LTI session at PCC - Nov., 2009

1. Engaged Learning
Using Web 2.0 Tools
Google
Wave
Live
Question
Tool
TextMeLater
Zotero
Nanette Stillwell
Curriculum Coord./Instructor
Maybe Web Technologies
More…

2. Generation NOW!!

3. Today’s LTI Topics
• Student Access & Engagement
–Directly relates to the PCC Goal #1
• Teaching with Technology
• Pedagogy of Collaboration

4. Software We Will Explore
• Google Wave
• Live Question Tool
• TextMeLater
• Google Forms
• Maybe more…

5. What You Will Learn
• How to foster collaboration without
spending any $$
• How to keep your students on track
using THEIR cell phones – not yours
• How to engage distance learners
• How to create simple to use
surveys/forms - FREE

6. Google Wave
Google Wave is a real-time
communication platform
Let’s see what it does

7. Google Wave Features
• Real-time
• Embeddability (blog or website)
• Functions like a wiki – with totally editing capability by
anyone in the wave
• Open source
• Playback
• Natural Language
• Drag & drop file sharing

8. Let’s Start with Terms
– http://cuthut.com/UjQ

9. What does it do Differently?
• Conversation tracking in real time
• Gadgets and robots can be added to manage
everything from facebook and email to project
management
• With Wave Extensions users can build entire
communication and file sharing systems for
project management
• Embedded waves can take the place of IM and
can be used for customer service applications

10. What does it do Differently?
• Playback a conversation from beginning to
end rather than parsing together tons of
emails and documents – the documents will
be included within the wave
• Open source means the code will be made
available to all developers to foster innovation
of the product

11. How will it change the Web?
• A robust Content Management System
• Customer Support
[think virtual advising, student assistance with
assignments]
• Building a more interactive / creative learning
environment
- Proofreading / writing papers
-Brainstorming potential project ideas
- Interactive tutoring from home
- Collaborative Environment for Cyber Schooling
• Potential to transform education with widgets,
gadgets, and robots

12. Advantages
• Synchronous or asynchronous
• Iterative Collaboration
• In the Cloud – not hosted locally
• A WAVE is one space where multiple users can…
– Access content
– Respond to content
– Change content
– Replay content
– Add the content to a blog (or other online app)
– Add media components

13. Let’s Look at Google Wave

14. Advantages
• How Do I get Google Wave
– Currently only in Beta form (Sept. 09)
– Invitation only
– Full release expected within 6-12 months
• How Does it Work?
– Kind of like email – there is an inbox accessed online
– Kind of like a CMS – it’s all online
– It can be synchronous, real time, or asynchronous
– Conversations/Projects may be linear or not
– The playback feature allows all participants in a wave to
view the entire history of the wave including changes/edits

15. Advantages
• All media types supported
– Interactive maps, informal polls, much…much
more!
• Wavelets – subconversations of waves can be
global within the wave or private
• Robots
– Language translation
• Gadgets
– Like with iGoogle

16. What is Significant about
Google Wave?
• Participants can brainstorm ideas, develop
projects, edit projects at the same time or
whenever they choose – it will change the way
project management is handled
• Opens the way for educators (and others) to
reevaluate how we communicate online, how
we store communication, and how we share
communication

17. So what’s NOT good about Wave?
• Early adoption – how many and who?
• Full release not yet ready
• Change resistance

18. The Crystal Ball
• For education, Wave has the potential create
online meeting spaces for students and faculty
that integrate and synthesize all sorts of
interaction – more flexible than current f2f or
CMS systems

19. The Crystal Ball
• Student groups can use Wave to...
• Create joint projects
• Conduct analysis
• Team based learning
• Project based learning
• A Personal Learning Space that will used for
• Information collection
• Information storage
• Multimedia composition (not text-based)
• Peer interaction/review

20. What might an instructor do with
Google Wave
• New avenues for critiquing group projects or
indvidual portfolios – including music and art
• Change how knowledge is created, stored, and
shared
• Model problem solving processes appropriate
to specific disciplines
• Conduct virtual advising
• Assist students with assignments

