Gustin+Notes

Jane's Notes

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Web based tools are the norm Reespondus! Integrating technology Difficult should level go up ???Improve 1.quality of learning improve or 2.save time…..

Basis is working with in own setting Wikis are just web sites Blackboard Work is potentially public so the kids work harder

Be careful with names but blackboard wikis are private

Backopedia Wiki

TOOLS Content Pieces are not cast in stone… Clickers? Blackboard? POPULAR is it just the novelty ???Keep them appealing?

Blackboard is it required ???

Extra help distance learning

Assessments (on line grading)

Where do you find course content?? Amount of new material great sites MIT The textbook makes us less creative.. Book often control our ideas Web 2.0 tools for class projects..

What do I want students to learn? They know what they want--but can they explain what they want. Articulate student goals/ 1.Most important outcome of the course 2.What are you not going to teach ???? or what are you going to teach?

(are skills cumulative?) Form the basis for designing assessments/ assignments Add transparency for the students Decrease time spent responding to student work….

Writing Student Goals Use specific observable language.. • VERBS Describe analyze, argue, solve, create, compare, etc Avoid vague or passive language • Goals of knowing and understanding are valuable but vague • Avoid passive language such as "Students will be exposed to} o What would a student do to demonstrate their knowledge or underestanding

Examples COURSE: American Diplomacy

By the end of the course< I want my students to: • Think like a diplomat • Negotiate a solution with an adversarial party. • Identify key elements of a treaty. • Develop an adversarial •

Course: Chemistry By the end of the course I want my students • View science as question that are constantly being reframed and investigated • Possess the chemical tools to build further knowledge • View chemistry problems as unique, requiring problem solving skills • Be interested and confident enough to read and explore independently

(Esoteric Goals) Develop an appreciation of good literature.. Comfortable in speaking a language??

Class Contribution ??? or is it participation??

Step 2. Identify the best Teaching Strategies

For higher order reasoning and critical thinking • Writing and discussion • Faculty student contact (TREMENDOUS IMPACT) • Collaborative work (Harder to manage--naturals--but must negotiate themselves) (not enough free play) • Feedback to students • Explicit standards and criteria (Fuzzy) • Problem/questions/ issues as sources of motivation • Assignment-centered course (Learn to do) vs content-centered course (we have to cover) Assignments determine if the student has met the goals. What students value (Feldman 1988)

Validity are the assignment likely to elicit the kind of learning you want? • Consider what the assignment is called • Consider context in which students produce work

Break down course Demonstrate

Identify desired results Determine acceptable evidence\ Plan learning experiences and instruction

Integrating Technology--We will do a better job because we want to solve a problem for us… That is where technology fits into learning process.

GOOD TEACHING!!!

Blackboard (adaptive release to control who sees what)

Blackboard

Help students organize course materials. • Assess materials • Audio and video • Access to websites (Link) • Assignment can be electronically submitted (Time stamp) Is the effort worth the outcome..???? WIMBA

Hyperlinks--in one place? All on one page in the assignment • Design course for me or the kids?? Like an advertisement. Supplementary materials. • Attached to assignment (course link) IGOOGLE Epsilen

Assignment-centric vs. Resource-centric courses.

Tuesday
Course Design

Display Information

• Make the information accessible Tufte!! How do you organize the materials…???? • Use of Power Point but well… • Assessment • Huge deal. • BOOKS] o The Big Test o ETS Who is qualified to go to college but turned into a test for the…. o IVY LEAGUE o The Bell Curve intelligence/ social class • intelligence /race • Intelligence/ money  Progress according to their own base line not to the masses…. Used to sort people out… Standardized test is given to private and public school alike Assessment on line--vs paper.. more to do with the type of questions. Graded or ungraded..

