STEVE JOBS

STEVE JOBS
Quotes from his 2005 commencement address
at Stanford University.

“Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.” -- Steve Jobs, 2005 commencement address, Stanford University.

On starting over…”The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

“Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don’t settle.”

“I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

On “Getting your affairs in order”.

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it and that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish…I’ve always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin a new I wish that for you…stay hungry, stay foolish.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&feature=featured

FUSION 11 Accessibility

Pam Martin
Pam.marin@desire2learn.com

Resources will be available
In this course
In the Fusion LOR
Via her ePortfolio presentation

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web and Web content.

Students should not have to identify themselves in your course.

Assistive Technology - Assisstive technology

Usinga learning evnironment with a screen reader

A common misconception of readers is that is that you have to listen to the whole page. Student: "I don't have time to listen to the whole page, I skim just like others might."

Fields need to be labeled properly.

It's important that everyone knows about accessibility.


Screen readers
JAWS is the most people screen reader
NVDA free open source (For simulation)

Input devices-many visually disabled don't use mouse

House Contrast stylesheets to increase the overall contrast of the content on a screen

Magnification Sotware--many available through third party

Auditory Disability

Webaim -Great website

insdedeafculture.com
nad.com
webaim.com
deafculture.com

Language and communication -- word choice, becareful of bias. Choose accurate, neutral language that best represents the groups to which refers can ehp to indicate respect.

http://www.sigaccess.org/community/writing_guidelines/

Browser Accessibility Features:
Internet Explorer Accessibility Features
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie7/
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie8/
Firefox Accessibility Features
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Accessibility
Google Chrome Accessibility Features
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility
Safari Accessibility Features
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
Opera Accessibility Features
http://www.opera.com/support/access/

Web Accessibility Standards
Technical specifications, guidelines, and standards for Web practice are constantly being developed. The primary group developing Web standards is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). W3C is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
http://www.w3.org/

UNIVERSAL DESIGN (key words accessibility and inclusiveness)

Accessibility Checklists
Once you have an understanding of common accessibility issues, you may find it useful to create or use an Accessibility Checklist. These checklist documents are useful in ensuring that common barriers are avoided, and for creating an inventory of possible issues and their resolutions.
Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Web accessibility evaluation tools can give quick feedback based on your page markup and styling that allows you to quickly identify potential accessibility issues. One such tool is WAVE, a Web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM.
WCAG Guidelines
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative has developed a set of standards known as WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Detailed information on the WCAG guidelines and some resources for how to test for, and meet the guidelines, is available on the W3C’s WCAG site.

www.nvda-project.org (free screen reader program)

There should only be one heading and you should use descriptive titles in the headings.

USE MOZILLA FIREFROX so you can use right click, View Fangs

Juicy Studio
Quality Assurance, Luminosity Contrast ratio

RECOMMENDED FONT is SANS-SERIFF

Select text you want to have as a heading, then use the dropbox by the paragraph (next to font on advanced tab) to select the heading assignment (ie Heading 1)or you can use html code (add h1 or h2 code)

Start, programs, accessories, NOTEPAD (to get rid of layered garbage underneath text that makes moving to html funky. So cutcopy from text into notepad and then copy from there to go back to html form.

W3Schools for html code cheat sheets

Unordered lists for bullets!

Don't use "click here" only need description otherwise it is too vague in the link list.

TIP instead of having to go into html view, you can from within the html editor type within the link text to add additional info.

When possible, avoid tables, or at least make sure it is labeled properly.

TABLES: (Within html editor)
right click in cell, table cell, table cell properties, (then change headers/columns)because then you can save in notepad and then copy and change text for future similiar tables (ie assignment schedules)

Can change color code (html) in the style sheet and it will automatically change in all .css

When dealing with the .css changes delete above h1

Elevate Your Course by Going Digital

Pam Martin
Pam.martin@desire2learn.com

Look up Karen Mcalla (sp?) good resource for ADA

Color Schemes (free schemes out on the web) Colorschemer.com

Consistent look and feel (color and font)

Style sheet allows, contemporary design (D2L has 5 preformed packages in the LOR in the community site) for a fresh contemporary design

Style sheet that shared files images (check with IT)

Embedding Videos
YouTube usually defaults to iFrame (so you can click on "old embed code") iframes won't work in news item

YouTube is an http site so that's why internet explorer flags and sends much (double negative message to say "no" and allow) or you can save yourself this by either typing in the "s" to the link code http://youtube/.....) or by clciking the "use HTTPS button

Can unclick:"Show suggested videos when the video finishes"


Apply in navigation page/template
Apply on homepage

HTML
Use the HTML editor
THis is the most effective way to communicate within an online course. Unlike word, powerpoint or pdf no additional program is needd to veiw this content.

