6. Acquiring 21st century skills such as higher level
thinking, stronger communication abilities, and
collaborative learning will encourage student
engagement and increase academic achievement
(Department of Education, 2002)
8. Are You Paying Attention?
How do your students learn?
How do you assess their learning?
What is the difference between a digital
native and a digital immigrant?
9. Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
One year or less
Social Networking
User-Created Content
Two-Three Years
Mobile Phones
Virtual Worlds
Four-Five Years
New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
10. Choose the Right Tool
Communication
Content
Collaboration
Organization/Mgt
Assessment
11. Synchronous Communication
Virtual Conferencing
Elluminate
Chats
Skype
Asynchronous Communication
E-mail
Blackboard Discussion Boards
Blogs
Social Networks
13. Chats
Usually organized around a particular topic
Interaction through typed messages
Works well for brainstorming or if format is well
structured ahead of time.
Live online Author Discussions: extend students’
understanding of a particular author’s works and the
writing process:
Book Raps
Read Around Australia
14. FREE VoIP technology
make audio and video phone calls from
your computer
Promoting Synchronous Interaction
in an eLearning Environment
15. Discussion Board Forums
Time and place independent
Time between messages allows for reflection
Speakers of other languages have added time
to read and compose answers
Responses can be seen by all—making
learning more visible
Messages archived--providing a database of
interactions
21. Social Networking Software
Social Networks
Keep contacts online through web interfaces
MySpace, FaceBook most common
Social Calendaring
Share agendas for events arrangements and
meetings planning
Groupwise, Google Calendar
22. Social Networks: Connect Users into
Communities of Trust (or interests)
What can you do with Pronetos?
Create your home page
Find scholars in your field
Share a paper with colleagues
Post course materials to your site
Network and collaborate with colleagues
Find research in your field
Post an announcement to your colleagues
See the message board in your discipline
28. You-Tube
Ignite your students imaginations
Use video clips to introduce/demonstrate concepts
Have students incorporate videos in their projects
Have students evaluate video content—information literacy
Have students create videos & post them to YouTube
29. Online community for sharing instructional
videos
Provides anytime, anywhere professional
development with teachers teaching teachers
Site where teachers can post videos designed
for students to view in order to learn a concept
or skill
http://www.teachertube.com
32. Podcasting
Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast
Differs from streaming audio
Automatically delivered to player –don’t
have to click on a link to download
Listen when you want – not when a
program is scheduled
35. Making Them
Dead simple More involved
Windows Audacity Audacity
Sound Recorder
+ +
or
Freecorder Podomatic Blog
or +
Digital voice Feedburner
recorder
+
Podomatic
36. Inquiry-oriented lesson format in which
most or all the information that learners
work with comes from the web.
WebQuest.org
History of Computers WebQuest
Will Technology Elevate Higher Education?
40. Wikis:
The ultimate collaboration tool
Special web site
allows visitors to add, remove, edit &
change content
Not need access to or knowledge of
web publishing software
Collaboration
Group members work on common
document in common location
41. Teaching & Learning
Resources Wiki
Toolkit of online resources
Course design
Course management systems
Faculty Development Resources
Online Training
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Web 2.0
Learning Theories
Learning Styles
42. Wikis in Education
Amistad wiki
Creative Web Tools For and By Kids
Welker's Wikinomics Page
Eckerd College
Teaching & Learning Resources wiki
43. Horizon Project
http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between classrooms in
diverse geographical locations
USA (6 classes—4 schools)
Japan (1 class)
Qatar (2 classes—2 schools)
Austria (1 class)
Spain (1 class)
Australia (2 classes—2 schools)
44. WikiBooks
Started July 10, 2003—mission to create a free collection of
open-content textbooks that anyone can edit
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Current_Issu
es_of_Early_Childhood_Education/WikiText_Development_
Process
Old Dominion—WikiText project
Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for
the course
48. World's largest community for sharing
presentations on the web
Can embed YouTube videos
Can narrate presentations online
Linked to LinkedIn social network
Linked to Blogger
49. Flickr
Teaching with Flickr
and cell phones
An art history class
combined mobile devices
with a Web 2.0 service to
assess student learning.
Beth Harris took a class to
the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, where students took
photos of art, uploaded
them to Flickr, then used
that site's tools to
comment on their
observations.
50. Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
storing, describing, and sharing bookmarks via the
web
Accessible to other users
Importance of tagging (keywords)
Examples
Del.icio.us
FURL
citeulike