, corporations, professional associations, and other organizations.






With all content rigorously reviewed by four

Peer-Reviewed by MERLOT: Writing Survival Guide

I am delighted to announce that E-Learning Queen's writing resources guide, Writing Survival Guide, which consists of a large set of original worksheets, templates, and flowcharts for use in writing and composition classes has been peer-reviewed by MERLOT and received a great rating!

Here is MERLOT's portal page of the Writing Survival Guide. As you can see, the site has been in MERLOT since

Mini-Lectures Using Learning Objects: Bosch's The Haywain (1516)

Animated learning objects that bring together images, audio, and interaction are a perfect place to engage students. Now that many translate to HTML5 and are designed to be responsive so that they play well on tablets and smartphones (and on all platforms) as well as laptops, etc., they're a great way to deliver mini-lectures. Click to see one that I created for the purposes of this blog.

Review of Administering ArcGIS for Server

If you are using GIS applications, you need guide to help
you install and manage a solid backbone architecture that will allow you to
incorporate all the newest and most integrative GIS services.   




Administering ArcGIS for Server






Administering ArcGISfor Server (Packt Publishing, 2014) by ESRI award-winning Hussein Nasser is a clear, easy-to-follow
guide which takes you all the way