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?Paying Attention

Are You Paying Attention? How do your students learn? How do you assess their learning? What is the difference between a digital native and a digital immigrant?

Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher educationnext 5 years One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Choose the Right Tool GroupWise Blackboard Datatel

GroupWise…Have you used for 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… 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…. 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 Communication Content Collaboration Organization/Mgt Assessment

Synchronous Communication Virtual Conferencing Elluminate Chats Skype Asynchronous Communication Blackboard Discussion Boards Blogs Social Networks

live interactive virtual environment Communication Presentation Interaction instruction

Chats 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 authors works and the writing process: Book Raps Read Around Australia

FREE VoIP technology make audio and video phone calls from your computer Promoting Synchronous Interaction in an eLearning Environment

Discussion Board Forums 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 allmaking 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 Social Networks Keep contacts online through web interfaces MySpace, FaceBook most common 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

Microsoft Office Web-based applications (Google Apps)Google Apps YouTube/TeacherTube YouTubeTeacherTube i3D Learning objects Simulations Podcasts WebQuests

Invention of the Year (2006)

You-Tube Ignite your students imaginations Use video clips to introduce/demonstrate concepts Have students incorporate videos in their projects Have students evaluate video contentinformation literacy Have students create videos & post them to YouTube

Online community for sharing instructional videos Provides anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers Site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill

i3D Learning Objects Simulations

Podcasting Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio Automatically delivered to player –dont 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 More involved Windows Sound Recorder or Freecorder or Digital voice recorder + Podomatic Audacity + Podomatic Audacity + Blog + Feedburner

Inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. WebQuest.org History of Computers WebQuest Will Technology Elevate Higher Education?

Google/Yahoo Groups Blogs Blogger Wikis Wikispaces pbwiki Virtual Reality (2 nd Life)2 nd 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 Toolkit of online resources 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 Amistad wiki Amistad Creative Web Tools For and By Kids Welker's Wikinomics Page Eckerd College Teaching & Learning Resources wiki Teaching & Learning Resources

Horizon Project Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations USA (6 classes4 schools) Japan (1 class) Qatar (2 classes2 schools) Austria (1 class) Spain (1 class) Australia (2 classes2 schools)

WikiBooks es_of_Early_Childhood_Education/WikiText_Development_ Process Old DominionWikiText project Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for the course Started July 10, 2003mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit

Course Management Systems RSS iGoogle Slideshare Flickr Social Bookmarking de.licio.us Furl Citeulike Citeulike

RSS in Plain English

Personalize your homepage

World's largest community for sharing presentations on the web Can embed YouTube videos Can narrate presentations online Linked to LinkedIn social network 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 classBeth 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.uploaded them to Flickr

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Social Bookmarking storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks via the web Accessible to other users Importance of tagging (keywords) Examples Del.icio.us FURL citeulike

Multi-User Virtual Worlds Educational Games Educational Uses of 2 nd Life Educational Uses of 2 nd Life Second Life in Education wiki NobelPrize.org games NobelPrize.org

Assessment Respondus Rubrics Project-Based Learning Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Classroom Assessment Techniques Blackboard Test Manager