Use paste from a word into

Cascading Sytle Sheets (CSS) in community center from learning repository. Download to desktop which comes zipped)

(To get to the community session for D2L you can individually enroll or have someone send an excel sheet with all that need to be enrolled)

SHORTCUTS
* SHIFT ENTER will get you the line right below and not like the start of a new paragraph with more space.
*In excel spreadsheet ALT ENTER will allow you to add a second line within the same cell
*F5 refresh


Formatting Content

LEARNING REPOSITORY from community center

Open up notepad, copy and paste (plain text)

Juicy Studio does a contrast study of your conten (?) color contrast analyzer. It even tells you the minimum size your font should be.

Cross Browser Checking (internet explorer and firefox) in order to instruct and guide students.
June 2011 23.2% of users use Internet Explorer and 42.2% use Firefox! (Much higher for firefox) Chrome 27.9 (Data comes from w3schools.com This is an excellent resource for web statistics)

Embedding is still not DOWNLOADING so you are not violating copyright.

Embed a google gadget into widegets (content, and in html code)

Tool, internet options, advanced tab (scroll to very bottom), warn about certification address mismatch* should be enabled

Get embed code go to widgets--may have problems

FLASH VIDEOS
video format recommended is flash--compression is good without a loss of quality (so you end up with small formats) Get a plugin if using an apple mobile devices (phone or ipad)

Best practice to embed and provide link to download
.flv simulates streaming vs. .swf which requires them to download
98% of people have a flash plugin
If you have a video that isn't flash (.avi or .mov) then you can upload them to youtube to convert them to flash.
Best practice is to also include an URL

Interactive (SPACE JUNK is an example)

Can convert powerpoint to flash
*add voice
*good design
*consistent graphics

simple search for a plugin

Adobe Captivate, Articulate and Camtasia are free converters on the market. Camtasia is gigantic file sizes--recommended (Adobe Captivate)

Audacity is free and can be used for audio

SoftChalk

Technology needs to be helpful. Use the best format for the content you are trying to communicate.

Create the course and then look at it from outside of the class (overall, big picture)

FUSION 11 ePortfolio From beginner to Expert in 3 hours

Terri-Lynn Brown

What is an ePortfolio

What they are:
1.carefully selected items that help a learner reflect upon and possibly demonstrate an understanding of his or her learning
2.a powerful means of personalization
3. a powerful means of supportung universal design for learning
an authentic means of assessment
a tool controlled by the student (teacher doesn't necessarily see everything)

User centric
Flexible organization
Variety of applications
tagging artifacts
Integration with the learning environment
Support for social learning

Shift in assessment practice
Learning and assessment are part of the same process
learner agency is engaged towards
*assessing their own talents and aspirations
*planning a pathway towards meaningful purposes

Social Learning (may need a "shift in Instructor Thinking")

Can link to nav bar

Artifacts an object to put into a ePortfolio

Able to STRUCTURE

Able to Tag

Linking vs uploading : LINK--why duplicate storage!

Can use multiple tags in single field with commas, "quotation marks" for duplicate word tags

Collections are groups of things. Can tag collections for mega-tagging

Add by groups (with a tag) it will pull everything in with that tag (and continue to add as new items are added with that tag.

"Add Tag to List" is automatically "And" so do tags separately as different searches so it is an "or"

NOT A DUMPING STATION--REFLECT AND CHOOSE

Presentation

Theme (colors etc.)
Banner (Title Descriptions)

Reflections can be "Associated" (connected) to selected artifacts

Exploring: what has been shared with me

Different controls about what you control and with whom

Can have ePortfolio public or not public
Individual users or groups of people (create a "sharing group")

Can add internal or exteneral (ie grandma via an email address)

You can invite someone to view portfolio. The invite is available for 3 days. You can set the view for that user too

To export presentation, go into the presentation and then click on export from there. Sends as a zip file.

