...computer software and hardware and will develop a personal technology philosophy and classroom technology plan designed to enhance and shape their teaching skills and knowledge to better utilize emerging technology. (APTS 3, INTASC 6) Assessment Tool Selected 1) Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan 2) Reflection Essay Specific Performance/Task(s) Select and implement appropriate technology and resources. (APTS 3.11) Select and use research-based strategies to engage learners. (APTS 3.12) Relevancy of Task to Teacher Candidate Demonstrate the effective use of technology to foster active inquiry, promote collaboration, and support interaction in the classroom. Assessment: Student Prompts/Teacher Directions Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan (e-Portfolio Assignment) In Modules 2-6 you will be drafting the component parts of a Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan for use in a 21st century classroom. The Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan will include the sections listed below. Drafts of these sections will be submitted throughout the course for instructor feedback and will be revised for inclusion in the Benchmark Assessment, due in Module 7. A Reflection Essay will also be prepared to accompany the plan. The plan is composed of the following components: * Section One: Mission and Vision Statement * Section Two: Communications Plan * Section Three: Integrating Instructional Technology * Section Four: Software to Support Assessment ...
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...Development and acquisition approaches for emerging decision support environments * Challenges in harness big data and relevant analytics for effective, timely inputs to strategic decision making * Cultural, social and political dimensions of the adoption of emerging decision support technologies * Data and business analytics in the cloud * Emerging technology for real-time analytics * Knowledge-driven analytics: application of emerging technologies such as text mining, data mining, rule-based systems, semantic web technologies, or in-memory databases to address specific decision support needs * Mobile technologies for decisions analytics and support There are two deliverables to this project. 1. First is the Proposal. Your team will propose the BI application you have chosen in a no more than 5-minute presentation in class for feedback and approval by lecturer in week 7. 2. Final deliverable consists of presentation (10 %) in week 10 and a brief report (15%) in week 11. Presentation of your findings in this project would be of about 20-minute duration. Report Submission:...
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... Contents Section A - Overview and Content Page 4 Module Leader and Team details Welcome Office hours / contact details Administrative and Technical support Timetable Venue / rooms Module information Content of the module Aims of the module Learning outcomes Learning resources Pre-requisites Section B – Module programme Page 8 Section C – Assessment and Feedback Page 19 Assessment schedule (including deadlines for submission) Formative assessment opportunities and feedback Plagiarism regulations Evaluation of the module Frequently asked questions Appendix 1 Research presentation: marking criteria for MAHRM & Top up students, MBA, Msc, MIBM. Appendix 2 Research Proposal: marking criteria for MAHRM & ‘Top up’ students, MBA, Msc, MIBM. Details of Module leader Name | Sharif Sheriff | Field & School | Postgraduate IBM Field West London School of Business | Email | sharif.sheriff@uwl.ac.uk | Phone | 0208 231 2243 | Location | Paragon Site – The Annex – 2nd floor | Details of Module Team Members Name | Lyn Greaves | David Mackory | Caroline Walsh | School | West London International Business School | West London International Business School | West London International Business School | Email | Lyn.greaves@tvu.ac.uk | David.mackrory@uwl.ac.uk...
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...the synthesis of these two styles were used to calm the different viewpoints. Alvar Aalto’s works were started from classicism, modernism, and to functionalism. His designs are so special, mature and have his personal touch until they are hard to be imitated. All of his works are always related to environment, aesthetic and also function. For the environment part, Aalto believed that all the excellent ideas come from the small minutiae of human daily activities. Besides that, he was a journalist before and his poets were inseparable from natural material and light. (The Aalto Card in the Conflict between Postmodernism and Modernist Tradition in Finland, Anni Vartola,...
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...Critical Thinking Student Development Unit 2005/06 [pic] [pic] Welcome! This booklet contains all the handouts and information that you will need for the Critical Thinking workshop held at the Student Development Unit. As well as the exercises we’ll be working on during the session, you will also find guidance that you can keep for future reference, such as advice on active learning and intelligence, models for critical thinking skills, and questions to help you think critically. When you are asked to complete an academic assignment, your tutor will be looking for evidence of these three skills: • Gathering of complex material • Making sense of that complex material • Communicating your understanding of that complex material to an informed reader.[1] The ‘making sense’ stage is the one we tend to neglect out of fear that we may not have anything of value to contribute. But, as the eminent thinker Edward De Bono puts it: ‘Thinking is a skill that can be improved by training, by practice and through learning how to do it better. Thinking is no different from any other skill and we can get better at the skill of thinking if we have the will to do so.’[2] We hope that this handbook will help you to develop strongly argued and well-structured pieces of work, and encourage you to build critical thinking into every aspect of your academic life. Be prepared to make some changes to how you work – if you always...
