Eileen O'Connor discusses how emerging technologies have been integrated into online courses to make them less text-based and more interactive. These technologies include streaming video case studies, Second Life, wikis, and YouTube videos. Administrative and peer support was critical in enabling faculty to experiment with these new technologies. Some evidence is provided on how each technology was used, such as streaming videos of teaching lessons, holding class sessions in Second Life, and students posting microteaching videos on YouTube. The support from colleagues to share ideas and experiences with new technologies has been essential for faculty to embrace technological changes in online education.

1. Using Emerging Technologies By Eileen O’Connor, Ph.D. And peer & administrative support within Empire State College’s Center for Graduate Programs

2. The technologies and the sharing: the value of the Spiders Over the past few years, the following have been integrated into online courses: Streaming video case-studies for discussion Second Life Wikis (www.wetpaint.com ) YouTube for microteaching Ideas and support from the Spiders & from the graduate dean – critical for enabling the use of emerging technologies

3. To make online less text based and more truly interactive To continuously improve online courses so they can become more useful ways of creating a change in teaching practice Having administrative and peer support has furthered this dream considerably Some evidence on the following slides Personal motto

4. Beginning with streaming video Giving online pre-service teachers a better opportunity to see effective teaching

5. Urban students with creative lessons were taped & then streamed into courses Online graduate students were able to consider best practices that they were not necessarily seeing in their K12 observations Students showed concern & repartee & respect for each others ideas

6. Second Life Interactivity and personalization for graduate courses Extended interaction opportunities Across geography & disciplines A virtual meeting space, discussion area, and classroom

7. MAT Science Center (under revamping)

8. Class presentations – PowerPoint gone virtual

9. Multiple means of communication & real classrooms

10. Meeting the Dean

11. Guest lecturers – assistive technologies

12. ISTE – preparing for a meeting

13. NSF – NASA virtual meeting

14. Virtual, but real, weather

15. NOAA site - tsuanami

16. Best expressed through an instructional metaphor: like designing an intelligent experience (field trip / discussions / role playing / construction) . . . with an assessment More advanced uses

17. Using wikis Testing ways to encourage better peer networking Creating real resources that can be used later

18. The assignmentprocess

19. Findings & conclusions – no longer the vacuum of lost work – open education The peer assessment was an important facet of expanded learning

21. YouTubes Posting their microteaching lessons – within an online course Better review: By content-pedagogy faculty Assessment of use of technologies Better collegiality and knowledge of the students Easy to use / excellent for performance based assessment

22. View students’ actual work

23. Determine if they are performing correctly . . . even at a distance

24. Value to using YouTube, in general

25. The support, sharing, & encouragement have been the most critical elements Ideas from colleagues; willingness to share and experiment Managerial support – ESSENTIAL if faculty are to embrace tech; especially early implementers UNDERLYING THEME WITH NEW TECH: How do we value, integrate, measure, assess, and update-our-thinking about the affordances available with these amazing new communication tools?