Steve Binder How to Survive Teaching with a Sense of Humor

Teaching is like being a stand up comedian.

If you ask most teachers, they'd say they don't like standardized testing.

If you have a sense of humor as an educator it makes you human, makes you approachable.

Take more chances.

People are qwirky and things will go awry. Humor helps.

You can't control the wind, but you can control the sails.

Kindergartner: cute and look like toys, but they're psychotic.

Binder: We get old when we stop playing children's games.

We don't always know we are affecting kids.
It's not what you teach it's your attitude.

"I think we should videotape everyclassroom" to avoid he said/she said at parent/teacher conferences.

"Credit recovery" not "summer school".

The worst people in the office are the ones about to retire. The new faculty who have excess energy and activities.

Have the right to be happy.--Why can't we have that everywhere?

You don't HAVE to say those things, instead we choose to share.

Sometimes you're the only one who knows your doing a good job and you have to be ok with that.

Because an educator is a special person--look for 4 words: Oh, I get it.

FUSION 11 Social Media for Teaching and Learning

Tanya Joosten

httlp://tinyurl.com/yafuqz

Asked students, some results:
I want to feel connected.
Frequent communication with instructor
need to feel connected to learn
I don't use email (email as something you use to talk to "old people")
I do use social media A LOT (go to social networking sites 5 days per week and check in 4 times a day for a total of an hour per day. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of online 18-29 year olds use these sites. 45% was result for teens)
71% want to receive text messges (American teen sends and receives 50 or more messages per day or 1,500 per month).

Social Media:
Has to have a profile and need to have a list of connection which can be shared

People sharing;everybody and anybody can share anything anywhere. Status-leveling. (??)

Push communication to where students live.

Creating a course fan page is recommended over group (newsfeed). Using it to complement D2L not replace it. Put link in the Nav Bar.

Facebook is like a ladder (to send information or comment on) to connect to other communities (on and off campus)

Still getting a lot of information just from the headlines or quick view of other info being shared

Socionomics (Check to see if new video is the one linked in course) (Link Re-Tweeted)

Pewinternet.org

Best Practices with Facebook:
Fan Page--you don't see their personal info and they don't see yours
Advise to choose an image that represents the class
Need to use it consitently (once every 2 weeks-not good) Best is 3-5 a week because you don't want to be overloaded/spammed with info.
Course announcements (no grades discussed or other private info)
Opt in (put course page in scavenger hunt during orientation)

Engagement, Learning, Presence
Students felt they were talking to a real prof, got to know "them" better, increased engagement,
Helped them manage time and stay organized

Facilitate interactivity and engagement
Expanding the classroom walls:experiential learning
Professional Development

Text message send to 4044 (assessment technique) with course Hashtag (called hex in Asia)

Network and Fellow colleagues

Social Media for educators (Joosten's book) Spring 2012
#edusocmedia
Edusocmedia.wikispaces.com
Youtube.com, Twitter.com (edusocmedia)

RSS GRAFITI

professorjoosten.blogspot.com
tanyajoosten.com

FUSION11 Using Jing to Add Video Feedback in Online Courses

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Can move sun around. Take off default to Launch on startup (leave blank)

Can make snapshot or video

Snapshot can add marks to it. Save as .png file on or send to screencast.com

2 Free gigabytes per month

Image first icon, video second

First icon on bottom is share via screencast.com

History keep images in the history (click on the sun, the middle is the history)

TIPS:
Don't move your mouse too much

Save to Screencast and copy the URL from the web address bar and it's ready for linking.

Is possible to embedd video right into webpage or course

Insert STUFF icon (3rd from the right)

FIND THE PDF FROM HIS RESOURCE LIST: Joesphy Zisk zisk@calu.edu

FUSION 11 Keynote Natalie Jeremijenko The New Entertainment System`

Natalie Jeremijenko The New Entertainment System: Why wrestling rhinoceros beetles, texting fish and building swamps is the new black.`

Roundabout the icon headless social movement

Humm...getting lost with all the science and no connection yet to eLearning.