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...Active Learning in Higher Education http://alh.sagepub.com/ Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action Nick Zepke and Linda Leach Active Learning in Higher Education 2010 11: 167 DOI: 10.1177/1469787410379680 The online version of this article can be found at: http://alh.sagepub.com/content/11/3/167 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Active Learning in Higher Education can be found at: Email Alerts: http://alh.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://alh.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://alh.sagepub.com/content/11/3/167.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 26, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from alh.sagepub.com by guest on December 16, 2012 Article Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action Nick Zepke and Linda Leach Abstract Active Learning in Higher Education 11(3) 167–177 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1469787410379680 alh.sagepub.com School of Educational Studies, Massey University, New Zealand Since the 1980s an extensive research literature has investigated how to improve student success in higher education focusing on student outcomes such as retention, completion and employability. A parallel research programme has focused on how students engage with their studies and what...
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...Copyright © 2013 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-180360-1 MHID: 0-07-180360-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-180359-5, MHID: 0-07180359-9. E-book conversion by Codemantra Version 1.0 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill Education eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please visit the Contact Us page at www.mhprofessional.com. Trademarks: McGraw-Hill Education, the McGraw-Hill Education logo, 5 Steps to a 5 and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of McGraw-Hill Education and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property...
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...Course: MGT. 304 Advanced Business Communication | Instructor: Mr. Charlie E. Hardy | Course Credit Hours 3 | Instructor’s Office: 311-A Business Administration | Instructor’s Office Hours: MW 9:00-11:00-3:00-4:00-T 3:00-5:00-R 9:00-11:00 | Instructor’s Email Address: chardy@alasu.edu | Instructor’s Office Phone: (334)229-5066 | Prerequisites: All courses in sequence prior to this course including: ENG... 131, ENG... 132, MGT. 204 | MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the College of Business Administration is to train its students to become ethical entrepreneurs and professionals capable of succeeding in a competitive global environment. DEADLINE FOR COURSE WITHDRAWAL: The last day for withdrawal is stipulated in the official semester’s Schedule. The deadline for withdrawal from a course for the Fall 2011 semester is Thursday, October 13, 2011 COURSE DESCRIPTION POLICIES ADA Accommodation & Alternative Testing Under ADA, any student requiring alternative formats for testing and/or handouts for this course, or other types of accommodation, due to a handicapping condition, should advise the instructor within the first week of classes and must present the appropriate documentation Attendance, Exam & Assignment Makeup Policy UNIVERSITY ATTENDANCE POLICY Effective Fall Semester 2009 Each student is expected to attend all lectures, seminars, laboratories and field work for each registered class, including the first class session, in order to verify...
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...CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents the pieces of literature and studies that were found relevant to the topic. An Integrated School Management System plays a great role in simplifying the task of employees at school and gratifying the needs of the customers and officials of the schools. There are different products from different companies that offered school management system to sustain the necessity and will handle jobs such as admission and marketing support, student information and enrollment system, student service management and student performance or the grading system. Foreign Literature Super Technologies Inc. is an innovative IT company which was established by Rehan Ahmed and Suzanne Bowen in Florida, USA. The company offered different software products for management services such as the school management system. According to the owner, a School Management System is a great on-line support that can help with the daily school management routines and also can save time and get a full control access with the school tasks. The main principle of the system is security – the security subsystem supports dividing users into several groups having its own set of rights for viewing and changing data. The systems’ highest reliability is based on transactions. Transactional system never allows data to be lost or corrupted because of accidents such as electricity failure and hardware malfunction and all the...
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...These brief notes are not intended to replace existing style guides for essay writing. The bible of style guides, by the way, is generally held to be The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993). But this is a large and daunting publication; few but professional editors navigate with confidence amid its complexities. So in an effort to produce a very abbreviated guide useful for art history students, I have assembled a few notes here that I hope will prove useful. I first assembled this information in typescript form in 1989 and circulated it to students who wanted some guidelines. In 1993, I issued the same material as a brochure. When that was exhausted, I decided in May 1996 not to reprint the brochure, but rather to put the information up on the Web. (That's a pretty good indication of the way that changes in technology have affected teaching in the past six years, at least in my courses.) I have to say that niceties of tabs and indents seem to elude me with this program that I am using, so on occasion the guidelines will suggest a format that I am not following here. We are all learning, still... Your thoughts on this compilation would be welcomed. Please send them to: Geoffrey Simmins Art Department, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 (403) 220-6085 (phone) (403) 289-7333 (fax) simmins@acs.ucalgary.ca (e-mail) http://www.ucalgary.ca/~simmins/index.html Structure of an Art History Paper A typical art history paper...
