This document summarizes a workshop on using technology in liberal education. It introduces the topics that will be covered, including aggregating resources, web applications, multimedia pedagogy, and next steps. It discusses how technology can be used in the classroom, including examples of early web applications and multimedia tools. It also covers finding and using multimedia resources and presentations, as well as tips to avoid "death by PowerPoint".

1. Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education Lee University, February 20, 2008 Jennifer Sader & Becca Anzalone NITLE

2. Workshop Overview 0. Introductions and overview Resource aggregation Web Applications Multimedia pedagogy Next Steps

3. What does liberal education mean to you?

4. How does your university’s mission embody a liberal education?

5. How do you use technology in the classroom?

6. Break Stop and Write Come Back at 10:30 AM

7. Early Modern Information Overload “ We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire . . .” Adrien Baillet, Jugement de Paris, 1685

8. Browse to: http://del.icio.us Our tag: NITLE_digital_teaching Find three resources that you can use in your professional activities and tag them. Hands-on:

9. RSS “ Really Simple Syndication” RSS Aggregators Google Bloglines Sage (for Firefox) RSS feed from del.icio.us

10. Lunch Stop and Write Come back at 1:00 PM

11. How has the web changed? Sir Tim Berners-Lee

12. Web 1.0 Examples • Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm • Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html • Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/ • Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm

14. Searching Blogs Google Blog Search Technorati

15. Multimedia Pedagogy Text Images Audio Video

16. Multimedia Pedagogy Why multimedia in the classroom? Learning styles Active engagement Changing population, literacy Long, long tradition

17. Finding Multimedia

18. Multimedia Syntheses Presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote) Media: text, images, sound, video Demonstration and Hands-On Ease of use Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf Tufte)

19. Avoid Death by PowerPoint …

20. Break Stop and Write Come back at 3 PM

22. Small Group Discussion How will you use what you’ve learned today?

23. Final Check-in Share results of discussion

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