Nope...never got there.

FUSION11 eLearning and Collaboration with Adobe Connect

Can connect through your mobile device. Support through a variety of phone formats is available.

Recording possibilities

Use headset microphone

Can move stuff around (size)

Can record and archive

Can have break out rooms (with whiteboard and share space) and then with single command can bring everyone back together

Ipad app GET THIS DOWNLOADED KARI (BUT some flash is not supported on the ipad so some stuff might not work)

Google Babble chat (translates chats into other languages)

Twitter Connect can be used for backchanneling

Talking Stick (check it out)

Connectusers.com officially adobe supported place for support (blog)

Survey option through (Hands up)

Connect Exchange (resources) (Hands-up is like clicker. You can see how individual responded)

Voice overIP is standard audio.

Instant Response is integrated into AdobeConnect. I use Poll Everywhere - works in D2L easily and with PPT. http://bit.ly/c46Vo

FUSION 11 Multimedia in Desire2Learn Solutions

Annette Beck, University of Iowa
Shevaun Stocker, University of WI-Superior
Pam Martin, D2L


SUMIT a homegrown dynamic tool that is integrated into an ever changing digital curriculum

Kind of like a personalized youtube (you can comment on it)
Can highlight and comment on specific moments in video

Backend System -- too techy for me

Not scalable

Hard to stay ahead of accessibilty issues (and mobile)

PRESENTER #2
Uses JING and Screencast (A unique URL)

Tips:
Keep it short and specific
Organize your thoughts, but no scripts

IS D2L coming out with software tool for us within the LMS?

PRESENTER #3 (Pam)
Mix up for variety (must still be the right vehicle)
Address different learning styles

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Can personalize
Embedding Code


FlashVideos
Steraming is always better for copyright issues
compression is good

Powerpoint
Convert to flash
convert to pdf
add voice

Audio Files
AUDICITY (free)

5 minute maximum length

TIP Embed the video and a link to a quick file to the same video

FUSION11 Leveraging Social Media & Mobile Technology to Imporve Student Success and Retention

96% of millenials have joined a socila network
Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
If Facebokk were a country it would be the world's 3rd largest
80 % of Twitter usages is on mobile devices

52 students using socialnetwork 14% faculty
50 % of students already use social media for discussing assignments (other students)
only 5% use it to communicate with faculty
50% like use for formal T & L bume do not like friendling or following faculty

Research indicates that the more engaged students are, the more likely they are to persist.
Engagement means connecting students to faculty, students, learning materials,

On average 49% of students have smart phones nearly all have text-capable phones

CONNECT YARD
Privacy in tact
Bundles Social Media

Can send to whole class or private
Community development
Flexiblility
Shallow learning curve

Based on FTE for campus pricing. 500 users is smallest group.

FUSION 11 I didn't know I could do that!

Tami Echard, Georgia Virtual School
Courtney Perrin, Georgia Virtual School

Personalizing Courses

Userlinks (teacher can add links)
FAQs
Surveys
Quicklinks
Announcements/iFrames
Grading-Name Schemes

Userlinks
1. Allows you to quickly link important items
2. Easy way to add favorite or userfuls sites
3. Have students suggest sites
(Can organize who you'd like. You can't edit in the userlink widget. Be careful it goes to whole class and not to your personalize list otherwise whole class won't be able to see it.) (Can create a new category or add to an existing.Description shows to you and not to students. Even on Global bar it is only per class.) Can call links a "bookmark"

FAQ
Goes to the port.
Great place to store information that needs to be repeated throughout different start dates.
Keeps teachers from answering the smae question repeatedly.
Ease of use and access allows a wealth of information (class practices, test format, grading and assignment reminders) to be distributed with ease.

Can ask tech support to copy or copy/paste the FAQs (or we might be able to) from course to course or semester to semester.

SURVEYS
Poll students easily.
All students a role in decision making (ownership).
Easily determing (and store responses) alternative assignment options for students.

QUICKLINKS
Can add a video, website, etc.
Can be added in quizzes under the feedback section.

ENHANCING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Utilizing web 2.0 tools
1. iFrames
2. Embed codes
Attachment option

Shows up at bottom of screen.

