This document discusses using Web 2.0 tools to address teaching challenges. It begins with an introduction that notes students understand information has changed and teachers must adapt. Several questions in higher education are then listed related to participatory learning, technology use, and online collaboration. Potential Web 2.0 tools are then matched to levels of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, including Delicious for remembering, Animoto for understanding, and Voicethread for creating. The document concludes by stating teachers should have fun exploring new tools.

1. Teaching Challenges
and
Web 2.0 Tools
Julie Gahimer PT, HSD
Professor
Krannert School of Physical Therapy
University of Indianapolis
Presented as a Component of Implementer Grant
January 9, 2012

2. "What our students understand (and that we,
as teachers, seem blind to) is that the very
nature of information has changed. It's
changed in what it looks like, what we look
at to view it, where we find it, what we can
do with it, and how we communicate it. We
live in a brand new, and dynamically rich
information environment, and if we are going
to reach our students in a way that is
relevant to their world and their future (and
ours), then we must teach them from this
new information environment." -David
Warlick

5. Questions in Higher
Education
(Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007)
 What is the value of participatory learning
(video repositories, wikis)?
 Should students be allowed to bring cell
phones, ipods, MP3 players to class?
 How do we assess the quality of on-line
education?
 Should students be able to utilize
wikipedia/scholarpedia as information

6. Questions in Higher
Education
(Chronicle of Higher Education,2007)
 How can we best utilize on-line collaboration
tools such as Skype and Google talk for
educational purposes?
 How can we make educational use of virtual
reality in academics?
 Can learning occur in cafes and pubs?
 Does learning really exist in one’s own hands?

7. Fun Facts About Learning
 80% of us are visual learners
 11% of us are auditory learners
 9% of us are kinesthetic learners
 If content is presented 1X ,in 30 days the
retention will be 10%
 If content is presented 6X, in 30 days the
retention will be 90%

8. Who is the Net Generation?
 Born in or after 1982  Always connected to
 8 out of 10 say it is their social network
cool to be smart  Experiential
 Have a fascination  Crave interactivity
with new technologies  Visual spatial skills
 Digitally literate  Parallel processing
 Mobile  Attentional deployment

9. Interesting Facts about the Net
Generation
 By the age of 21:
◦ 10,000 hours of videogames
◦ 200,000 e-mails
◦ 20,000 hours of TV
◦ 10,000 hours of cell phone use
◦ Less than 5,000 hours of reading

10. Concerns Related to the Net Get
 Short attention spans
 Choose not to pay attention
 Reflection not often valued
 Source quality
 Text literacy

11. How are Net Gen students
different than the old time
professors?
 Ctl-alt-del is as basic as ABC
 Computers have always fit in their
backpacks
 Gas has always been unleaded
 Are comfortable composing documents on-
line and not long hand
 Memory has been turned over to hand held
devices
 Constantly connected

12. 9 Strategies for Dealing with
Today’s Learners
 Focus on “You”
 Love your audience
 Fill in the blanks
 Tell a story
 Provide easy navigation
 Make it visual
 Stay short and sweet
 Write a recipe

13. Remember our Students Have
Multiple Intelligences
 Linguistic- “word smart”
 Logical- mathematical
“number/reasoning smart”
 Spatial- “picture smart”
 Bodily-kinesthetic “body smart”
 Musical- “music smart”
 Interpersonal -“people smart”
 Intrapersonal- “self smart”
 Naturalist- “nature smart”

14. Top 5 Teaching and Learning
Challenges from UIndy Faculty
2010 can I engage and motivate
1. How
students as well as keep things
interesting?
2. How can I create active learning
strategies and get student’s attention to
accomplish course goals?
3.How can I assess true learning?
4.How can I create effective learning
objectives?
5.How can I manage my time when there
is so much content?

15. The World is Open
Curtis J Bonk
2009

16. WE-ALL-LEARN FRAMEWORK
Curtis Bonk (2009)
• Web Searching in the World of e-Books
• E-Learning and Blended Learning
• Availability of Open Source and Free
Software
• Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
• Learning Object Repositories and Portals
• Learner Participation in Open Information
Communities
• Electronic Collaboration
• Alternate Reality Learning
• Real-Time Mobility and Portability
• Networks of Personalized Learning

17. Opener#1 Web Searching in the
World of e-Books
E-Books:
• Simulations, study aids, dictionaries,
games, hyperlinks to the Web,
multimedia, student authoring tools,
enhanced data searching capabilities,
email, discussion forums, and evaluation
tools
• California is adopting policies for digital
and open access textbooks as a means
to reduce the state deficit and enhance
learning.

18. Opener #2 E-Learning and
Blended Learning
K-12 E-Learning:
• Michigan has mandated 20 hours of online
experience to complete high school
• Students must take one online class to pass
high school
• Florida has mandated online course access in
every school district from K-12
Higher Education E-Learning:
• University of Illinois at Springfield and the
University of Central Florida now offer many of
the exact same courses in face-to-face, blended,
and fully online formats. Students select the
delivery mode

19. Opener #3 Availability of Open
Source and Free Software
Free and Open Source Course
Management Systems:
• Moodle and Sakai are free and open
source options
• As of February 10, 2009, there were
620,000 registered users of Moodle
from 204 countries speaking 78
languages.

