The document discusses designing ANGEL course content for varied student learning styles and abilities. It notes students learn in different ways, through visual, auditory, tactile means and their multiple intelligences. ANGEL and web tools can engage different learners. ANGEL features like milestones, icons, discussions and links provide visual, verbal and multimedia content. The web allows interactivity, social contact and instructor/student content through blogs, videos, social networks, wikis and tutorials. Together ANGEL and the web provide varied content and tools to connect students to course material and knowledge.

1. ANGEL for
today’s students
Designing ANGEL course content
for a varied student population
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2. cookie-cutter learners?
• visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles
• multiple intelligences
• computer literate vs. technology fluent
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3. a challenge
Knowing that students learn in varied ways
and respond to many types of content, the
challenge becomes delivering
instruction that engages all students, for a
successful learning experience.
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4. ANGEL delivers
• milestones add visual reminders
• custom icons provide visual recognition
• discussion boards are a verbal forum
• links and pages enable multimedia
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5. milestones
• provide a visual map of
assignments
• allow interaction
through tactile checklist
• simplify navigation for
learners who are
intimidated by
“computers”
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6. custom icons
• provide visual
recognition
• indicate task or content
types instantly
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7. links and pages
• provide one-click
content delivery within
ANGEL
• engage audio-visual
learners with embedded
videos
• can include learning
objectives and outcomes
as page content
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8. the web provides
• interactivity for tactile learners who learn
by doing and kinesthetic learners who
respond to representations of action
• social contact for interpersonal learners
• environment for instructor-provided source
material and student-created content
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9. blogs
• create an ongoing verbal
record
• provide interpersonal
interaction
• allow intrapersonal
reflection
• enable repetition of
lecture for auditory
learners
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10. videos
• provide audio-visual
content delivery
• engage kinesthetic types
with representations of
“doing”
• can capture lectures for
playback within ANGEL
• allow tactile and
kinesthetic creation
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11. social networks
• encourage interpersonal
communication
• provide audio-visual
reminders
• remove intimidation by
extending relationships to
the social environment
• allow evolving set of links
through social bookmarks
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12. wikis
• provide verbal forum
• allow interpersonal
interaction
• encourage creation
• enable logical learners to
work out and solve
problems in groups
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13. tutorials
• can be text or video
• engage verbal and visual or
audio-visual learners
• allow tactile and kinesthetic
types to learn by creating
• can demonstrate
complicated procedures or
methods for finding course
material on the web
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14. the one-two punch
Together, ANGEL and the web
provide vast amounts of content and
a ready environment to help you
connect your students to course
material and, ultimately, knowledge.
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15. Thanks for listening!
Rose Petralia – rose@lacking.org
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16. resources
• 21 Classes: http://www.21classes.com • Jing: http://www.jingproject.com
• Blogger: http://www.blogger.com • PBWiki: https://my.pbworks.com
• CamStudio: http://camstudio.org • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com
• Delicious: http://delicious.com • Vimeo: http://vimeo.com
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com • YouTube: http://youtube.com
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