Some versions of d2l have glitches with the iFrames

Can change websetting so the popup to allow or not allow this content message doesn't allows come up.

FUSION 11 Meaningful Conversations: Best Practices for Using D2L Discussion Tools

Marsha Conley

Grade their own--with cut and paste evidence

Set release conditions that they can't see others ideas until after they've done their own work by having students go to dropbox first. Set restiction to discussion board. Then students see other discussions but only after they've forumulated thier own opinions/work. DB is for further work.

Can pin your postings--Instructors can ensure their message is at the top of the board by hitting "pin message" box under textbox withing composing message.

Discussion Rubric Example (check online resources for this rubric).

Replying guideline (have to reply to the person above you and below you).

Two deadline method is used by many (separate dates for posts and replies).

Set default as "Reading style" (vs grid style) open and easy to read. Each student can switch it (then see topics vs lost themes thru threads)

Requirement to edit all subject lines or no credit--interesting. More thought about their writing.

Student-led discussions (change students role).

Elements of Accessible eLearning--In Action

Sandra Earl

How does a screen reader assist an individual who is blind
Reads the contents of teh page aloud
Identifies different HTML page componets suc as headings, links and images
Idenitifes input fields and hlps users switch from keyboard commands to inputting texts.

NVDA www.nvda-project.org

FUSION 11 Beyond the Lecture Room: Leveraging Presentation Capture and Rich Media Webcasting

D2L Capture

Key Platform of D2L recently acquired. Innovative line of lecture capture and webcasting solutions for broadcasting

Compete solution to presentation capture and rich media webcasting
Rich media= speaker video and presentaiton slides/desktop
webcasting = 1 to many streaming to multiple views online. Scalable and robust.
Delivered live, on-demand, or both.

Doesn't use as much broadband width.

Recording locally. Seemless recording (vs webconferencing is dependent on the internet)

Need both components:
1. Capture Stations
A. Station 300 (hardware and software)
B. Capture Sotware (software only)
2. Capture Portal
A. Hosting (on cloud)
B. Server Software (on-premise)

FUSION 11 Key Note Jonah Lehrer with Thinking About Thinking: The New Science of Learning

Running uphill from fire (moving faster than you).

Sometimes we're just thinking about problems in the wrong way.

Moments of Insight
1. Comes out of Nowhere
2. We know it is just right.

C.R.A.P.

Pine, crab, sauce (apple)

A. 30 mileseconds (surge of activity in the brain, in right hemisphere)
B. They can look at scans and predict that an epiphany would come. Alpha waves when you're relaxed.

Turn the spotlight of attention inwards
So focused on trying to focus. So when the noise of the world drowns out, when you stop making progress, then stop searching for it.

2. Tip IMPORTANCE OF GRIT
Kids lowest grit, most likely to drop out.
Quarterbacks have high grit. The dumber you are, the better you are going to perform as a quarterback (on wunderlicks test)

RELY ON THESE INTUTIONS THAT YOU'VE DEVELOPED

Grit seems to mediate and allows you to manuever the challenges (stick with it even when sore and bruised).

Trained instincts and intuitions.

#3 The importance of making mistakes.

How does intuition get so smart?
Dopamine (pleasure drug, recognizes patterns too)

Dopamine gets bored quickly.


Test: two groups ("Good job, you are so smart" vs "Good job you must have tried so hard") The kids who were praised for trying harder scored 30% higher.)

Be constantly confronted/challenged.

#4 Importance of not eating the marshmallow.
Have one marshmallow right now you can eat, or wait 15 minute and you can have two.
Average waiting time 2 minutes.
"High Delayer" Properly allocate their attention. Short term suferring for a long term reward.

Attack grit by 1)giving kids the right, reasonable and effective goals and 2) let the kids have the experiences.

