Category: Classroom Technology

Free Rice! What is it?

Do you personally like quizzes? Do you give pop quizzes? Do you construct quizzes as informal, low-stakes assessments?   If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you may be interested in “Free Rice” as a tool in your classroom. The following article, “5 Ways to Enhance Student Learning Using Free Rice“, gives a …

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Blogging: A Worthwhile Learning Activity

Why Teachers and Students Should Blog This recent article, Why Teachers and Students Should Blog, offers 4 reasons and 5 tips for using blogs in the classroom for increasing student engagement and learning.   Link: http://www.edudemic.com/how-and-why-teachers-should-blog/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20K12&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-06-01%20K12%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter

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iPad App for LearningStudio (eCollege)

Pearson Learning Studio Courses app icon

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation is happy to announce that Pearson has released an update to their Pearson LearningStudio Courses app and that it is ready for download and use on the campus of A&M-Commerce.  Once you download the app, search for Texas A&M University-Commerce.  You will then be asked to login using …

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Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Resources

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation (CFEI) would like to bring more professional development opportunities to your attention. There are multiple strategies to help students understand the ethics and policies with academic honesty and integrity and to prevent plagiarism in your classroom. The CFEI would like to highlight a few of these for you …

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Blended Learning Resources

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation (CFEI) would like to highlight topical resources for faculty. This post’s focus is on Blended Learning, a hot topic for 2014. 1)    The CFEI held a Faculty Focus online seminar, 10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014 on 8/21/14 from 1:00-2:00pm at the CFEI Conference …

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