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Connecting People With Online Resources: The Instructional Architect (Pbl), Mimi Recker, Andrew Walker, Heather Leary, Linda Sellers, Lei Ye, M. Brooke Robertshaw Dec 2011

Connecting People With Online Resources: The Instructional Architect (Pbl), Mimi Recker, Andrew Walker, Heather Leary, Linda Sellers, Lei Ye, M. Brooke Robertshaw

Linda Sellers

The National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) has funded a large initiative to catalog collections of high-quality online resources into the National Science Digital Library (nsdl.org). The mission of the NSDL is to help improve education for all teachers and students. The purpose of this module is to help you find high-quality online resources, learn strategies for incorporating them into a free software tool called the Instructional Architect, and use these projects in an instructional situation. In this module, you will learn to access online resources and to use tools to help solve instructional or learning problems or issues that you currently …


Reforming J101: Establishing An Online Presence, Carrie Buchanan Dec 2010

Reforming J101: Establishing An Online Presence, Carrie Buchanan

Carrie Buchanan

Establishing an online presence is essential for anyone hoping for a career in journalism today. Increasingly, journalists in all media are expected to write for websites, maintain their own blogs, and use social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to promote their work, interact with readers, and find new sources. A key question for journalism educators, however, is when to start the process of establishing those online skills. This paper examines what can be done in an introductory journalism course at a liberal arts college, where journalism is not necessarily the career students have in mind. It suggests techniques …