Extra Credit Spelling Example

It took me some time to relize that what works one semester might not work the the next. Each class is unique and has it’s own dynamic. Being adaptible is important. I’m allways trying to find new tools to keep it engaging. For this reason, I know I run my class diferently now then when I first started teaching. We all have tips and tricks we use in our classrooms—why not share them with each other. We can help each otter be more sucessful.

http://tinyurl.com/5ry4dt

Barry Dahl-Work in the Cloud

ITC eLearning 2011 "Operate in the Cloud--A Dozen Great Tools with a Single Login"

HANDOUT will be barrydahl.com
Resources tab

Zoho

Note to Kari: Mark Workman-presentation (might want to get handouts)

Can do so much more than google docs

Best online word processor, spreadsheet, Web form creator and databse, poll creator, wiki, live Webinar space, calendar, mobile devices and more



Zoho.com (one account)

Collaboration apps, business apps, productivity Apps,

Zoho documents

Can do private, group, or public share (documents do not have to be on web)
If you want it on the web--"Webify it!"

No doc or docx

http://m.zoho.com/ access your docs on your mobile devices

Even offline when you have no connection MS Office plug-in

Zohowriter (published document)
Zoho Sheet (embedded spreadsheet
Zoho Creator (published webform)
Notebook (published

Desire2Blog (Barry's blog) he uses alot of zoho features in his blog

Tweet This! Social Networking in Higher Education (look for this presentation or get from Audrey)

Excellence in Education (Barry's new business)

Mail tool

Can log in with facebook account, twitter account, google, or follow their news

Dashboard tool

Can go from ap to ap -- one click access to many things

Zoho calendar can sync with others (like google calendar)
can color code separate calendars or see them separately

Zohodocs
One click access to all type of document

Zohotasks
To do list (like remember the milk)

PLE (personal learning environment on Barry's blog) Many downloads are also available on his blog

Zohowriter
similar to google docs, or word, but "a whole lot better"
Can share

If you save documents live on the web then you save steps when you change something because you're not changing it and re-uploading, etc.

Spreadsheet in excel is still very good

Zohospread
macros available
pivot table

Zoho Show (a bit "wanky")

Slideshare is his recommendation

Project Management (can do one at a time, more than that and you pay)

Zoho Creator
drag and drop
Form generator

Zoho Notebook
Can add audio and video (can upload or record right in program)
Great for homepage "presence"
Maximum is probably 5 minutes

JING or Camptasia (screen capture)

Mingleverse (can join a private room by sending out the link on twitter)

What's NEXT? Creating a next gen classroom

Audrey Williams, Pellissippi State
Howard Beattie, Holland College

Looking at the classroom--hard classroom and soft classroom
Actual classroom hasn't changed too much over last 100- 200 years
What should come next?

Teacher and students wrote on slates (early 1800's we put them on the wall) Now we have the whiteboard (teacher has all the knowledge)

What about student created content. White board paint.

Put in compature chairs. Write-angle desk (can move around, are designed for computers and cords) Found with new room students still sit in "their" same spot

Look at lighting, speakers

Uniboard
Doceri (?) will work with ipad

Buy livescribe pens for all students (adminstrators, faculty, some support--give them to admin first for buy-in, because they see the benefits)

http://blogs.pstcc.edu/teachtech/

Customized task bars which can be downloaded by students (even at home) with personalized bookmarks for resources
Listed under major categories like "create"and share "collaborate" "resources"

Many instructors are still teaching in traditional mode.

Incorporating Active Learning Into an Onlne Environment using Free Internet Tools

Yvette Espinosa, Biology Instructor, South Mountain Community College

Prezi - good for student presentation. Housed online so anyone can have access (as long as you have it set that way)

Teacher Centered-
Lecture format
Competitive
Curriculum based
Low-engagement
low level of student choice
student is passive
power is with teacher

Learner Centered
appeal to many learning syltes
Cooperative
Active Learning
Engaged
more choice
power with student
Significant Learning Experiences

Instructional Methods

Places to start
You want interaction with the teacher, the material and their peers

Five active learning techniques:
1. Socratic Questioning
Audacity
Add question in presentation--telling students where to go to answer
easy to edit
Google chat
Can fascilitate chat with only a google log in
(set up groups)

2. Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT)
clickr poll
survey
muddiest point
FlickrPoet
uses tags to show story
have them pull up 3 specific words and have students define why that photo fits those words
low effort way to assess where they are
Vuvox
can incorporate audio or visual

3. Office Hours
skype (online web conferencing--name is a becomming more common)
VRoom free web conferencing (doesn't hold a lot of people) doesn't record

