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Writers’ Toolkit for Microsoft Word…the FREE app for your English class 9 Sep 2010 | 10:36 pm
11trees is proud to announce The Writers’ Toolkit for Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010. The 11trees Writers’ Toolkit is both a free website of resources and a powerful Microsoft Word add-in that unifies ...
Annotate for Word 2007 PRO v2.0 is HERE… 18 Jan 2010 | 02:58 am
We’ve sold hundreds and hundreds of Annotate PRO licenses over the last year, and the free version has been downloaded over 10,000 times. We’re proud of what we accomplished, but we always knew that e...
The Ultimate ‘Outcome’ 18 Jan 2010 | 02:36 am
We often use the example of assessing driving skills in faculty development workshops. We like the example because most of us feel that we know a good driver when we see one (and that we’re good driv...
Who’s The Better Teacher? 29 May 2009 | 04:14 am
As we long suspected: “At the most celebrated institutions of higher education in the United States, the teaching quality of the adjuncts is many times better than that of those on the tenure tack.” ...
Outcomes Assessment and Grades 17 Feb 2009 | 05:05 pm
A couple of recent articles in Inside Higher Ed caught our eye – one on grades and grade inflation, and the other on the creation of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. It seems ...
Annotate for MAC Users 27 Jan 2009 | 03:17 pm
Thanks to some very excited English teachers and a constant stream of emails from interested Mac users, we now have a version of Annotate for Word that runs on Mac Office 2004. Yes, that was five yea...
Effective Peer Review: Leveraging the Learning Management System 1 Dec 2008 | 01:14 am
Introduction Peer review is a widely accepted practice, particularly in writing classes, from high school through college and graduate school. The goal of peer review is typically two-fold: To help ...
Annotate for Word 2003!!! 26 Oct 2008 | 09:28 am
Feedback is central to a teacher/student relationship, and the more we experiment with existing feedback tools the more we feel that e-learning technology company’s have forsaken this crucial process ...
Sustainability – high school students care… 27 Sep 2008 | 02:33 am
Like a lot of bloggers and teachers interested in technology and education, I’m a geek. It makes perfect sense to me to do just about everything I can with technology. I’m very fast with a computer, a...
Effective Peer Review Practices: Leveraging the LMS 15 Jul 2008 | 05:06 am
The folks at Waypoint Outcomes just posted a white paper that discusses best practices in designing peer review, particularly in blended (hybrid) or purely online teaching modalities. The approach de...