20. Opener #4 Leveraged Resources
and OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare:
 MIT (1,890 online courses)
 Hundreds of other universities and
other organizations are placing their
courses online

21. Opener #5 Learning Object
Repositories and Portals
Learning Portals
 Digital museums and countless digital libraries
 Free dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses
 Open Access Journals
◦ Public Library of Science (PLoS) free peer reviewed
scientific journals in healthcare
◦ Scivee- allows users to hear or see the scientist explain the
research in “pubcasts”
 Online Sharing Communities:
Connexions- All ages-from Rice University
Merlot- Higher Education- contains more than
20,000 free learning contents (many peer reviewed)
Curriki- free K-12 content

22. Opener #6 Learner Participation in
Open Information Communities
Shared Online Video
 Millions of freely available educational videos in You Tube Edu,
TeacherTube, Big Think, NomadsLand, Current TV, Link TV, Howcst,
Wonderhowto, Google Video, CNN video and BBC Audio and Video.
 Stanford, MIT and Berkeley have their own You Tube and iTunes U
channels
 Matt Harding dances around the world and becomes of teacher of
geography 2008, 22 million views
 Lee LeFever’s “In Plain English”videos from Common Craft have
been viewed millions of times
 Scribd is the YouTube of Text documents
 Wikis: Wikipedia (10 millions pages of content in more than 250
languages) Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikitionary, Wikinews, and
Wikibooks

23. Opener #7 Electronic Collaboration
Guest Experts on Demand:
 Webcam can be used for text
chat, online discussion
forums, interactive videoconferencing
(Skype, Google Talk)
 Microsoft offers SharePoint, and Groove
 Google offers Google Groups and
Google Docs
 Ning online community- 1 million groups

24. Opener #8 Alternate Reality
Learning
Virtual Worlds:
 Second Life has more than 16 million residents (2009),
more than 1 million people log on each day.
 Colleges professors are using Second Life to teach law
at Harvard, English at Ball State University, sex
education at the University of Plymouth in the UK
 Medical schools and hospitals are conducting
simulations and other instructional activities that
previously were extremely expensive.
 Businesses like IBM and Dell are utilizing Second Life
and other virtual worlds for employee training,
community building, special announcements, and online
conferences.

25. Opener #9 Real-Time Mobility and
Portability
Mobile Learning
 Mobile learning will transform education around the planet.
 More than 28 percent of the population as of March 2009
 On a global basis, there are 60,000 new mobile subscriptions
every hour
 720,000 more people who can learn online each day and tens
of millions more people each month
 Mobile Technology Give-aways
 Albilene Christan University- giving away iPhones to incoming
students
 Oklahoma Christina University giving away both an iPhone
(or iPod Touch) and an Apple Macbook laptop to incoming
students.

26. Opener #10 Networks of
Personalized Learning
Online Language Learning
 Foreign Languages via Livemocha,
ChinesePod, Spanish Pod, Mixxer,
KanTalk, Ecpod (many are free).

27. Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0
Web 1.0- “a brochure”
Web 2.0- “users add value”
Web 3.0-???????

29. How Do I Determine What Tools
to Use?
Low Risk High Risk
Time
Student Centered
Cost

30. Low Tech Resources
 Handouts
 Overhead projectors
 Flip charts
 Blackboard
 VCR tapes
 Slides

31. Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)

32. Bloom’s Taxonomy
1950’s 1990’s - Digital

36. Web 2.0 Tools and Bloom’s
Taxonomy

37. DELICIOUS
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Remembering
 Social Bookmarking site
 Allows access to bookmarks anywhere
 Social component allows for accessing
other’s bookmarks
 Activity: See How to Store videos,
resources for courses you teach
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

38. ANIMOTO
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy:
Understanding
 Video with Music Creation Tool
 Activity: View Student Project related
to bullying in Nursing Practice
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

39. NETVIBES
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Applying
 Aggregator of Resources
 Activity: View the UIndy School of
Business Netvibes Page
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

40. SLIDESHARE
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Analyzing
 Presentation Resources for content
and /or graphics
 Activity: Choose a topic of interest and
type into Slideshare
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

41. EXTRANORMAL
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Analyzing
 Video-creation site following a
storyline, text to movie
 Activity: View the short video entitled
OT vs PT
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

42. VOICETHREAD
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Creating
 Conversations around Audio and Images
 Upload images, documents, and videos
 Add narration and vocal commentary to
create an audio/visual presentation or
product
 Activity: View Kathy Bohley’s mini-lecture
on International Marketing, notice the
student responses
 Task: How could this be used in the
classes you teach?

43. LET’S GET TO
WORK!
HAVE FUN!