Ice breakers and group exercises  top^

Choose Meeting Ice Breakers Carefully!

The choice of ice breakers can provide vital energy or generate extreme discomfort. The brief article reviews six selection criteria for the best match of type of ice breaker to type of session.
Lyndsay Swinton, Management for the Rest of Us, linked 09/10
http://www.mftrou.com/meeting-ice-breakers.html

Ice Breaker Games for Large Groups

Five ice breaker activities designed for large groups.
Lyndsay Swinton, Management for the Rest of Us, linked 09/10
http://www.mftrou.com/ice-breaker-games.html

Ice Breakers

Helps you think through the objectives of an ice breaker session and then suggests various types of ice breaker you might use.
Mind Tools website, linked 09/10
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_76.htm

Ice Breakers

Lists 32 short icebreakers that you can use at the start of a training or gathering.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.residentassistant.com/games/icebreakers.htm

Icebreaker Games for Small Groups

Five trusted icebreaker games that will ease introductions, boost energy levels, spark off creative ideas or be plain fun, designed for small group activities.
Lyndsay Swinton, Management for the Rest of Us, linked 09/10
http://www.mftrou.com/icebreaker-games.html

Icebreakers and Energizers

Provides nine specific suggestions of classroom activities plus links to other possibilities.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/classmanagement/icebreakers.html#Knots

Icebreakers and Introductions

Gives 11 icebreakers that can be used in groups.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/TeacherHut/TableofContents/reflections/ice_breakers.html

Icebreakers, Warm-up, Review, and Motivator Activities

Suggestions for group activities you can use as icebreakers, for review at the end of a training session, and to motivate participants.
Don Clark, linked 09/10
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/icebreak.html

Training best practices  top^

10 Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach

Ideas of how to use edublogs in teaching.
Edublogs, Copyright 2008, linked 09/10
http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/

Asking and Answering Questions

Excellent tips on how to use questions to engage a group and facilitate learning.
UC Berkeley, Office of Educational Development, linked 09/10
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/newsletters0607/newsletter17.html

Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams

Excellent overview of the issues involved using small groups in training, with suggestions for addressing them.
Barbara Gross Davis, Tools for Teaching, linked 09/10
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations: Stop Annoying Your Audience

Six tips for effective PowerPoint presentations.
Peter de Jager, TechnoScope (November 2002), linked 09/10
http://net.educause.edu/E07/educause2007speakerresources/11172

Teaching Principles

Excellent summary of seven basic principles for effective teaching.
Carnegie Mellon University, linked 09/10
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/principles/teaching.html

Ten Ways to Make Your Teaching More Effective

Excellent suggestions on how to approach preparation, delivery, and assessment.
UC Berkeley, Office of Educational Development, linked 09/10
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/tenways.html

What the Best College Teachers Do

An overview, based on a 15-year study, of the best practices - namely, creating a learning environment where current paradigms are challenged, learners care that the paradigms don't work, and learners have emotional support to deal with the challenges to their deeply held beliefs.
Excerpts from a presentation by Dr. Ken Bain, linked 09/10
http://www.park.edu/cetl/quicktips/bain.html

Training online  top^

(My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy

Short, clear, concise principles and practices with detailed examples from Pelz' award-winning teaching experience.
Random Walk in Learning website,Bill Pelz, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 8 (3), June 2004, linked 9/10
http://elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com/2004/12/my-three-principles-of-effective.html

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Learning

Provides five criteria for evaluation shown in the three rankings of baseline, effective, and exemplary.
California State University at Chico, linked 09/10
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/rubric/aesl.shtml

Icebreakers

Provides an excellent overview of why and how to use icebreakers when training online.
Virgil Varvel, Pointers and Clickers, linked 09/10
http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2002_01/index.asp

Instructional Design and Delivery

Provides five criteria for instructional design and delivery that are displayed in the three rankings of baseline, effective, and exemplary.
California State University at Chico, linked 09/10
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/rubric/idd.shtml

Learner Support & Resources

Three criteria for an online course are displayed in the three rankings of baseline, effective, and exemplary.
California State University at Chico, linked 09/10
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/rubric/lsr.shtml

Online Organization & Design

Outlines course organization and design using five criteria shown in the three rankings of baseline, effective, and exemplary.
California State University at Chico, linked 09/10
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/rubric/ood.shtml

Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator

An overview and specific recommendations for facilitators of online instruction under these categories: pedagogical, social, managerial, and technical.
Zane L. Berge, eModerators, linked 09/10
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/teach_online.html

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice

Seven best practices with applications in online teaching.
University of West Georgia’s Distance & Distributed Ed Center, linked 09/10
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/webct/facultymanual/AfacCommun.html

Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online

Ten practices that, according to the author, contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students.
Designing For Learning website, Judith V. Boettcher, linked 08/10
http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html

Using Technology to Implement the 7 Principles of Good Teaching Practice

A terrific array of suggestions for online education structured around the seven principles. Please note the need to subscribe before using these online resources.
Teaching, Learning and Technology Group, linked 09/10
http://www.tltgroup.org/Seven/Library_TOC.htm

What Does a High Quality Online Course Look Like?

Presents six criteria for a high quality online course.
California State University at Chico, linked 09/10
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/index.shtml