Productivity Tools
Web 2.0 Tools
Projects
Open Doors
Assessment
100
A VERY popular commercial word processing tool, originally for offline use only.
What is MS Word?
100
The generic name of the tool through which we all send electronic mail.
What is email?
100
The acronym for project-based learning.
What is PBL?
100
The tool (location) for current and future access to handouts from this course.
What Dropbox?
100
The "opposite" of summative assessment; this practice occurs during (not at the end of) the learning process.
What is formative assessment?
200
A VERY popular commercial spreadsheet tool, originally for offline use only.
What is MS Excel ?
200
A VERY popular commercial tool for social networking, widely used for sharing pictures, personal updates, connecting with friends, etc.
What is FaceBook (FB)?
200
This "building knowledge" theory is the foundation of PBL.
What is constructivism?
200
The LMS website for the "Shaping the Way" MOOCs, open for free enrollment JAN-JUN 2015.
What is Coursera?
200
Broad, very generalized aims for learning.
What are goals?
300
A VERY popular commercial slides tool, originally for offline use only.
What is MS PowerPoint?
300
The drag-n-drop online whitespace we used to share examples of preferred oral-aural skills websites and resources.
What is Padlet?
300
Fill in the blank: In PBL, the traditional teacher role of "sage on the stage" has been transformed into "________________ on the side."
What is "GUIDE on the side" (facilitator)?
300
A primary website (entity), often cited in this course, which you can refer to for standards on learner and teacher language guidelines.
What is ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)?
300
Specific, observable, measurable aims for learning.
What are objectives?
400
The online, sharing-enabled slides tool that multiple people used in their Web 2.0 Summaries.
What is Prezi?
400
The online drag-n-drop shared whitespace Kuliga showed us for the collaborative sharing of collections of academic materials.
What is Evernote?
400
The practice of offering constructive observation, inquiry, or suggestions for improvement between two or more learners.
What is peer feedback?
400
A primary website (entity), often cited in this course, which you can refer to for standards on technology use with students, teachers, and administrators.
What is ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education); NETS (National Educational Technology Standards)?
400
A grid or table with observable, specific descriptors for measuring learning objectives. Can be used with formative, peer, self, and summative assessment.
What is a rubric?
500
A large collection of information (data) organized especially for rapid search and retrieval on a computer, offline or online.
What is a database?
500
The generic virtual space for using, sharing, and storing "sky high" quantities of data of all kinds.
What is the cloud (cloud computing)?
500
The critical analysis or contemplation of one's own work and learning.
What is reflection (reflective practices)?
500
You are all welcome any time on the University of Oregon (UO) campus. Your password to open that door is the animal that represents UO.
What are ducks?
500
The measure of performance at the top of a rubric table (e.g., 1-2-3-4 or emergent--> approaching standard--> meets standard).
What is a scale?