Presentation for Educause Midwest Regional Conference 2010, Chicago, Illinois

1. Multimodal Fluency: From the Classroom to the Cloud Sean Cordes Assistant Professor Western Illinois University

3. The Classroom Only with a clear sense of the theoretical foundations that underpin assumptions about learning and cognition, can an efficient online learning environment be appropriately designed. Failure to address questions regarding learning theories, pedagogical approaches and explicit learning outcomes, results in the Everest Syndrome - using technology just because it is there (Nunes & McPherson, p. 8).

5. Learning and the Modern Learner

7. The Partnership for 21 st Century Skills http://www.21stcenturyskills.org Standards & Assessments Curriculum & Instruction Professional Development Learning Environments Life & Career Skills Learning & Innovation Skills Core Subjects & 21C Themes Information, Media, & Technology Skills

13. What Gains?

14. What gives?

19. Visual Literacy-The Frightening

20. Visual Literacy-To the Familiar

21. Visual Literacy-The Normal

22. Visual Literacy-To the Novel http://www.psykopaint.com/

23. Media Literacy- Animoto Videos http://animoto.com/education http://bit.ly/bF6crv http://bit.ly/8Yc8C5

24. Media Literacy-Myxer.com http://www.myxer.com/ Upload image and music files to create wallpapers and ringtones for your phone. It's Easy! Have students upload music files to create ringtones for their phones and teach them about fair use and audio media. It's Easy!

25. Multi-Cultural Literacy-The Whole is Greater than the Sum Establishing personal relationships paves the way for more cooperative negotiation dynamics. Parties develop a sense that the other group's beliefs and values are similar to their own, and more likely to frame issues as mutual problems, refrain from personal attacks and build on the other side's ideas.

27. Teaching Strategies

31. IBL-Mind Maps http://www.mindmeister.com/

34. Problem Based Learning Example Use the tools to transfer content and combine it into a single object Flickr Photo Site Animoto Video Site WordPress Class Blog Site

37. Constructivist Learning Example Web Site Develop a research question and develop a presentation web site using multiple content types and tools. http://sites.google.com/site/lib201site/

39. Assesment

41. Google Forms