Inspiring Lifelong Learners with Technology and Storytelling

Levar Burton

PASSION DRIVES LEARNING

Storytelling: Every culture around the world has storytelling so you are being universal by using that opportunity to engage.

Reader for life.

In the 80's it was television to reach children--today the "engagement factor" is technology

Impossible to reach highest potential without relationship to the written word.

Richness comes from interaction with the word and storytelling.

Imagination Propells humanity foward

Power of storytelling to the throughline of humanity

Recognizing the importannnnce the role of literature has

Everychild Everywhere (universal access)

Video Field Trips

hundreds of books, hundreds of  video field trips already available on Reading Rainbow app and more being created every week

Create toogether

Know that what you do matters!

"Teachers are the bellows that fans the sparks  of imagination"

None of us do this think that we call life by ourselr.  WE al need someone to ignite that spark.  Never forgot how important your job is. You are in the inspriatation busings.

Highest level of expression is hard without the written word

Duality in all of us: sublime and the destructive

unashamedly unabashedly unafraid to be yourself and share your gift

Be fearless in sharing your gift

Trivia:  Star Trek was first show to have an interracial kiss

Close your eyes and think of a teacher that has had an impact on your life

Invoking Intelligent Agents

Dan Semi


Agent- acting on behalf of another

Help save time (clone yourself, can set up before action needed, set specific criteria, and get feedback)

Can be set up under edit tool and communication tool area (Can set up tool options by category name or alphabet to find quicker)

Can look for a behavior (ie look for students that get below a certain threshhold) can also cc on task

Notifications tool (to identify what's happening when behavior is triggered)

Agent- acting on behalf of another

can look for flags (proactive)
manage completion
Email positive strokes and reinforce
integrate individualization
reminder of deadlines/special announcements

on the future version there will be a has "not" done something search or behavior

allow them to receive badges or certificates

Can also push out manually

Gives a sumamry report

PIE (Product Idea Exchange) to share ideas and wish lists

Leveraging ipad

Use with Binder

document "include annotations"

Using binder you can have content selected on your ipad and don't need to display username publicly to class (F2F)

Assignment Grader "game changer for me" Grade offline, inline comments, add annotations, video & feedback.

Presenter required pdf to allow for annotation to student work

Another instructor had a small glitch because didnt' sync

Use ungraded toggle because it's easy to get lost in chaos without that

"Speed Grader" for the grade all -- like that analogy

TurnItIn has "grademark" app (can highlight--can't strike out)

Google Drve
Ask the students to rewrite the instructions to a task (can do collaboratively if using google docs)

BaiBoard import images, text, multiple pages collaborative whiteboard
Virtual writing/drawing
Text
images, maps
pdfs
shapes
Presentation mode to it too
web viewing
able to be export (in still image)

Creation Apps:

Explain Everything
easily create video, pdf, insert writing drawing type images, URLs, browser windows audio recording
Static slides and then go back to begining and hit record button and hit forward button to make it video (slideshow)

Paper (WOW COOL) look for video on Vimeo
unlimited pages
collection of notes
journal
can do art, skethcing, drawing, paint
Export out to pdf

MyScript Memo
Can translate handwriting into text
Support multiple languages (English to Spanish)

Notability
take regular notes amd can record audio (lecture)
can insert from web or add notes
auto back up
can zoom
can have multiple pages

Animate your Content

Ron Paige Clevleand State CC

Engage Students with the content-they're already engaged with the technology

Created presentation using Fake Movie Poster and Make Beliefs Comix

Animation characters already available you can use for free as long as not using for commercial purposes (take character in pdf and save as jpg)

Get technology in the students' hands

Students are students no matter their age

More students statistically will play an instrucor video welcome than read the announcements

Humor in the beginning (modeling ideas) (intro with character pleading to read announcements)

Welcome to Blended Online Learning video YouTube (PowToon) mission about computer needs

PowToons has educaional templates (free music mission impossible theme) just add in content on a timeline

Very easy to use and have students use--highly recommended in presenter's opinion in their experience with student feedback

Social Learning Theory Frank and Ernest Comic to visualize concept (Self-Effecacy example I think therefore I am...Ernie, Your're Disappearing)

resource: Go Comics, Go Animate a good tool too

Movie Zoo (more complicated but more to manipulate)

Animoto

Educational/Classroom Usage Fair Use

Reduce the overload--Cogniteve Load Theory use stories.  Story is easy to work with and connect with (visual or word oriented) the form

Three types of simple animation
1) Performance Aids (visual cues, charts, tables, organizers)
2) Still Images (diagrams, cartoons, learning agents)
3) Animated sequences (multi-frame story, audio-visual story)

Tools
Screen Capture (bringing it into paint)
Jing

Learning Character used consistantly in class - visual cue with a personal observation (ie Merlin character)

Multi-frame Stories

Teacher Presence cont.

