This document provides suggestions for incorporating technology into the classroom to facilitate student engagement and participation. It recommends using interactive polling tools like Socrative and Poll Everywhere to encourage participation in new ways. To make online classes feel more personal, it advises using tools like Kaltura, YouTube, and screencasting to allow students to see and hear instructors. VoiceThread, Evernote, and wikis are presented as ways for students to hear each other's voices. The document also suggests using social media, animation, and games to engage students through fun interactive activities.

1. Innovative
Technologies
for the
Classroom

2. How can we embrace technology
in the classroom in a way that
facilitates student engagement?

3. 1. Encourage participation in
new and different ways
 Learn how to use Socrative and Poll
Everywhere

4. Socrative
Pretend you’re a student:
 Go to m.socrative.com on your
smartphone or your computer
 Or download the socrative app from the
App Store onto your smartphone

5. Socrative
Pretend you’re a student:
 When prompted, enter room number
108348

6. Socrative
Now you’re the instructor:
 Go to www.socrative.com
 Click “Get Started Now”
 Register with your UTA email address and
create a password

9. Socrative
 You can create quizzes with multiple
choice or short answer questions
 You can even insert images into your
questions
 Try it!

10. Poll Everywhere
 Create your own poll now at
www.polleverywhere.com
 It’s so easy!

11. Encourage participation in
new and different ways
 Interactive whiteboard
 www.awwapp.com
 Backchannel or Twitter

12. How can we make the impersonal
environment of an online class more
personal?

13. 1. Allow students to see and
hear you (and each other)!
 Change your Blackboard Profile Picture to
a real picture of you, and encourage your
students to do the same!

14. 1. Allow students to see and
hear you!
 Make videos of
yourself introducing
topics and
clarifying concepts
 Kaltura Media in
Blackboard
 YouTube (create
your own channel)

15. 2. Use Screencasting to explain
technology and provide feedback
 Some useful tools for screencasting:
 Jing
 Screencast-o-matic.com
 My explanation is accessible here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrlPQNK
xGRg
 And here’s how I’ve used screencasting in
my class:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrskrVD
7Ks

16. 3. Let students hear your
voice (and each other)
 Consider using VoiceThread or Evernote
to supplement or replace the traditional
Discussion Board
 Great tutorial from Dr. Jill Scheifelbein at
ASU here: http://impromptuguru.com/start-
here-area/

17. 4. Communicate frequently
 Consider adding a wiki to your class in
Blackboard
 In addition to your weekly
announcements, email/post an
announcement that is relevant and timely
on a regular basis
 Encourage students to contribute
regularly, either through a wiki, email, or
discussion board

18. Other fun ideas
 Animate yourself!
 www.goanimate.com
 Example:
http://goanimate.com/user/05zPscnYExxo?utm_
source=emailshare&refuser=05zPscnYExxo
 Draw something!
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCL1DEi8d
Pw
 Play Jeopardy
 (I can send you the files)

19. Other fun ideas
 Have students try a free buzzer app
 Use social media:
http://www.pinterest.com/dianemitschke/

20. Previous Technology
Brownbags
Making the Impersonal Personal:
http://www.slideshare.net/dianemitschke/m
aking-the-impersonal-personal
Flipping the Classroom:
http://www.slideshare.net/dianemitschke/fli
pping-the-classroom-31581112