It’s more than just
Word & PowerPoint

A Vision of Students Today

Knowledge is specific content
Learners are empty
vessels to be filled
with knowledge

Knowledge is created
Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift

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)

Pay Attention

Are You Paying Attention?
How do your students learn?
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How do you assess their learning?
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What is the difference between a digital

native and a digital immigrant?

Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
 One year or less
Social Networking
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User-Created Content
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 Two-Three Years
Mobile Phones
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Virtual Worlds
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 Four-Five Years
New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
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Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
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Choose the Right Tool
Communication
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Content
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Collaboration
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Organization/Mgt
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Assessment
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Synchronous Communication
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 Virtual Conferencing
 Elluminate
 Chats
 Skype
Asynchronous Communication
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 E-mail
 Blackboard Discussion Boards
 Blogs
Social Networks
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―Live‖ interactive virtual environment
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 Communication
 Presentation
 Interaction
 instruction

Chats
Usually organized around a particular topic
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Interaction through typed messages
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Works well for brainstorming or if format is well
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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

FREE VoIP technology
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make audio and video phone calls from

your computer
Promoting Synchronous Interaction
in an eLearning Environment

Discussion Board Forums
Time and place independent
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Time between messages allows for reflection
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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

Blogging in Education

Blogging: Most Recognized Example

Blogs in Plain English

Social Networks: Connect Users into
Communities of Trust (or interests)

Social Networking
in Plain English

Social Networking Software
Social Networks
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 Keep contacts online through web interfaces
 MySpace, FaceBook most common
Social Calendaring
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 Share agendas for events arrangements and
meetings planning
 Groupwise, Google Calendar

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

Microsoft Office
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Web-based applications (Google Apps)
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YouTube/TeacherTube
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i3D
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 Learning objects
 Simulations
Podcasts
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WebQuests
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Education Today & Tomorrow

Invention of the Year (2006)

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

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

i3D
Learning Objects
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Simulations
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i3D—Head Anatomy

Podcasting
Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast

Differs from streaming audio
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 Automatically delivered to player –don’t
have to click on a link to download
 Listen when you want – not when a
program is scheduled

Podcasting in Plain English

Finding Them

Making Them
Dead simple More involved
Windows Audacity Audacity
Sound Recorder
+ +
or
Freecorder Podomatic Blog
or +
Digital voice Feedburner
recorder
+
Podomatic

Inquiry-oriented lesson format in which
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most or all the information that learners
work with comes from the web.
WebQuest.org
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History of Computers WebQuest
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Will Technology Elevate Higher Education?
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Google/Yahoo Groups
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 Blogs
 Blogger
Wikis
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 Wikispaces
 pbwiki
Virtual Reality (2nd Life)
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Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary
Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wikis in Plain English

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

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

Wikis in Education
Amistad wiki
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Creative Web Tools For and By Kids
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Welker's Wikinomics Page
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Eckerd College
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Teaching & Learning Resources wiki
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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)

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
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 Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for
the course

Course Management Systems
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RSS
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iGoogle
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Slideshare
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Flickr
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Social Bookmarking
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 de.licio.us
 Furl
 Citeulike

RSS in Plain English

Personalize your
homepage

World's largest community for sharing

presentations on the web
Can embed YouTube videos
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Can narrate presentations online
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Linked to LinkedIn social network
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Linked to Blogger
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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.

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

Social Bookmarking
in Plain English

Multi-User Virtual Worlds
Educational Games
Second Life in Education wiki
NobelPrize.org games

Educational Uses of 2nd Life

Assessment
Respondus
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Rubrics
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Project-Based Learning
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Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
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Blackboard Test Manager
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What your classroom might look like…