Intelligent Agents Cont.

under edit course, communication

curly brackets - to insert name (to personalize communication)

Can conditionally release news items (which can also be personalized)

Go for the subjective to get to the objective

Side note: Alan Turing Book

Now you See Me: Teacher Presence in Classroom

Online learning can get a little lonely

Community of Inquiry (Inquiry Based Learning)

3 Elements
Social Presence
Cognitive Presence
Teaching Presence

Cognitive
Content curation
Content authoring
Focusing the conversation

Social
Modeling behavior
Inclusion (Connecting to personal experience too)
Encouraging discourse

Teacher Presence
No matter your style you still have influence

Tools of the trade

Video Note
Video is an intimate medium
Candor goes a long way
Embrace the challenge
No cost right now, just video upload restrictions, and it must be turned on by admin
Video note shows up as option in "insert stuff"
*Side note that D2L is working on a closed caption option for Video Note to get fully accessible player in next version

Discussions
set the tone
encourage the insertion of stuff (encourage students to use the "insert stuff"-on far left in edit mode)
must post first (checkbox)
wrapping it up (action researach-Nancy Gana??)

Can now do mobile video through mobile app to eportfolio

Assessment Feedback
Pre-pacckage quiz question responses (or even specific answer options) or boilerplate responses can go a long way
Compliment Sandwhich (lead with a compliment, criticism, compliment)
Dowload once, track all changes (can dowload all dropbox assignments in a zip so you don't have to do individually--big time saver, and then can reupload and it will re-align!)
Assignment Grader (app so you can grade off line, score, use rubrics, audio feedback, video feedback, and then syncs) (For instructor to be able to write ontop students would have to submit as pdf)
Anything that stops the discourse is stopping the learning

Intelligent Agents
Replacement Strings
Crazy cat videos
Set it and forget it

So you can preset an email (ie score less than a 70 recieve an email saying here's some additional resournces)

Optimazation, Adaptive Design and Other Web Toolbox tricks

Mike Butcher - D2L

Goal is to speed up internet delivery because time DOES matter (

2004 users are willing to wait 8-10 secs
2006 4 seconds
2009 even less
2012 a quarter of a second was the competitive advantage (will push clients from one to another because of "slowness")

US 77.2 Broadband Adoption
Subscription per 100  (96 in US is broadband) Canada less

Amazon 100ms in page load time resulted in 1% decrease in sales (1% of net sales 2007=$148 Million

REduce Network delays

Spotlights - lunch Tuesday

Portland Community College - Web Accssiblity Resources  http://www.pcc.edu/resources/instructional-support/access/


Ask Barry about blogger

Stephanie Taitano-West Chester University teacher and student video

Distance Education Program Guide and Handbook one of the most extensive processes and guidebooks--Tennessee State

Polk State College-Student Support Resources (tutorial and quiz for using system)

Guelph has integrated scantron and the D2L gradebook.  Contact Jason about that!

Our Presentation: Digistory Slam or Digital Storytelling in eLearning

https://sites.google.com/site/elearningdigistoryslam/

Group Collaboration 101

wiggio is a simple tooklit that makes it easy for students to work together in groups

W.I.G stands for Working in Groups

D2L acquired Wiggio a year and a half ago

Can be turned on and then works through BrightSpace
But when you do it will show up as option for Nav Bar (see account rep--They will color match to your campus)

Wiggio is for students to contact their own groups (not set up by instructors)

Can be set up for short term or longer term groups (clubs, class, extra curricular)

What do groups do in Wiggio
File Sharing (docs and photos)
Poll group (get group consensus)
Share calendar
Message Group (text, video, email messages)
Real time communication (screen sharing audio and video, conference call with free dial-in)

Completely free version

Or one that integrates with LE so single sign-in, makes group creation easier, can set setting preferences (ie push notifications)

Can add a meeting or event to calendar and push notifications or can export to other calendars like google calendar (or import other calendars)

Instructor can create groups - if student creates group, the instructor has to be an invited member to see what students set up