4. Round Robin
Turn taking discussion
Facebook Group
Twitter

5. Review Sessions
Gives students feedback
Helps them prepare
Survey Monkey
Teacher or Students set up survey
Jing
screen capture program
Create tutorials with audio

Other tools:
freetoolsstudent2material.weebly

ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THE MATERIAL
Poll EveryWhere Can set up a question and students answer with cellphones instant results
Quia Can have students set up assessments (ie right up test questions)
4Teachers (surveys or assessments, variety of tools)
Poll Daddy
Cover It Live (instant feedback)

Mapping tools
ReadThink Write Suite of Tools
WordFramAlpha (good one for math, history, culture) Builds concept maps for students
Widgit
Symbols help to communicate ideas

Virtual Worlds and Avatars
Second Life
Gnomz
Voki
Role Playing and animation

Storytelling
1. Blogging tools
Weebly
Blogs for Teaachers
2. Storytelling Tools
CamStudio (Streaming Video)
Animoto

Case Studies
YouTube
Thinkfinity
MERLOT


OTHER
Glogster (collages) Scrapbooking
Think, Pair, Share
Google Sidewiki (housing) or house at google doc (they can edit each other's document)
Debates
Prezi presentation program
Roundtable
4Square (Downloadable app) to see where each other is at and/or set up a meeting
Slideshare
Cooperative Learning
Group Projects
iSpring (nice for setting up powerpoints and converting them to flash) does well with audio and animation
Digital Dropbox (can pass things back and forth, but housed online) good for large files with don't go through email
Zotero collect citations and research (good for group projects)

Faculty Survival Tools

Elizabeth McMahon, Northland CTC

Tools that save time
always available
easy to use
sync automatically across multiple computers and/or smart phone
Come highly recommended
Free (or mostly free)

Time management tools
Google calendar (can share things too) www.google.com/calendar
Can send reminders
Can color code course schedules and share with students

Doodle
meetings and scheduling resource
Can tie to google calendar

Timetrade (not free)
does connect to google calendar
online office hours and sets up apt to speak with the instructor (with apt availability)
Able to leave details provide up front information
gives them a "receipt"
She uses for faculty and student apts
$30 a year

Foxtab
with firefox browser (add on browser)
makes your browser save all of the sites you want it to (saves as visual pages--like mac disply)
lets up tab fast through what you have open

Other Time Savers
Intelligent Agents (in D2L) (under tool options)
Automatic Email personalized to the student
Can set up different criteria (I see you did well on your quiz--kudos and keep up the good work. or I see you didn't do as well on your quiz as I was hoping, don't forget there are practice quizzes available.)

Google Voice
Google option to leave message to a different number
Can call from cell phone without it registering as your personal number
Free

Task Management Tools
Remember the Milk
To do list
reminder notices
aps
integrates with google calendar
set up in lists
add tasks from email
Blog every Tuesday with tips and tools of that program

Information Management Tools
Dropbox.com
backup of files
keeps files synced across computers
2G free (can buy more) If you refer others to site you get more space free
drag and drop feature to online files (then accessible on any online computer)
Can have public and private online storage

Springpad
Notes. Really, really smart notes
Can send reminders
Can be synced across multiple sites

Evernote
Similar to springpad
Save webpage, whole webpage
Capture and organize

Google docs
documents
presentations
spreadsheets
collaboration

Googleforms
create a form (ie Student information Form)
creates certificates
(has a behind the scenes spreadsheet so creator can see bigger picture in spreadsheet)
gives you an URL to access information

TOOLS CAN BE USED TOGETHER

Elizabeth.mcmahon@northlandcollege.edu

Featured Presentation: Alan Levine, "Looking Through the Lens"

Alan Levine, Chief Execute Officer of New Media Consortium

@cogdog and CogDog Blog


"Do you have a mobile phone? You're a photographer"

A professional gets paid for their photography

Alan's view is that a photographer takes photos and the photos show "I exist"

Instagram

sip44seconds@

photo manipulation to "frame" or "focus" attention use apeture

shutter speed to make photos unobtrusive

Look at the world differently--heightens attention

"With a little bit of thinking you can get so much more"

"change the angle you can get a whole new story"

Photos can make you want to know more--I want to know the story

Photos can capture "the truth"

"Photos can make you want to know more!" "I want to know the story" (behind that photo).

