Woohoo, finally got a spot next to an outlet so I can blog again about the sessions I'm attending.
Current session is on doing a group project using web tools. Some possible tools:
Google Apps
Office Mix
Slideshare
Voice Thread
Knovia
Present.me
Screencast-o-matic (can be hosted on YouTube)
Mobile Apps
Explain everything (not free) Apple and Android $4.99 ?
Voice Thread
Check out Crosswords for the spot about technology in education.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Gamifying your syllabus
Leslie Von Wolvelear-Oakton Community College
Gamification
Move through levels
Earn achievements (positive reinforcement)
Play to avoid losing awards (negative reinforcement)
Collaborative: work with others to achieve goals
Synthesis: bring multiple skills together to achieve awards
Make more fun, engaging or meaningful for the participants
Syllabus Scavenger Hunt
Clear and concise instructions
Use images for the visual learner
Link to D2L quizzes
Points for completing assignments
Easter Eggs
Students can earn extra credit points by finding the hidden Easter Eggs (a common gaming technique) Extra credit point to find hidden links--but don't have the links colored and underlined.
Gamification
Move through levels
Earn achievements (positive reinforcement)
Play to avoid losing awards (negative reinforcement)
Collaborative: work with others to achieve goals
Synthesis: bring multiple skills together to achieve awards
Make more fun, engaging or meaningful for the participants
Syllabus Scavenger Hunt
Clear and concise instructions
Use images for the visual learner
Link to D2L quizzes
Points for completing assignments
Easter Eggs
Students can earn extra credit points by finding the hidden Easter Eggs (a common gaming technique) Extra credit point to find hidden links--but don't have the links colored and underlined.
Todd Conaway 9x9x25 Challenge
Challenge to write about teaching and learning on blog: Nine pieces for nine weeks (1 a week) at 25 sentences a piece.
Used Word Press and no monitoring. Trust your staff.
Other campuses used LMS
Other campuses did a 6x6 or 4x6
Other campuses challenged faculty, staff and admin
Faculty testimonial: "Some of the best professional development experience"
Surprising result: How much community seemed to have been built
Great mentoring experience, reflect, professional devt.
Maricopa had "write 6x6" on teaching & learning, and student success
They had a suggested writing suggestions:
http://write6x6.com/writing-ideas/
Another option idea: Have faculty do a VLOG about their best teaching and learning practice, success, etc.
Used Word Press and no monitoring. Trust your staff.
Other campuses used LMS
Other campuses did a 6x6 or 4x6
Other campuses challenged faculty, staff and admin
Faculty testimonial: "Some of the best professional development experience"
Surprising result: How much community seemed to have been built
Great mentoring experience, reflect, professional devt.
Maricopa had "write 6x6" on teaching & learning, and student success
They had a suggested writing suggestions:
http://write6x6.com/writing-ideas/
Another option idea: Have faculty do a VLOG about their best teaching and learning practice, success, etc.
Engineering Online Courses with Backwards Course Design
Rebecca M. Reese, LCCC Laramie Community
Backwards design is more student centered
1. develop outcomes/competencies
2. learning objectives
3. assessments
4. learning resources and activities
Premise is that the planning begins with the desired results first then working backwards to develop the instruction
Not sure I agree with presenter that traditional classrooms is "instructor-centered"
"Do you have to cover everything? No". ???
Pacing is important, have fun with what you know best, "don't be so rigid",
presenter twice now has scoffed at instructors with set # of units. (If you don't know what's in the unit how can the number truly have meaning" it's the content not the number of units.
Starting to have some faculty bashing happening "let the learning just happen" ??
hutegogy--deliberate design to have student-engagement
Ralph Tyler-statements of objective
Makes title interesting
Request from her a great example of netiquette
every objective has to go into some module, but obviously not every module
Backwards design is more student centered
1. develop outcomes/competencies
2. learning objectives
3. assessments
4. learning resources and activities
Premise is that the planning begins with the desired results first then working backwards to develop the instruction
Not sure I agree with presenter that traditional classrooms is "instructor-centered"
"Do you have to cover everything? No". ???
Pacing is important, have fun with what you know best, "don't be so rigid",
presenter twice now has scoffed at instructors with set # of units. (If you don't know what's in the unit how can the number truly have meaning" it's the content not the number of units.
