This document discusses tools for community, collaboration, and creation in online learning. It describes how community is no longer restricted by location and how connections can last through social media. Collaboration tools mentioned include Google Docs for real-time editing and Hangouts for screen sharing. Content creation tools include using mobile devices, video editing, and photo sharing apps. For practice, it recommends dynamic simulations, practice problems, and quizzes. Presentation tools highlighted are Google Slides, Prezi, and Haiku Deck. The document advocates reimagining assignments to incorporate these tools and focus on the 3 C's of community, collaboration, and creation.

1. “Choosing Media and
Online Tools”
Theme: Course Technology

2. Community, Collaboration,
Creation
3 C’s of Today’s Students
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3. Community, Collaboration, Creation

4. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Community
• Not restricted to current connections
• Past, current, and future potentials
• Not confined to a zip code
• Classmates, family, employer, interests, views
• Global perspective
• Important aspect of PLU

5. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• PLUTO Community as Example
• Shared experience
• People around you and facilitators
• Potential for lifelong connections (sounds cheesy)
• How will continue this connection?
• Drop by someone’s office?
• Email them afterwards?
• Connect via LinkedIn?
• Connect via Facebook?
• Follow them on Twitter?
• Point
• No connection needs to fade away
• Everyone you’ve ever known is one
click away

6. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Collaboration
• Version control is no longer an everyday occurrence
• Email attachments were the previous norm
• Transition to living documents
• Office 365/Online
• Google Apps
• Editing across devices
• Minimal hardware and
software requirements
• Free tools

7. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Collaboration
• Not restricted by location
• In person
• Online
• Skype
• Google Hangouts
• When are you available?

8. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Creation
• Their creation devices
• Webcams, video cameras, still cameras

9. Community, Collaboration, Creation
• Creation
• Their creation apps
• Instagram, Twitter, iMovie, YouTube, Keynote, Pages, Wordpress,

10. Community, Collaboration, Creation
Key Question:
How can we incorporate these skills into the classroom?
• Community
• Build a community within your course
• Encourage relationship-building activities into instruction
• Collaboration
• Emphasis on group work
• Real world challenges
• Creation
• Require original work, artifact creation
• Encourage portfolios of work

11. Approaches to Technology
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12. Approaches to Technology Integration
Choose the Technology Identify Desired Outcome
• Explore endless tools
• Focus on technology,
not pedagogy
• “A solution in search
of a problem”
Backward Design
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Content creation
• Presentation
• Student practice
• Pedagogy constant
• Future-proof with
technology changes

13. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

14. In the best blends, the technology:
• gets out of the way of learning
• enables
• supports
Select the Blend

15. Communication Tools
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16. Communication Tools: Skype

17. Communication Tools: Google Hangouts

18. Communication Tools: Apple FaceTime

19. Collaboration Tools
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20. Google Docs/Drive
• File sharing
• Collaborative editing
• Commenting

21. Google Hangouts
• Collaborative document creation
• Screen sharing

22. Blogs
• Journaling
• Digital portfolio

23. Wikis
• Collaborative page generation

24. Desired Outcomes

25. Content Creation Tools
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26. Content Creation Tools: Mobile Device

27. Content Creation Tools: Video Editing

28. Content Creation Tools: Photos Sharing

29. Content Creation Tools: Photos Posters

30. Content Creation Tools: Voice Recording

31. Practice Tools
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32. Student Practice Tools
• Dynamic Content and Simulations
• Practice Problems & Worked Examples
• Practice Quizzes
• Drill and Practice Tools

33. Dynamic Content & Simulations
• Khan Academy
• https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

34. Practice Problems & Worked Examples
• Six sigma data visualization training

35. Practice Quizzes
• Textbook & Online Resources
• http://www.wiley.
com/legacy/college/bio/tortora366927/resources/student/anatomydril
l/ch1.html
• http://ect.downstate.
edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u6/quiztop6.htm
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36. Drill and Practice
• iMuscle App

37. Presentation Tools
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38. Presentation Tools: Google Presentations

39. Presentation Tools: Prezi

40. Presentation Tools: Haiku Deck

41. Activity:
Reimagining an Assignment
10 Minutes
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42. Activity: Reimagining an Assignment
• Task
• Design the perfect blended assignment incorporating
resources, multimedia, and tools.
• Focus on community, collaboration, creation
• Teams
• Sorted by table
• Tools
• Sticky posters
• Post-its
• Sharpies
• Timing
• Creating = 7 Min
• Reporting = 3 Min

43. Next Steps

44. Next Steps
• Download a free trial
• Check out a screencasting kit from iTech
• Schedule a consultation