DIY- Do it Yourself Maybe in the future learning will be DIY (Works great if you know what you want to learn--Kari: like when I looked on youtube for making an omplette.)

PROJECT 365 photos on flickr

The Daily Shoot--challenges Total informal learning. Assignment comes on Twitter with hashtag for aggregator. Need to do it do it do it.

I like the metaphor of "tone". Sepia, color, etc. Kari's question: How do you color the perception of what you present to others?

Learning with others matters
Learning by doing matters

Pummel vision.com and publishes it right to youtube (with music)

cogdogblog.com/stuff/itc11

Cole Camplese Keynote Address

Cole Camplese, Senior Director Teaching and Learning with Technology Pennsylvania State University

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

Young kids use technology differently than what we knew “technology” as growing up

Different expectations about technology

High School student “going to school is like getting on a plane…you sit down, strap in, and turn off all your stuff. You can’t turn them back on until you have landed at the other side”.

Technology is only technology to those born before technology – Alan Key

Expectation--I want to be able to do what I can out there.

Want real connectivity

1975

TV Stations

News happened at 6:00 and 10:00 it didn’t happen in between

Advertising

Radio Stations

Now

Media Universe—Mobile World we are living in now

Web 1.0 (technology)

Web 2.0 Architecture of participation easy available collaborative people—it’s about people connecting to other people (It’s not the technology)

· How they access information 40% of our students watch tv on their computer

· How they connect with media

· How they control media

· How they create media 33% create and share media

Teaching and Learning 2.0

Students as amplifiers

Identity is so different now--metaidentities

Digital Marker

Multi-channel discourse

Digital Text—Authenticate

Females write 3 times as much as males

Females tend to continue to write after the semester

“Remix as dialogue” just one layer of storytelling

Youtube dot com theme song by Irving Fields

New pedagogies embedded in these technologies/social networks

They also need to be supported

ITC 11 Meet and Greet

Executive meeting with committee members and nonmembers. There's a nice report from Distance Education Survey Results "Trends in eLearning: Tracking the impact of eLearning at Community Colleges".

Interesting results:
Number 1 Challenge reported as "Greatest Challenges for Administrators of Distance Education Programs": "Support staff needed for traning and technical assistance".
Number 2 Challenge "Adequate student services for distance education students"

Blackboard leads percentage of LMS usage at just under 40% followed very closely by WebCT at about 36%. Moodle is at about 10%, then Angel just short of 10% and Desire2Learn just under 5%.

Most difficult classes. "Respondents identified classes they have found to be difficult to offer onoline for various reasons, such as faculty resistance and/or pedagogical challenges...The most difficult classes listed include:"

* Lab-based science
* Speech
* Clinical requirements
* Fine arts
* Nursing
* Math
* Industrial technology
* Foreign language
* Computer hardware

"Typical enrollment cap by class type also remained the same".
27 students for an introductory math class
25 students for an introductory English composition class
30 students for an introductory politcal science class

From report: 60% of the respondents indicated faculty participation in training programs for distance education was mandatory..."
* 70% require more than 8 hours of training

From report: Full-time faculty teach 64% of distance education classes.

From report: Only 28% of the respondents limit the number of online class sections a full-time faculty member can teach each term.

"Completion Rates. Since the inception of online instruction, administrators have dealt with the issue of lower student retention of completion rates than traditional face-to-face instruction...in 2009 administrators reported that the average retention or completion rate for online classes was 72%, compared to 76% percent for traditional face-to-face courses."

From report: 52% of online students are "traditional" (18-25) while 47% are non-traditional (26+)

BARRY DAHL'S 6 ITEMS THAT ARE COMING OUR WAY:
Game-based learning
Mobile Devices for Learning
Gesture-based computing
e-textbooks
Augmented Reality
Learning Analytics

Don't Get Run OVer By
* Off-loading IT services
* Netflix bandwidth issues
* Open Education Resources
* Student communications not via email (From another report 60% of students do not use email)

"The LMS we're looking for may not be an LMS"