Starting to have some faculty bashing happening "let the learning just happen" ??
hutegogy--deliberate design to have student-engagement
Ralph Tyler-statements of objective
Makes title interesting
Request from her a great example of netiquette
every objective has to go into some module, but obviously not every module
Work Smarter not Harder
COOL TOOLS (most will have basic functions for free)
Screenleap - Share your screen instantly to any device with a browser
Evernote - notes, can snap photos which are readable (recognizes words, times, etc.) can integrate with calendars, chat feature, chrome extension,
Google docs
Note Anywhere (Chrome extension) - allows you to add a post-it note and connect it to a particular spot on a website (you can access it as a note later), aggregate data
IFTTT - create "recipes" to automatically do things (mute your phone at bedtime, scan a picture to your computer, receive a map to where you just parked, notify me if X is within Y distance from Z, set ringtone volume to 100% on matching SMS, FITBIT, Can set up with places (like Target, School,) or time, temps, people, networks,
Google docs
Note Anywhere (Chrome extension) - allows you to add a post-it note and connect it to a particular spot on a website (you can access it as a note later), aggregate data
IFTTT - create "recipes" to automatically do things (mute your phone at bedtime, scan a picture to your computer, receive a map to where you just parked, notify me if X is within Y distance from Z, set ringtone volume to 100% on matching SMS, FITBIT, Can set up with places (like Target, School,) or time, temps, people, networks,
Tab Outliner - manage open tabs
Wolfram Alpha - used to be for physics or statistics, does animations set to be interactive
Crash Course (of course Khan Academy too)
OER Commons
eduCanon
EDpuzzle
Teachum
Can add interrupters where it stops and asks for information and you can attach it to video, educanon and teachum creates "courses" which then allows it to be graded
Office Mix-can add voice, video, polls, interactive apps, insights/analytics, to powerpoint (right now is only windows based)
Paper Rater, Citelighter, Scribble Maps
Web speech API- google chrome's speech translater microphone icon for speaking and translating it into text
Berman Accessibility Ribbon- accessibility tools added to ribbons on your word
Web Accessibility Checking Tool
Many more!!!
ITC - Monday Keynote Bonnie Stewart Education in Abundance: Network Learning and Literacies
ITC - Monday Keynote Bonnie Stewart Education in Abundance:
Network Learning and Literacies
Bonnie Stewart, Canada
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st Century?
Literacies=tools+concepts
We don't allow children to go out on playgrounds without supervision, yet we do that on social media today.
We are in a shift from a scarcity of knowledge to an over abundance of knowledge.
Concept of education, enlightenment, made possible from the mass development of literacy.
Need to manage and synthesize knowledge
The 7 elements of digital literacies
Digital Citizenship categories from Prezi "Examining Your Digital Mark" https://prezi.com/xcpx74yeugvm/examining-your-digital-mark/
9 elements: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
Abundance is the integration into everyday life.
Too many tools as sometimes the abundance can be overload. And the REASON NETWORKS matter. They give structure, organization, and Kari's term "filter" for abundance.
Networks are not just for consuming but connecting
Bonnie Stewart, Canada
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st Century?
Literacies=tools+concepts
We don't allow children to go out on playgrounds without supervision, yet we do that on social media today.
We are in a shift from a scarcity of knowledge to an over abundance of knowledge.
Concept of education, enlightenment, made possible from the mass development of literacy.
Need to manage and synthesize knowledge
The 7 elements of digital literacies
Digital Citizenship categories from Prezi "Examining Your Digital Mark" https://prezi.com/xcpx74yeugvm/examining-your-digital-mark/
9 elements: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
Abundance is the integration into everyday life.
Too many tools as sometimes the abundance can be overload. And the REASON NETWORKS matter. They give structure, organization, and Kari's term "filter" for abundance.
Networks are not just for consuming but connecting
Many-2-many communications
allow to create ourselves as network nodes
Learning as a network of
knowledge
Architecture of participation
Berg's 9 collaborative for digital
communication.
Share, communicate and
create (innovate)
Goals not achieved just by
putting it online
Train and “enculturate”
us
Digital Literacy
Identity
Contribution
Connection: Networked
Learning
Hypothesis for annotations
You need to nurture your network before you
need it. (Agreed!)
ROLE MODEL—They will learn
along with you
Orient
Declare
Network
Cluster focus
Contribution changes the way
we connect to the web
(visitors and residents)
“Residents” have a different
attitude, task, about being online
Contributing Literacies - as visitors or
residents to networked spaces; visitors do tasks- residents synthesize
Network with LMS makes it
more as a resident. Kari’s
framework: can also use it in a non-linear way (OITC) for resources, for
history, for cross-communication versus a stop and start point which usually
occurs with “class” structure—how LMS is most often used.
ADD VALUE, CONNECT, CHANGE
SESSION ONE: WORK SMARTER
NOT HARDER
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