Blackboard Test Manager -- lot of steps Respondus DyKnow

Practice tests?? Faster the feedback occurs the better for student learning

Assignment is part of the use of the rubric…….. ICLICKER is linked to powerpoint

Step 4 Consider times and places for Learning

Aspects of the learning process • First exposure • Processing • Response • Increase time on task Involvement Teacher time in the most difficult aspects of learning. Make students responsible for first exposure. • Daily assignments that count (no busy work) • Guidance as needed (additional resources, technology extra help Use technology to creative expand and enhance the use of time/space. Do we need concrete time/space parameters….what causes the motivations On-line course materials already move away from the concrete placement Teacher bases in class problem based on results

Wednesday
Collaborative Tools • Interact with document • Associate authors with edit • Google Account Google Docs

Only works on internet connection (Microsoft Live) Reliable live connection Everyone can work on the same document at the same time • Browser • Wiki is a website • Blogger Presentation Tools Powerpoint You tube Gapminder amazing tool

Asynchronous Communication

Email and rss feed aggregators TED Talks is a good source for information (Clay Shirkie) Sir Ken Robinson Threaded discussion Boardsfaacil • On line classes make people participate • Moderator? Assign this to a student • Podcasts designed for bring played on an ipod

Synchronous Pronto only your class on Blackboard Skype Calling International also webcam picture phone Creeate an account Wimba Goto meeting

Media Tools Facilitate

YouTube Voicethread Jing Interactive Courde Tools

National Library of Virtual Manipulations

Simulation/Modeling • ATTEMPTS TO A MODEL OF A REAL WORLD • BEST SOURCES FOR CONTENT

LECTURES • TED TALKS • ITUNES UNIVERSITY

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

LIBRARY TAB ON CHIP • OXFORD ART ONLINE • JSTOR • REARCH ON LINE • ANNENBERG MEDIA LEARNER MERLOT • Course Content for teachers MIT Open Courseware

K12 instructional Media Center

INTERNET 11 (more bandwith) An educational site

Musicpath ?? Music Lesson over Internet 11 Lehigh Electron Microscope ( can be used over Internet 11) Nasa website

RSS feeds

Find content EDUTOPIA OVER THE WEB

GOOGLE SCHOLAR GOOGLE BOOKS CLUSTY Search engine BING Microspft search engine • Consumer Wolfram Alpha

Surf Canyon narrows the search plug in in firefox Web of Trust

Video Content

• You Tube • Teacher Tube • Hulu Snap z pro • Truveo • Blinkx • Yovisto

Wikis

PBS Teachers Wiki educator Flikr

Finding materials is the most time consuming No shortage of material

ARCHIVAL WEBSITE

Nothing is ever deleted totally

Danger of too much material in one fell swoop

Web 2.0 Today

Hyperlink Before web what was there????

ANY tool tat allows you to collaborate

Social Bookmarking

An item can have as many tags as one wishes Delicious Saves bookmarks on that computer and only that personal computer Flicr

Photo editing google picasa apple iphoto Microsoft photo story

Video Editing Imovie Movie maker

Twitter ???

THURSDAY
Google Reader

• Arts and Letters Daily • Web Log ed (BLOG)

Quicktime Movie

View for homework HOW • Blackboard o Upload file (use hardwire cable) on blackboard server on your course • ok for short film but not for 10-20 minute movie o Stream file file is not in blackboard but in streaming server o Van Buren .mov o Hinted for streaming (packets are sent out) each one has a header on pieces of text puts packets back in order but video is more complicated quick time pro imovie must be hinted o Stream is only on VanBuren o Inbeded 640x480 or 730x480 o Reference file in blackboard (Make ref movie) o • Website for delivering movie • • Itunes University • You tube • Teacher tube (Trailers are public domain) • You tube channels • You can create a channel of your very own o Flash makes the files small (flv.) firefox has a flash player built o ANT.com o Runs off machine Second Life?????

Technology is it a need? How will it change?? How transparent do we want to be??? Data--information?

Don't want to take away what is unique about that teacher Teachers are what is important not the course…

Why record a class?

• Student is absent • For my own gratification • View of class is different than the cameras view…… • Key or critical lessons • • Is it possible to capture a class discussion? • Podcasts can be on blackboard •

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