Resources

Frost and Stommel capture a 14-minute YouTubevideo of a collaborative writing session on Google Docs (now Google Drive). In the accompanying blog post, they offer suggestions for assigning collaborative writing to students, along with persuasive arguments about the pedagogical goods of collaborative writing.

This graphic, with relevant links to Wikipedia, attempts to briefly describe all the established learning theories. It also maps the theories graphically 1) to one another, 2) to their key concepts and "world views," 3) to the learning theorists that developed them, and 4) to the scientific disciplines from which they arise.

Preparing the way to advocate for a more "brain based" approach to diverse learners, Inglis asserts that even the creator of "multiple intelligences," Howard Garner, announced a decade ago that he was "over" the theory and that educators need to "move on."

Acknowledging that "there certainly are important abilities outside of what IQ tests measure," McGreal argues that calling these "intelligences" is unsupported by scientific warrants, and may produce needless confusion for educators. Further, he finds that such varying "intelligences" are "explainable in terms of existing concepts of personality and general intelligence."

Virtual visits to 3D religious sites and buildings.

Video. Collection of videos covering such topics as Religions of the World, Church History, and interviews with religious scholars.

Similar to Pinterest,but for teaching. This site helps you create a vVirtual "pinboard" for course projects Students can pin any form of multimedia content and create a digital learning portfolio.

Ideal for group projects. Similar to Googledocs. Members can work on a project and save to shared cloud space.

Ideal for group projects. Members can bookmark and tab webpages and highlight important passages for each other.

CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.