Created as part of the four-day PLUTO Institute: Blended Learning 2014.

1. “Choosing Media and
Online Tools”
Theme: Course Technology

2. Community, Collaboration,
Creation
3 C’s of Today’s Students
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3. Community, Collaboration, Creation

4. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Community
• Not restricted to current connections
• Past, current, and future potentials
• Not confined to a zip code
• Classmates, family, employer, interests, views
• Global perspective
• Important aspect of PLU

5. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• PLUTO Community as Example
• Shared experience
• People around you and facilitators
• Potential for lifelong connections (sounds cheesy)
• How will continue this connection?
• Drop by someone’s office?
• Email them afterwards?
• Connect via LinkedIn?
• Connect via Facebook?
• Follow them on Twitter?
• Point
• No connection needs to fade away
• Everyone you’ve ever known is one
click away

6. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Collaboration
• Version control is no longer an everyday occurrence
• Email attachments were the previous norm
• Transition to living documents
• Office 365/Online
• Google Apps
• Editing across devices
• Minimal hardware and
software requirements
• Free tools

7. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Collaboration
• Not restricted by location
• In person
• Online
• Skype
• Google Hangouts
• When are you available?

8. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Creation
• Their creation devices
• Webcams, video cameras, still cameras

9. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Creation
• Their creation apps
• Instagram, Twitter, iMovie, YouTube, Keynote, Pages, Wordpress,

10. Community, Collaboration, Creation
Key Question:
How can we incorporate these skills into the classroom?
• Community
• Build a community within your course
• Encourage relationship-building activities into instruction
• Collaboration
• Emphasis on group work
• Real world challenges
• Creation
• Require original work, artifact creation
• Encourage portfolios of work

11. Approaches to Technology
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12. Approaches to Technology Integration
Choose the Technology Identify Desired Outcome
• Explore endless tools
• Focus on technology,
not pedagogy
• “A solution in search
of a problem”
Backward Design
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Content creation
• Presentation
• Student practice
• Pedagogy constant
• Future-proof with
technology changes

13. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

14. In the best blends, the technology:
• gets out of the way of learning
• enables
• supports
Select the Blend

15. Communication Tools
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16. Communication Tools: Skype

17. Communication Tools: Google Hangouts

18. Communication Tools: Apple FaceTime

19. Collaboration Tools
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20. Google Docs/Drive
• File sharing
• Collaborative editing
• Commenting

21. Google Hangouts
• Collaborative document creation
• Screen sharing

22. Blogs
• Journaling
• Digital portfolio

23. Wikis
• Collaborative page generation

24. Desired Outcomes

25. Content Creation Tools
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26. Content Creation Tools: Mobile Device

27. Content Creation Tools: Video Editing

28. Content Creation Tools: Photos Sharing

29. Content Creation Tools: Photos Posters

30. Content Creation Tools: Voice Recording

31. Practice Tools
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32. Student Practice Tools
• Dynamic Content and Simulations
• Practice Problems & Worked Examples
• Practice Quizzes
• Drill and Practice Tools

33. Dynamic Content & Simulations
• Khan Academy
• https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

34. Practice Problems & Worked Examples
• Six sigma data visualization training

35. Practice Quizzes
• Textbook & Online Resources
• http://www.wiley.
com/legacy/college/bio/tortora366927/resources/student/anatomydril
l/ch1.html
• http://ect.downstate.
edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u6/quiztop6.htm
•

36. Drill and Practice
• iMuscle App

37. Presentation Tools
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38. Presentation Tools: Google Presentations

39. Presentation Tools: Prezi

40. Presentation Tools: Haiku Deck

41. Activity:
Reimagining an Assignment
10 Minutes
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42. Activity: Reimagining an Assignment
• Task
• Design the perfect blended assignment incorporating
resources, multimedia, and tools.
• Focus on community, collaboration, creation
• Teams
• Sorted by table
• Tools
• Sticky posters
• Post-its
• Sharpies
• Timing
• Creating = 7 Min
• Reporting = 3 Min

43. Next Steps

44. Next Steps
• Download a free trial
• Check out a screencasting kit from iTech
• Schedule a consultation