Exploring Online Tools for Teaching (Clean)

Exploring Online Tools For Teaching Alexandre Enkerli Department of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University http://enkerli.wordpress.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/Enkerli

Introduction
Overwhelmed?
Internet use by students
Internet use by colleagues
Technology changes
Accompany teaching changes
What can be done?
Moodle
Facebook
Other tools

Workshop
Exploration of tools
Inside classroom
Outside classroom
Presentation
Experiences, learning contexts
Round-table discussion
Some issues with educational technology

Plan
Self-introductions
Presentation on tools
Discuss other tools
Discussion on issues

Why Am I Here?
Nobody special (PTF at Soc. and Anthro.)
“ Free, Open, Flexible: Rethinking Learning Materials Online ” (Spirit of Inquiry)
Tech/Teach backgrounds
Use of Online Tools
Ph.D. seminar

Computer Technology
“ Wannabe geek” (online since 1993)
Hang out with “geeks”
Blogger since 2005

Teaching
Ghost of Piaget
Diverse teaching experience (Qc, NB, IN, MA)
Informal and formal teaching
Bridges between life and teaching
“ Born to teach ” Facebook group

Controversial Stance?
“ Learning happens despite teaching”
“ Tools meant to be used”
Think about possibilities (“sales pitch”)
Anti-deterministic

Participant Introductions

Presenting Tools

Tools to Cover
Moodle
Facebook
RefWorks
Slideshare

Moodle A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

Moodle
Learning/Course Management System
Virtual Learning Environment
Also: Sakai, Oncourse, Blackboard , WebCT
“ Interactive course website.”
Provide content
Do activities

Moodle Use
Platform (modules, applications)
Resources (content) or Activities (interaction)
Constructivist model
Teacher-student connection
Moodle community

Moodle Issues
Outside authentication (ConU)
Training/documentation
Versions
Some confusing tools
Toward social networking

Facebook A social utility that connects you with the people around you

Facebook
800 lbs. gorilla
Social phenomenon
“ Where students are”
Social networking system
Platform with applications

Facebook and Learning
Socialisation
Peer-learning
Informal learning
Discovery
Use as CMS

Facebook Issues
Black hole? (“Addictive”)
Commercial site (advertising)
Scarcity of dedicated learning tools
Lack clear roles
“ Where students are”

RefWorks Your online research management, writing and collaboration tool

RefWorks Use
Online citation manager
“ Web-enabled EndNote”
Concordia availability
Library catalogues (CLUES, MUSE...)
Google Scholar integration
Desktop integration (Microsoft Word)
RefShare

RefWorks Issues
Few students really use
Cumbersome login (ConU)
Few databases (PubMed, OCLC Trial)
Missing some Endnote features?
Attachment
Formatted list
Handheld/PDA

SlideShare YouTube for PowerPoint

SlideShare Use
Upload before class
Edit during class
Embed after class
Slidecast (with sound)

Slideshare Issues
PowerPoint/PDF/OpenDocument
Changed fonts
Posting delays
Indirect editing (unlike Zoho show )
Cumbersome audio synchronisation

Other Tools

Other tools
Google Docs
Had to learn
Skype
Screens
Email feedback

Blogspot
Comments
Feedback on assignments
Comfortable expressing themselves
Interconnect after class (Moodle gone)
Semi-public
Successful

Research use of Web
Online databases
Instead of entertainment
Patrick Labelle
Research librarians

Online Workshops
Dreamweaver
References from face-to-face workshop
Professional video
Program application
RefWorks workshop?
Download/show
IITS and CTLS
Refresher

Basecamp?
Storage
Large
Closed/private

Discuss Issues

Discuss Issues (examples)
Comfort
Luddites and fear of technology
Shelters or windmills
Teacher control
Online/offline learning
Informal/formal learning
Resources (time, money)

Attitudes
Technology proficiency
“ Old-Fashioned”
Outside help
Want to learn
Experimentation
Concentrating on teaching vs. tools
Facebook too public
Textbook/didactic
Technology helps

Time-consumption
To learn
To use
To control
Focus on teaching

Moodle frustration
Abandon (lack of support)
Open Source (could be dealt with)
Assignment use
Came from Site Generator
Own way to use

Expectations
Ex. PowerPoint
Not about entertainment
Pandering to expectations
Bells and whistles, “Wow factor”
Tangible product of/for teaching

Pleasing students
Bother to show up?
Online evaluation
Teaching expectations
Tenure system
Part-time
Learning styles
Ways to remember
Grades

Student Diversity
Non-traditional students
Students not sold on empty PowerPoint
Get to understand learning /teaching

Change in university climate
Service-based learners
Deep-level learners
Change in proportions
Autodidact/self-learning
Our expectations
As process
Disciplines
Excitement

Legal Issues?
Getting out of hand
Lawsuits?
“ Paranoid fascist”
Student diversity

Comfort level
Students’
Not that comfortable
Teacher’s
Added stress for setting up (logistics)
Resource person (individual support)
We’re also learners

Hope!
Been using a tool, comfortable
Need for something else?
Use constructively /critically
Not prison
Special population

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