1. Alexandra M. Pickett
Associate Director . SUNY Learning Network . State University Plaza .
Albany, NY 12246 . T: 1.518.320.1393
alexandra.pickett@suny.edu . http://sln.suny.edu
http://slideshare.net/alexandrapickett
http://prezi.com/yyzcr9_btox6/
http://prezi.com/cjmoerciiegp/
http://voicethread.com/share/524903/
Examples from my online course
• http://etap687.edublogs.org – professor and student blogs for ETAP687.
http://etap687.edublogs.org/category/cooltools/ – list of cooltools.
• http://etap687.edublogs.org/course-tour/ – tour of ETAP687 (example of jing screencast).
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtxAkPP1xM – ETAP687 welcome.
• http://voicethread.com/share/450225/ & http://voicethread.com/share/38310/ – ice-breaking activities for
ETAP687.
• http://twitter.com/ETAP687 – ETAP687 text course announcements.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRqYDEfKIs & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrmCuNX2bg – video
course announcements.
• http://video.seesmic.com/videos/zoJ4Uxx9JO – ETAP687 video course announcement.
• http://groups.diigo.com/groups/ETAP687 – shared references for ETAP687.
• http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main & http://tinyurl.com/knqap9 – ETAP687 playlist of podcasted
audio student feedback.
• http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/build-it-activity-feedback-from-modules-1-2/ – pod- and screen-casted
student feedback.
• http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main – feedback
• http://www.screencast.com/t/whCXu3oj4b – feedback.
• http://www.screencast.com/t/gvb43kilynw – response to question and how to instructions.
• http://www.screencast.com/t/P8rpgTNt1O – clarification.
• http://www.screencast.com/t/hhrJp3h2 – instructions.
• http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/12/17/my-discussion-post-grading-rubric/ - discussio grading rubric.
• http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/reflections-blog-post-grading-rubric/ – blog grading rubric.
• http://tinyurl.com/5l83or – exemplar courses for observation (faculty podcasts) for students in ETAP687.
• http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1106177&page=1 – my ratings.
• http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/08/26/i-teach-like-a-girl/ & http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/08/11/83/ –
student comments/quotes about course.
Cooltools
• Edublogs – http://edublogs.org – free blogs for educators (wordpress).
• Voicethread – http://voicethread.com/ – collaborative, multimedia slide show.
• Diigo – http://diigo.com – social bookmarking.
• Twitter – http://twitter.com – microblog.
• Gcast – http://www.gcast.com – podcasting.
• Voki - http://www.voki.com/ - avatar. http://etap687.edublogs.org/2010/04/07/hi/
• Posturous – http://posturous.com - blog you can post anything to via email & have it update other stuff.
• Ning – a social platform. http://tinyurl.com/28spskh - alternatives to ning.
• Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/ - online notebook.
• Rockyou – http://www.rockyou.com– example animation made with Rockyou –
http://etap687.edublogs.org/secondlife-if-my-avatar-could-talk/
• Animoto – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP40bLdmJ_4 – example slide animation created w/animoto –
http://animoto.com/projects
• Wordle – http://www.wordle.net/ – word clouds.
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2. • Tagul - http://tagul.com/- w0rdle alternative, the difference is that the words in the tag cloud generated are
clickable!!!
• Flavorsme - flavors.me – formerly meeid, social media aggregator and online résumé.
• Prezi – http://prezi.com/ – zooming prezo editor alternative to powerpoint.
• SLN teaching presence survey – http://sln.suny.edu/teachingsurvey – improve your online course!
• Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – record and edit sound.
• Skype – http://about.skype.com/ – voice/video/chat/file share.
• Jing – http://www.jingproject.com/ – screen capture.
• Seesmic – http://video.seesmic.com/ – online video blog/video threaded asynchronous discussion.
• The flip – http://www.theflip.com/ – video camera.
• Youtube quick capture – http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_quick_capture – capture video directly into
youtube.
• Polldaddy – http://www.polldaddy.com/ – online polls.
• Mogulus – http://www.mogulus.com/ – watch, produce, record live web broadcast.
• Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/ – web broadcast.
• Facebook groups and pages – http://whyfacebook.com/2008/11/25/facebook-groups-vs-facebook-pages-which-
is-best/ – social network.
• Flickr groups – http://www.flickr.com/groups/ – group foto sharing.
• Drop.io – http://drop.io/about – online collaboration and file sharing.
• Dropbox – http://dropbox.com/tour - dropbox is software that lets you store, share, back up & sync your files
online & across computers.
• Meebo/meebome – http://www.meebo.com/ – web page chat.
• Mindmeister – http://www.mindmeister.com/ – online mind mapping.
• Moodle – http://moodle.org/ – open source learning management system.
• Rate my Professor – http://www.ratemyprofessors.com – Prof. rating directory.
• Second Life – https://join.secondlife.com & http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php – 3D user-created
virtual world.
• Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/ – photo sharing.
• Slideshare – http://slideshare.net/ – slide and document sharing.
• Web 2.0 web applications index – www.go2web20.net – web 2.0 directory.
• Map of the world 2.0 – http://www.appappeal.com/web-2-0-application-world-mosaic/ – web 2.0 directory.
Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/user/SUNYlearningnetwork
• http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=10135682177CBD2D – PSWC Competencies for Online Teaching
Success (COTS). & http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2B2D95F792BD3802 – PSWC Strategies for
Managing the Online Workload.
• A Vision on Students Today – http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
• Did you know? http://youtube.com/watch?v=rjKBsfk_O8c
• The Machine is Us/ing Us - http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Blogs
1. http://etap687.edublogs.org – my personal blog/course blog.
2. http://slneducation.edublogs.org/ - my work blog.
Articles
Ten Ways Online Education Matches, or Surpasses, Face-to-Face Learning, Kassop, Mark - The Technology
Source Archives, at the University of North Carolina, May/June 2003,
http://technologysource.org/article/ten_ways_online_education_matches_or_surpasses_facetoface_learning/
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0, John Seeley Brown & Richard P. Adler (2008),
Educause Review, vol. 43, issue 1.
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MindsonFireOpenEducationt/45823 or
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0811.pdf
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3. “Do online students dream of electric teachers?” Jason Scorza (2005). Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks,
Vol. 9, issue 2. http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v9n2/pdf/v9n2_scorza.pdf
(My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy, William E. Plez, JALN, Volume 8, Issue 3 - June 2004.
The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning, Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2007.
http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=524&CategoryID=68
Assessment and Online Teaching, Australian Flexible Learning Quick Guide Series,
http://pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/guides/assessment.pdf
Join my networks!
1. http://www.twitter.com/alexpickett
2. http://www.slideshare.net/alexandrapickett/slideshows
3. http://www.youtube.com/user/alexandrapickett
4. http://video.seesmic.com/alexandrapickett
5. http://www.diigo.com/profile/alexandrapickett & http://del.icio.us/alexandrapickett/
6. http://www.screencast.com/users/alexandrapickett
7. http://twitter.com/slnsolsummit & http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org/
8. http://flickr.com/photos/alexandrapickett
9. http://friendfeed.com/alexandrapickett & http://facebook.com/alexandrapickett
10. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrapickett
11. Alejandra Subagja in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Learning%20Network/128/128/0
12. Skype: alexandrapickett
13. http://groups.diigo.com/group/slnonline
14. http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/
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