Can also share by group link

Currently they are working integrating D2L "groups" with Wiggio Groups

In settings admin of the group (different than admin for the site which is campus IT) can set so email and phone numbers are private

Groups can do sub-groups (ie "execute team", "freshman", particular teams)

Can add files directly to group discussion within Wiggio (no limit to how much you can store, but there is a single video upload limit)

Conference call (up to 15 people with a dial in) -virtual meeting (up to 10 people with screen sharing capabilities)

Will store docs in folder (like a google docs, can get link to file for sharing outside of group, edit tool within the system-right now can't see who made whatchanges it will just say name and latest version on file name, not designed for syncronous editing)

Chats are archived

They are looking at the possibility of archiving virtual meetings in future versions, currently not now

Future version with also soon have ability to have Wiggio file be sent to a D2L dropbox (currently not available now)

Right now can not accept or decline times (but might be able to in future) could do as email with a checkoff or do a poll
Can create a takslist with due dates and "task" assignment to specific group members (can send out taks list by email)

Polling
Yes/No option
Short answer
MC
push notification, has aggregate data and list of who has taken/not taken poll

Can do video message up to a minute

Admin capabilities (usually more for IT) for data and stas and management

Personalizing Online Courses with Audio and Video Tools

Online classes can be personalized with audio and video - and not just by the instructor! This presentation will highlight how one online instructor has used audio and video to enhance her class and how she encourages students to do the same by creating opportunities for online audio and video assignments.

Full session here.

Terri Brown Eric Floyd and Jan Grimes Georgia Southern University

Kaltura 2.0
WEB CAM recordings
video audio uploads

Kaltura 3.0
screen cpature
my media
insert stuff widget

Magraw-Hill Connect


Instructor videos

Assessment option: Do "reflection journal" as a video (most still do text-based reflection but those that did do the video appreciated the option)  ie to the self-assessments: do you agree with your results why or why not?

Book: How to win friends and influence people

Kalutra upgrades
Improved screen capture
improved HTML5 player
integration with all lecture capture solutions through XML and APITs
Engagement and interactivity (quizzing)


LINKING to online video outside of LMS is better for avoiding copyright infringement so recommended to use external link (the owner online then is the responsible party)

Fair Use checklist (state of Georgia)

Teach Act - suggests if you have it behind a password protected site that it helps cover some public versus academic use contexts

Notes from other sessions coming in from twitter

Good idea: Make Accessibility and Student service links into widgets that go on students home pages

Could add simple widget to documents so text and videos are present for multi-media class content pages

Take a Picture It'll Last Longer: Mobile ePortfolio

App for your iphone or Android Phone

What mobile can do
View ePortfolio activity stream

View your ePortfolio items

Create Reflections

Capture artifacts such as:
Photos Video recordings
Audio recordings
Web links

Share, tag and add those artifacts to collections

URL: fusionresources.desire2learn.com


Presenter likes to have content tool/page be the homepage (edit course, homepage managment--choose content tool)

If student has access to ePortfolio from nav bar it keeps everything else accessible from within course

Great idea of a collection would be English Comp students who pull in 5 drafts/revisions/final draft paper

You can see activity feed, or what was recently shared,

can tag

Can be used in many many ways

The Sky is NOT the limit: Special Speaker, Chris Hadfield, Former Commander International Space Station

Wow. What a great speaker.  He was humorous and inspiring.  He had some great analogies about "perspective" and how not truly understanding how we understand something until after we step outside of our normal framework.

He also talked about the importance of visualizing our failures in order to be better problem-solvers and be better prepared for success.

Explaining a complex idea in a simple manner using technology:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM 

Tweets:

kfrisch @kfrisch · 1h

Hadfield: "Going through the universe with the world" leads to desire "Make more informed more beneficial, better decisions" #D2LFUSION #AH

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 1h

#D2LFUSION #AH Love Hadfield's comment about seeing the world and realizing we are all collectively "crew members" on this life mission

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 1h

#D2LFUSION #AH Success from visualizing failure--there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 1h

Hadfield: "If you really want to communicate with people you have to use art. That is how people understand things" #D2LFusion #AH

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 1h

Here is the Hadfield's Music Monday video #D2LFusion #AH

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 2h

Teaching: Taking complex concept and getting idea across in simple and meaningful way #D2LFUSION #AH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM …

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kfrisch @kfrisch · 2h

We think we know it but are really limited until we step outside our own perspective to view it from an outside perspective #D2LFUSION #AH

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