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.
Monday, July 11, 2011
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.
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).
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
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)
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.
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.
Monday, May 9, 2011
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.
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