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A Vision of Students Today
Knowledge is specific content
Learners are
empty vessels to
be filled with
knowledge
Knowledge is created
Learning is a collaborative social endeavor
A Paradigm Shift
Acquiring 21st century skills such as higher level
thinking, stronger communication abilities, and
collaborative learning will encourage student
engagement and increase academic achievement
(Department of Education, 2002)
Are You Paying Attention?
Are You Paying Attention?
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How do your students learn?
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How do you assess their learning?
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What is the difference between a digital
native and a digital immigrant?
Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
 One year or less
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Social Networking
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User-Created Content
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Mobile Phones
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Virtual Worlds
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New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
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Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
Choose the Right Tool
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GroupWise
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Blackboard
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Datatel
GroupWise
To Do Your Job
For Your
Students
…and Beyond!
Blackboard
Datatel
Content
Development
Security
Issues
Communication
Organization/
Tools
Management
Tools
Collaboration
Tools
Plagiarism
Assessment
Beyond
Copyright
Tools
Google
GroupWise…Have you used for
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Filtering and finding mail
Mailing Lists
Proxy access
Folders you can access from anywhere
Delaying delivery of items
Organizing your schedule
Inviting others to meetings
Blackboard…Do you…
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Teach online?
Use Blackboard to organize your
course?
Use Blackboard to extend your f2f
course?
It can be a lifeline for your students…
Datatel….Can you….
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Create a faculty icon?
Check registration?
Check/Create rosters ?
Check student schedules ?
Find advisee information ?
Check room availability, course loads,
instructor schedulesv
Help or hindrance?
Choose the Right Tool
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Communication
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Content
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Collaboration
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Organization/Mgt
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Assessment
GroupWise
To Do Your Job
For Your
Students
…and Beyond!
Blackboard
Datatel
Content
Development
Security
Issues
Communication
Tools
Organization/
Management
Tools
Collaboration
Tools
Plagiarism
Assessment
Beyond
Copyright
Tools
Google
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Synchronous Communication
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Virtual Conferencing
Elluminate
Chats
Skype
Asynchronous Communication
 E-mail
 Blackboard Discussion Boards
 Blogs
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Social Networks
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“live” interactive virtual environment
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Communication
Presentation
Interaction
instruction
Chats
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Usually organized around a particular topic
Interaction through typed messages
Works well for brainstorming or if format is well
structured ahead of time.
Live online Author Discussions: extend students’
understanding of a particular author’s works and the
writing process:
 Book Raps
 Read Around Australia
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FREE VoIP technology
make audio and video phone calls from
your computer
Promoting Synchronous Interaction
in an eLearning Environment
Discussion Board Forums
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Time and place independent
Time between messages allows for reflection
Speakers of other languages have added time
to read and compose answers
Responses can be seen by all—making
learning more visible
Messages archived--providing a database of
interactions
Blogging in Education
Blogging: Most Recognized Example
Blogs in Plain English
Social Networks: Connect Users into
Communities of Trust (or interests)
Social Networking
in Plain English
Social Networking Software
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Social Networks
 Keep contacts online through web interfaces
 MySpace, FaceBook most common
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Social Calendaring
 Share agendas for events arrangements and
meetings planning
 Groupwise, Google Calendar
Social Networks: Connect Users into
Communities of Trust (or interests)
What can you do with Pronetos?
Create your home page
Find scholars in your field
Share a paper with colleagues
Post course materials to your site
Network and collaborate with colleagues
Find research in your field
Post an announcement to your colleagues
See the message board in your discipline
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Microsoft Office
Web-based applications (Google Apps)
YouTube/TeacherTube
i3D
 Learning objects
 Simulations
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Podcasts
WebQuests
Invention of the Year (2006)
You-Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE
Ignite your students imaginations
Use video clips to introduce/demonstrate concepts
Have students incorporate videos in their projects
Have students evaluate video content—information literacy
Have students create videos & post them to YouTube
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Online community for sharing instructional
videos
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Provides anytime, anywhere professional
development with teachers teaching teachers
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Site where teachers can post videos designed
for students to view in order to learn a concept
or skill
http://www.teachertube.com
i3D
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Learning Objects
Simulations
Podcasting
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Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast
Differs from streaming audio
 Automatically delivered to player –don’t
have to click on a link to download
 Listen when you want – not when a
program is scheduled
Podcasting in Plain English
Finding Them
Making Them
Dead simple
Windows
Sound Recorder
or
Freecorder
More involved
Audacity
Audacity
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Podomatic
Blog
or
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Digital voice
Feedburner
recorder
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Podomatic
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Inquiry-oriented lesson format in which
most or all the information that learners
work with comes from the web.
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WebQuest.org
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History of Computers WebQuest
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Will Technology Elevate Higher Education?
Google/Yahoo Groups
 Blogs
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 Blogger
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Wikis
 Wikispaces
 pbwiki
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Virtual Reality (2nd Life)
Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary
Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Wikis in Plain English
Wikis:
The ultimate collaboration tool
 Special web site
 allows visitors to add, remove, edit &
change content
 Not need access to or knowledge of
web publishing software
 Collaboration
 Group members work on common
document in common location
Teaching & Learning
Resources Wiki
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Toolkit of online resources
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Course design
Course management systems
Faculty Development Resources
Online Training
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Web 2.0
Learning Theories
Learning Styles
Wikis in Education
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Amistad wiki
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Creative Web Tools For and By Kids
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Welker's Wikinomics Page
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Eckerd College
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Teaching & Learning Resources wiki
Horizon Project
http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between classrooms in
diverse geographical locations
 USA (6 classes—4 schools)
 Japan (1 class)
 Qatar (2 classes—2 schools)
 Austria (1 class)
 Spain (1 class)
 Australia (2 classes—2 schools)
WikiBooks
Started July 10, 2003—mission to create a free collection of
open-content textbooks that anyone can edit
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Current_Issu
es_of_Early_Childhood_Education/WikiText_Development_
Process
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Old Dominion—WikiText project
 Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for
the course
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Course Management Systems
RSS
iGoogle
Slideshare
Flickr
Social Bookmarking
 de.licio.us
 Furl
 Citeulike
RSS in Plain English
Personalize your
homepage
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World's largest community for sharing
presentations on the web
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Can embed YouTube videos
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Can narrate presentations online
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Linked to LinkedIn social network
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Linked to Blogger
Flickr
Teaching with Flickr
and cell phones
An art history class
combined mobile devices
with a Web 2.0 service to
assess student learning.
Beth Harris took a class to
the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, where students took
photos of art, uploaded
them to Flickr, then used
that site's tools to
comment on their
observations.
Social Bookmarking
in Plain English
Social Bookmarking
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Social Bookmarking
 storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks via the
web
 Accessible to other users
 Importance of tagging (keywords)
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Examples
 Del.icio.us
 FURL
 citeulike
Multi-User Virtual Worlds
Educational Games
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Educational Uses of 2nd Life
Second Life in Education wiki
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NobelPrize.org games
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Assessment
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Respondus
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Rubrics
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Project-Based Learning
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Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
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Blackboard Test Manager