Presenters: Carolyn Kraut with Michael Edwards How can social networking tools be used with students to enhance learning? The presentation can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/teachersbestweapon/. (The presenters are using prezi.com for the presentation and it is a really cool way of mixing up presentations.) Do you ban social media in your school or classroom? For […]
Read More »I found the following video online and it made me think a little bit on how content can be delivered to support online learning. (hat tip: American Digest) Sean Carroll is a theoretical research physicist at Caltech. The format he uses here could easily be adapted to different courses on our campus. I am not […]
Read More »EdTech is a little late to the game, but we finally set up a YouTube account for our group. Although we have access to other ways of posting videos, I figured YouTube has some versatility that our other methods don’t have. However, the quality of our videos has diminished somewhat. Compare the video below to […]
Read More »I recently had the opportunity to demonstrate a variety of technologies that EdTech supports to several members of the faculty on campus. I put together a few presentations and gave them a brief overview of what we had to offer, based on a request from the department chair. EdTech would be more than happy to […]
Read More »Wimba, Windows, MathCAD, etc., in Disparate Courses [Evaluate this presentation] We will describe how one may use Wimba (in Blackboard) to help in teaching very different types of courses. For example, in a Linear Algebra course, one can use MathCAD in a computer lab; in a Foundations of Mathematics course, one may use Notepad and […]
Read More »Integrating Wikis into Courses and Collaborations [Evaluate this presentation] Methodist College of Nursing is integrating the use of wikis in courses and cross-campus collaborations using the free collaboration tool from Google called Google Docs. One of our undergraduate courses, Senior Seminar, will be highlighted with examples of how Google Docs is being used and why […]
Read More »Incorporating Rich Multimedia Content into Web Courses: Video and Audio on a Budget [Evaluate this presentation] How can we keep Web courses from being mere reading courses, and offer the same multimedia Web resources to our Web students that we do in the classroom? Moreover, how can we do it with little or no money? […]
Read More »In-class Methods meet Online Tools: A Hybrid Class [Evaluate this presentation] This presentation explores class participation, learning outcomes, and the role of communication technologies in language learning and teaching. Driven by sound pedagogical strategies, traditional in-class activities are examined through the prism of Internet-based, multi-user, interactive learning tools. New instructional options (blogs, wikis, Audacity on […]
Read More »Flexible Learning, 100 Seats at a Time [Evaluate this presentation] A combination of instructor-produced videos and web sites, one-on-one tutoring, and automated (partial credit) grading allows students to tailor their own learning experience in an engineering course with 300 students. View demonstration pages at http://web.mst.edu/~mecmovie/ and view sample videos at http://web.mst.edu/~ide110-1/lessons/02/index.html.
Read More »Do blogging and other Web 2.0 tools have a negative impact on academic writing? One professor in England has noticed a substantial decrease in the output of his academic publications even as his blogging has increased over the past couple of years. I think he makes a couple of extremely valid points: The motivation to […]
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