Instructor Resources
This page provides current or prospective instructors with additional resources they need to make this course successful.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC)
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Assessment
- ClassBadges: An online tool that allows teachers to award badges to their students
- Reward Students' Achievements with ClassBadges: Review on why and how to use ClassBadges in your classroom
- Incentivize students with badges: Edmodo shows how to award, create, and add badges from other teachers
- Student badges on Edmodo: Read how this teacher creates badges to help motivate his students
Social Media
- 4 things you need to know to help your students manage their online reputation: This infographic shows the importance of having a digital presence and what they need to be aware of to create, manage, and protect theirs
- Designing a MOOC using social media tools: This wiki helps educators explore the pros and cons of various social media sites and how they can be used in a MOOC
Communication and Collaboration
- Netvibes: This site helps you create a dashboard to keep track of student blogs
- gRSShopper: This free software helps aggregate and otherwise track student blogs
- Google Reader: This tool for both teachers and students helps bring blog content to you through an in-box interface that keeps track of which blog entries you've read
- Google Docs: An obvious tool to encourage online storage, student commenting and collaboration
- MOOCMOOC tools: A list of dozens of helpful tools with practical application in the classroom