21. Final Thoughts on Google Wave
• Communication medium
• Collaboration space
• Idea repository
• Media repository
• Foster the exchange of ideas

22. YouTube/EDU
• Began in 2005
• Free video streaming servers
• Shareable
• Public or restricted to members of contact lists
• Embeddable
• Uses Flash Player to play videos

23. What makes it worthwhile
• FREE
• Easy watching/sharing of video without
involving a streaming media server from the
organization
• Availability of profile information of users
Let’s check out an EDU channel
http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400

24. Teaching & Learning Implications
• Video content readily available to students
• Community of sharing among educators
and/or students
• Current Use of YouTube EDU – mostly
recruiting and university
lectures/presentations
• Not limited to the EDU channels – explore
channels http://www.youtube.com/channels

25. Other video resources
• Teachertube
http://www.teachertube.com/
• Schooltube
http://www.schooltube.com/

26. Capture Video and Convert to AVI or WMV
YouTube Downloader
http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-
10647340.html?tag=mncol
– Open application
– Copy/paste video URL
– Choose where to save – click on show files
– Browse to find downloaded video
– Choose convert
– Choose conversion options
– Successful message appears

27. YouTube Downloader Demo
Demo

28. TextMeLater
• FREE – must sign up
• Schedule bulk text messages to students
• www.textmelater.com
• Assignment and Test Reminders
• Data corrections
• Speed with which we deliver information
important to learners

29. • Another SMS resource – not free
• http://www.m-science.com/products/sms-
online.php
• Available with new EAI adoption if it happens
next fall at PCC
• EAI Enterprise Application Integration
– My Campus portal developed by the Educause EAI
Consortium

31. Live Question Tool
• Developed and hosted by Harvard
• FREE
• May be hosted at any location – open source
(like Moodle)
• Real time question/answer tool
• Encourages audience involvement and
interaction

32. Live Question Tool
• Handles one class well, may handle up to 200
participants
• Replies may be made during a
lecture/presentation/class or on the
“instance” site and viewed later by all
participants
• Participants vote on questions and the
question list is ordered by highest number of
votes

33. Live Question Tool
• Easy to use
• FREE
• Builds interactivity into a lecture
• Students engage with the content and the
instructor by helping to determine which
topics will addressed or emphasized
• Maps to higher-order thinking skills in Bloom’s
Taxonomy

34. Live Question Tool
• Con: must have computer and Internet access
to participate
• Collaborative
• Anonymity
• Helps students learn to form questions
relevant to the content
• Ability to blend f2f and distance learning
venues

35. Zotero
• Strictly a research tool
• Manages online references
• Developed by George Mason University
• Extension for the Firefox Browser
• Uses intelligent software to determine
bibliographic information and place the info in
the user’s resource library

36. • Users can drag resources to MS Word or
Google Docs and an appropriate citation is
generated
• Research sources are streamlined
• Citations are consistent
• Cross-referencing available
• Currently only stores on user’s machine

37. Zotero
• Zotero developers may eventually produce an
online application
• Supports research
• http://www.zotero.org/
• Zotero video
http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_g
uide
• Acess from Tools menu in Firefox

38. Zotero Demo
• Launch Firefox
• Find a site to use in research
Example: My choice
• Access from Tools menu in Firefox after
installation

39. WEB 2.0 tools
5th Graders in New Bern, NC
• http://missstillwell5thgrade.wikispaces.com/
• http://novelgroup6.wikispaces.com/

40. Go Forth and Collaborate
• Begin to brainstorm ideas for using Google Wave
when the application is available to the public
• Add videos and other media (podcasts, etc.) to
your Moodle courses, in class presentations, and
develop your own repository of media to use
later in a Wave
• Practice text messaging students with
TextMeLater – a feature that will be available to
us with our new PCC portal probably by next fall
• Practice using Zotero for your own research, then
share with students for research projects