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PLUTO Institute: Choosing Media and Online Tools
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.
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- 1. “Choosing Media and OnlineTools” Theme: Course Technology
- 2. Community, Collaboration, Creation 3 C’sof Today’s Students SS
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- 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 KeyQuestion: 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
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- 12. Approaches to TechnologyIntegration 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
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- 14. In the bestblends, the technology: • gets out of the way of learning • enables • supports Select the Blend
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- 17. Communication Tools: GoogleHangouts
- 18. Communication Tools: AppleFaceTime
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- 20. Google Docs/Drive • Filesharing • Collaborative editing • Commenting
- 21. Google Hangouts • Collaborativedocument creation • Screen sharing
- 22. Blogs • Journaling • Digitalportfolio
- 23. Wikis • Collaborative pagegeneration
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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
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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 •
- 36. Drill and Practice •iMuscle App
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- 38. Presentation Tools: GooglePresentations
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- 41. Activity: Reimagining an Assignment 10Minutes LN
- 42. Activity: Reimagining anAssignment • 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
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- 44. Next Steps • Downloada free trial • Check out a screencasting kit from iTech • Schedule a consultation