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...An Essay: An evaluation of how workplace practice is influenced and directed by a specific social policy. Social policy is “the theoretical pursuit of norms about how we think society ‘ought’ to behave” (Alcock et al. 2008) in action it consists of plans and interventions put in place by the government and social services to improve the wellbeing of society. There are five main areas influenced by social policies derived to improve services for the classic welfare state namely, education, housing, social security, health and social work. Social policy is intimately concerned with how to address and ameliorate social problems and with the analysis of the success or failure of policies designed to improve welfare and wellbeing (Alcock et all. 2008:2-3) Historically social policy can be seen as far back as 1388 when “attempts were made to fix wages and to limit the mobility of labour which may cause wages to rise” (Alcock, 2008:9) a more methodical system of poor relief was introduced in Victorian times, the Elizabethan Poor Law Acts of 1598 and 1601 to house and provide work for the poor under the direction of local parishes. Following this the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 set the foundations for social policy and the modern welfare state today by changing the way that poor law was dealt with, it was streamlined into universal laws and principles that towards the end of the 18th century prompted formation of the English government. The...
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...good ones, or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Bad study habits include skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of studying, and losing your work. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. Basically it means that you are doing the best you can to get the grades you want. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. The manner with which you consistently use to study for school or college or even for next day lesson plans if you're a teacher. Study Habit of every student is one of the most important factors that affect his or her understanding regarding a certain subject. It means, if a student possesses poor study habits, she has a greater chance of getting failing grades, if compare to a students who has a good study habit. But “habit” as it was defined from the Introduction to Psychology, means “a learned, or fixed way of behaving to satisfy a given motive”. By this definition alone, we can say that the person involves is the one making or forming his own habit. Maybe, habits can be affected by outside interference like his environment, his attitude toward his comparisons, his teachers and the books and reading materials around him, even the place where...
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...Writing Good Multiple-Choice Exams Dawn M. Zimmaro, Ph.D. Measurement and Evaluation Center Telephone: (512) 232-2662 Web: www.utexas.edu/academic/mec Location: Bridgeway Building, 2616 Wichita Street Address: P.O. Box 7246, Austin, TX 78713-7246 Last revised August 19, 2004 1 Table of Contents SECTION Goals of the workshop The KEY to Effective Testing Summary of How Evaluation, Assessment, Measurement and Testing Terms Are Related Course Learning Objectives Abilities and Behaviors Related to Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Illustrative Action Verbs for Defining Objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy Examples of Instructional Objectives for the Cognitive Domain Resources on Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain and Writing Educational Objectives Test Blueprint Description of Multiple-Choice Items Multiple-Choice Item Writing Guidelines Guidelines to Writing Test Items Preparing Your Students for Taking Multiple-Choice Tests Sample Multiple-Choice Items Related to Bloom’s Taxonomy More Sample Multiple-Choice Items Good versus Poor Multiple-Choice Items Activity: Identifying Flawed Multiple-Choice Items Scenario-Based Problem Solving Item Set An Alternative Multiple-Choice Method Guidelines for Administering Examinations Analyzing Multiple-Choice Item Responses Activity: Item Analysis PAGE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11-14 15-17 18 19 20-22 23-24 25-26 27-29 30-32 33-34 35 36-38 39 Last revised August 19, 2004 2 Goals of the Workshop Multiple-choice...
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...Visualizing Research This page intentionally left blank Visualizing Research A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design Carole Gray and Julian Malins © Carole Gray and Julian Malins 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Carole Gray and Julian Malins have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hants GU11 3HR England Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gray, Carole Visualizing research : a guide to the research process in art and design 1.Art – Research 2.Design – Research 3.Universities and colleges – Graduate work I.Title II.Malins, Julian 707.2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gray, Carole, 1957Visualizing research : a guide to the research process in art and design / by Carole Gray and Julian Malins. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7546-3577-5 1. Design--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Art--Research--Methodology-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Malins, Julian. II. Title. NK1170.G68 2004 707’.2--dc22 ISBN 0 7546 3577 5 Typeset by Wileman Design Printed and bound...
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...International Management, 7e (Deresky) Chapter 3: Understanding the Role of Culture 1) International firms like Starbucks and McDonald's most likely modify their business practices in Saudi Arabia because of . A) prevalent religious customs and beliefs B) poor international business relationships C) low demand for American products D) tight restrictions on foreign trade Answer: A Diff: 3 Page Ref: 91 Chapter: 3 Skill: Concept AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity 2) Women in Saudi Arabia are permitted to work alongside men as . A) lawyers B) architects C) engineers D) doctors Answer: D Diff: 2 Page Ref: 91 Chapter: 3 Skill: Concept AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity 3) All of the following statements about women in Saudi Arabia are true EXCEPT that they are . A) allowed to earn a college degree B) restricted from owning businesses C) allowed to buy designer clothing D) restricted from driving cars Answer: B Diff: 3 Page Ref: 91-92 Chapter: 3 Skill: Concept AACSB: Multicultural and Diversity 4) What is the primary reason that high-end department stores operate in Saudi Arabia given the country's dress restrictions? A) Dress restrictions only apply to certain regions of Saudi Arabia. B) Women wear designer clothes for public functions when abayas are not required. C) Wealthy men and women in Saudi Arabia are interested in the latest fashion trends. D) Saudi Arabia draws travelers from Europe who want the latest designer...
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