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Beyond Classroom Walls
New Boundaries for Teaching and Learning
with Digital Tools

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Redefine Boundaries
Elsewhere
Student
Instructor

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Social, networked learning
- Comfort with being uncomfortable (thanks Jeff!)
- Social != drinks & snacks, parties, Facebook games.
- Create a space for shared thinking and practice
- Instructor sets an example

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Student | Instructor
Make myself and class more open

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Communication Methods
Phone
Email
Student Me
In Person

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Communication Methods with Digital Tools
Phone
Blogs
Facebook
Email
Student Me
Twitter
AIM
In Person

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Lay down rules
- Discuss grades only in person
- Status messages for AIM
- Try other ways if I don’t respond.
- Uncomfortable? Use three traditional methods.

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Good course website...
- Makes it easy to access course information
- Encourages student participation
- Easy for instructor to manage.

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Course Sitemap
Display 10 blog posts
Link to Facebook App
Link to archives
Search course site
Home
Display Contact Information
Requirements Projects Schedule Students
Discuss with class about
Course policies Weekly schedule pulled
Wikipedia entry
user profiles.
Required books from database.
Course weblog
Link to individual
Attendance Make sure all links to
Blog Comments
student blogs
readings work!
Movie Review
Make sure the vCal link
works!

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Course Site

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Subscribe to vCal file
Click it!

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Pull Schedule into Calendar App
Includes title,
date, and assignments
in notes

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Facebook App Click it!

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Facebook App

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Facebook App

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Facebook App

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S ScholarPress
- Courseware - Use WordPress for course site
- WPBook - Pull WordPress blog into Facebook

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Student | Other Students
- Weblogs and blog comments.
- Use blogs as intro for in-class discussion
- Use students for tech support

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Weblogs
- Group versus Individual
- My best course blog: 200+ posts, 500+ comments

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Student Groups on Blog

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Student Activity on Blog

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Jump-start Discussion
- Open with asking a student about a post she wrote.
- Ask another student who commented to elaborate.
- Blogs are great for “Intellectual Playfulness.”

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Edublogs

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Blog services
- WordPress
- Edublogs
- Blogger
- Typepad

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Students | Elsewhere
- Explore other communities doing history
- Group work beyond the classroom, beyond fellow
students in class.

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Flickr “History” Groups

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Wikipedia
1. Write a ~500 word article on a topic related to
history, with proper citations and a bibliography, with
links to two websites and two Wikipedia pages.
2. Watch what happens to your article after
publishing, talk to others contributing, try to save your
article if its flagged for deleting, and write about your
experience.

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Choose a Topic: Wikipedia “Stubs”

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Learn how to write for Wikipedia

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Post, watch, and respond!

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Possible Results?
A Wikipedia keeps the article.
B Wikipedia reverts changes.
C Wikipedia flags the article for deletion

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Why Assign Wikipedia?
- Demystify Wikipedia
- Writing facts versus making arguments
- Broaden audience, encourage participation.

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Goals with Digital Tools:
- Teach students how to communicate.
- Demonstrate how to use social media responsibly.
- Make myself and course more open and usable.
- Encourage students to participate in learning
outside of classroom.

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My Toolkit
- Course Website/Weblog, with a few plugins
- Social Media: personal blog, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube
- Instant Messenger, cell phone, txt
- Facebook
- Wikipedia

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Thanks!
Lets Talk More:
- Email: jeremy@clioweb.org
- AIM: jboggs22
- Web: clioweb.org
- Twitter: twitter.com/clioweb
- Slides at: slideshare.com/clioweb