1. Technology What’s Here and What’s Coming

2. Tech Quiz

3. Ask some questions / share your thoughts http://padlet.com/wall/63byt35zuo19 http://tinyurl.com/nkbe4eo

4. Personal and Professional Tech Back up your data! Refine your workflow Google Drive Microsoft One Drive Dropbox Online External Hard Drive Thumbdrive Offline

5. Know the EULA "We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request." Google

6. Know the EULA "You, and not Dropbox, are responsible for maintaining and protecting all of your stuff. Dropbox will not be liable for any loss or corruption of your stuff, or for any costs or expenses associated with backing up or restoring any of your stuff." Dropbox

7. Know the EULA Microsoft “When you transmit or upload Content to the Services, you're giving Microsoft the worldwide right, without charge, to use Content as necessary: to provide the Services to you, to protect you, and to improve Microsoft products and services.“

8. Personal and Professional Tech Know that nothing online is truly secure Recognize that your approach to privacy is likely much more conservative than your students’ We want our students to get jobs and succeed. Their digital footprint needs to be clean

9. Technology in the Classroom Do you allow students to use technology during your class? Trends: Traditional Laptop Tablet computers Google Chromebook Good and bad of each?

10. Higher Education Tech Trends 1.Ubiquity of Social Media 2.Integration of F2F, online, and hybrid learning 3.Data driven learning and assessment 4.Students shift from consumers to creators 5.Agile approaches to change 6.Evolution of online learning *2014 Educause report

11. Online Teaching and Learning ✤ One in four students took an online class during the fall of 2012 ✤ 2 out of 3 professors feel that online class learning outcomes are substandard ✤ However over half were excited about the potential of online learning National Center for Education Statistics

12. Online Teaching and Learning Evolving yearly, but will it improve higher education or change it fundamentally? ✤ From 1969 to 2009, eligible tenure-track positions have plummeted from 78% to 33% From 1969 to 2009, eligible tenure-track positions have plummeted from 78% to 33% ✤ Some, like Frank McCluskey, attribute this directly to the proliferation of online classes and for-profit universities ✤ Half of student loan defaults happen at for-profit colleges, though they only educate 10% of higher ed students (2010 study led by Senator Tom Harkin) ✤ University of Phoenix enrollment is half of what it was 5 years ago

13. Online Teaching and Learning ✤ What works? ✤ What needs improvement? ✤ Successes, failures? Share your story

14. Online Teaching and Learning ✤ Student engagement is paramount ✤ Beyond the discussion board ✤ Beyond the online video/lecture ✤ Synchronous vs. asynchronous ✤ Google Hangout – 10 maximum users ✤ Synchronous discussion/instruction using the chat forum ✤ Take advantage of multimedia (audio/video/graphics) ✤ Make students blog or lead a discussion

15. The shift to M-learning ✤ Mobile learning is considered to be a big component in the ever-evolving field of distance education ✤ Tablets and phones will be used more frequently to access course materials ✤ My million dollar idea? Twitter style interface for your course discussions

16. Video and D2L ✤ D2L supports direct upload of files, but it is problematic ✤ If you don’t use a universally standard file type, students will have difficulties opening it ✤ It won’t stream, they have to download it first ✤ Youtube is my preferred method ✤ Streaming is key ✤ Embed your video right into D2L ✤ Make video unlisted if you don’t want others to come across it

17. Adding Audio ✤ Adding audio to your online courses is easy ✤ Can record directly into D2L but it is problematic, runs through Flash and doesn’t always work ✤ If you have a traditional laptop without an SSD, Use an external USB mic when doing your recordings ✤ Don’t make things too lengthy. 1 hour is too long. Break it up into shorter sections/modules ✤ Use Voicethread!! Use Voicethread!!

18. Digital Textbooks

19. ✤ 4 Textbook manufacturers dominate the higher education market ✤ Profit margins for these companies are routinely over 10%* ✤ Schools are increasingly exploring ways to offer free or cheap textbooks to students ✤ Average cost right now to students is $1,100 per year (2 semesters) ✤ Students are countering this by pirating or simply refusing to read the textbooks ✤ Open textbook movement is gaining momentum ✤ You, as faculty, can have a direct impact on these costs to students *Bureau of Labor Statistics

20. Create an e-Text ✤ You can create your own electronic text to share with your students ✤ They can use this on any of their devices ✤ Apple iBooks Author is incredible in the way it allows you to create your own text

21. iPad Apps ✤ Dropbox ✤ Evernote ✤ iThoughts mindmapping iThoughts ✤ Syncpad Syncpad ✤ Baiboard (free) Baiboard ✤ What do you all recommend?

22. Web 2.0 Resources ✤ Evernote Evernote ✤ Stoodle (share an interactive whiteboard with anyone for real-time collaboration) Stoodle ✤ Weebly (you or your students build a website easily) Weebly ✤ Infogr.am (example showing survey data) Infogr.amshowing survey data ✤ Text2mindmap Text2mindmap ✤ Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere ✤ Google Drive (awesome for student surveys) Google Drive ✤ Dropbox Dropbox

23. Web 2.0 Resources ✤ Video Notes (take notes from videos and they sync up) Video Notes

24. Questions? Chris.greer@gcsu.edu www.drgreertech.com