November 26th, 2008 by Robin Green
While your learning management system students will constitute a motley batch of learning types, many are probably strong visual-spatial learners. Luckily, the instructional tools that a learning management system provides can be used to effectively represent information spatially and with images.
Include graphs and graphic organizers in your learning material. Graphic organizers include brainstorms and idea maps, webs, plots, and illustrations like stack plots and Venn plots. Showing the relationship between ideas and images, teachers can help all students–not only visually-gifted ones–digest information more quickly.
Using your learning management system tools like Coggno‘s text tool, video tool, SCORM publisher, template tool, and question bank, engage your students in active, visually-interesting learning content.
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November 26th, 2008 by Robin Green
They say that a picture says a thousand words. To many learning management system students, this is no more than a casual reference to the power of images to conjure ideas. But for others, it’s a crucial learning concept that has both aided them and put them at a disadvantage at different points in their lives.
While many people are auditory learners who can listen to a lecture or directions with perfect ease, others are strong visual-spatial learners. As a trainer or teacher using a learning management system, you can make simple alterations in the presentation of learning material to accommodate these students.
Visual-spatial learners process information better when reading, taking notes and making lists, and learning from books, videos, and demonstrations. They use mental imagery, associating colors and shapes with ideas. Use your learning management system to create videos and incorporate visual information into your students’ learning experience.
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November 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
Use your school’s learning management system to create assignments, quizzes, projects and exams that cater to a spectrum of intelligences. Of course, you shouldn’t assign separate tasks to your students. But within the assignments and tests you create on your learning management system, provide a choice to your students. This means that within the same task, students may choose which questions or exercises to answer.
For example, students who are skilled in math may be challenged to answer all the problems on a math assignment. Students who are talented in languages may be encouraged to complete a page of exercises while others choose. Being responsive to your students’ skills is an essential premise to creating multiple intelligence-sensitive lessons on your learning management system.
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November 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
When managing your class with a learning management system, consider the multiple intelligences theory. According to Howard Gardner’s theory, there are eight intelligences: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
Even if you don’t buy his theory exactly, it’s hard to deny that everyone is differently gifted with assorted talents and personalities. Given this fact, isn’t it narrow-minded to create standardized learning systems that label children as more intelligent or less so, according to a slim and rigid set of skills?
Teachers deploying a learning management system can use it to respond to students’ diverse learning needs, creating a robust learning environment where all students can be successful. But how can teachers use a learning management system to cater to multiple intelligences in their classrooms? And how is it possible to create lesson plans that take into account disparate learning styles and skills? See the next post.
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November 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
Especially with “multiple intelligences” being the pedagogical buzzwords of the last 20 years, more and more teachers not only acknowledge but use them to their advantage in conducting lessons. Additionally, many educators are using a learning management system to organize their differentiated instruction. Their goal is to address the varied needs of their learners.
Teachers find that responding to students’ unique cultural backgrounds, interests, and world knowledge results in a more interactive and dynamic learning experience. A learning management system can help keep track of students’ progress, while providing an organizational and educational learning tool that caters to the needs of all students.
Coggno is just one growing learning management system company that understands that all learners are distinct. Coggno’s suite of tools enables interactive learning and differentiated instruction.
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November 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
Collaborating with other classrooms and teachers is worth the effort it takes to propose doing so to a colleague. Teachers who share a grade level, for example, may meet to discuss various subjects or different ways to utilize the school’s learning management system. They can also discuss solutions for a target group of students, creating a special intervention to reach them.
Another collaborative effort for teachers of similar subjects or the same grade levels is the creation of rubrics and tests on a learning management system. Testing and grading are chores that educators can share to lessen the burden.
Don’t forget, if you’re a new teacher who has experienced success in a lesson plan, student project, or learning management system tool, share your story with other teachers. No matter how little teaching experience you have, your success has the power to inspire others.
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November 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
As Robert Yates once said, “It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.” Many new teachers make the mistake of keeping to themselves when creating lesson plans and arranging work for students on a learning management system. But sooner or later they get burned out, and may realize what more seasoned teachers have come to understand: working collaboratively truly benefits everyone.
Are you a new teacher using a learning management system? If you have planning hours at your school, ask a fellow staff member if he or she would like to work together to create an interdisciplinary project, or design a task on your learning management system. Developing collaborative teacher relationships makes teaching easier, more pleasurable, and much more fun.
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November 24th, 2008 by Robin Green
How can you help prevent your readers from skipping over any of your precious courseware system content? Follow some simple guidelines to help ensure that learners won’t skim or even skip passages.
One way is to keep your sentences short. You’re aiming for a sense of flow in your courseware system content. Along with a natural voice, short sentences will help maintain text fluidity.
Additionally, in each section, the first two paragraphs should state the most important information. Courseware system learners generally read the first two paragraphs to understand what they’re about to read, and in some cases, to decide whether it’s worth reading. Another way to help prevent light scanning is to begin subheads, paragraphs and bullet points with information-charged words. Readers will take note of them when scanning the left side of your content with their F-shape behavior.
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