The document discusses how an art history professor successfully taught an online course on 20th century design by incorporating curriculum development, online construction methods like hyperlinks, audio/video, and surveys to evaluate student work, and found that technology allowed for more student interaction and engagement than traditional face-to-face classes while still maintaining his presence as the teacher. Some student reactions were initially negative due to technical issues but overall the class was inspiring and students wished it was longer, showing that the professor's personality was not lost online through his implementation of technology.

1. When You Teach Your
Presence, Technology
is Your Friend
Sean Nixon
Real World Classroom
Hope Windle
SUNY Ulster Instructional Design

2. Agenda
• Curriculum development
• Online construction
• Running and summation of an online course.
We will address:
• obstacles, disappointments, challenges,
• revelations,
• student expectations and reactions to technology.
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3. Inception of the project
Wanted the interaction of the classroom
The effervescence of the teacher’s presence
My presence was vital to learning to occur

4. Will my personality
be lost online?

5. 20th Century
Design
curriculum development Evaluative Measures
History 15-Scrapbook &Discussion = 35
Prof S. Nixon 5-Quizzes(1)=5
Fall ‘09 1-Presentation – Arts & Crafts (1) = 10
1 -Presentation – Bauhaus(2) = 10
ART (politics, meaning, aesthetic, vision) 1-Presentation -World Fair (3) = 10
1-Presentation –50-60-70 (4) = 10
+ TECH (form) 1-On location project Final = 25
+ COMMERCE (function in society and for the person)
Overall Student To do’s: Online Activities:
Link Browsing,
- ART (politics, meaning, aesthetic, vision)
+ TECH (form) Google Earth,
+ COMMERCE (function in society and for the Weekly Activities Video, Audio,
person) 9-12 hrs RSS feeds
-Examine how design is used to improve human 1 hours-Reading
condition 2 hours-Watch Clips & audio
-Human Presence in craft of Design, how humans Links:
factor in Weekly Scrap Book WIKI Museum sites:
-Nostalgia of craft> improve human condition 1 hour- -Collect & Post Images MOMA, Tate
-Look at Links Google Earth
-Develop appreciation for design
-Look around the environment, and see the history 2 hour-
of what they look at Discussion/Activity &/or
- Apply analytic skills to everyday design Voice thread
environment
-Place within historic context their present 1 hour:
environment Visual quiz- describe this
-Exposed to wide range of design that is detail historically,
interconnected aesthetically
-- Graphic Designers to recognize design regardless
of dimension
-- Interconnectedness of Design throughout all
mediums

6. 20th Century ART (politics, meaning, aesthetic, vision)
Design + TECH (form)
History + COMMERCE (function in society and for the person)
4. 5. 6. 7. Bauhaus & Design 8. Holistic approach to
Film, Propaganda, H Photography versus Education, Pre WWII 1920- Design, Print, Architecture
Typography, New 1933 1920-1950
Role in Visual istory/Documentary Painting, Fine Arts
Communication , again Time & 1930 Bauhaus Modernism
-Gropius Photo Montage
1920 Space 1926 -Corbusier Falling Water
Moholy Nagy -Meis
Cubism Technology of photography -Marcel Beuer
Battleship Potemkin - Public Housing
Constructivist Typography “People’s Language”
Narrative Editing
Type
How view info
Bauhaus
Metropolis
Swiss Style
Presentation –
Bauhaus(2)
Art:
Futurist>
Art:
Constructivist Art:
Politcal Propaganda Art:
Propaganda Socialist
Art: Anti-Establishment Group Think
Type as Visual Language Commercial Design/Art Houses as machines
Intro to graphic design Hygiene for all
Tech:
Editing as story POV, Tech:
Tech: Tech:
Time + Space Photography enamored by Tech:
San-serif got rid of -Welding
technology Manufacturing of the parts
embellishments, machine like -Glass
generic for all -Metal -Tubular steel plywood, poured
Comm:
-Photography concrete
Govt. Commissioned by
Bolshevik Govt -Typography
Comm:
tool used by Govt as Mass Comm:
Mass Production
Comm: Media Tool Comm: Mass produce housing; pre-fab
Moveable type, mass reach Advertising is the Commerce parts.
Discussion/Activity: Discussion/Activity:
Discussion/Activity: Discussion/Activity: Design consciousness;
Discussion/Activity:
Design consciousness;
Design consciousness; Design consciousness; Designer scissors Design consciousness;
Designer scissors
Designer scissors Designer scissors Simple question Designer scissors
Simple question
Simple question Simple question Photograph & draw house Simple question
Photograph & draw house
Photograph & draw house Photograph & draw house Photograph & draw house

7. online construction

11. taped conversations, lectures
Hyperlink

15. Hyperlink

16. Link to lecture audio clip Week 7
Clip 1
Clip 2
Clip 3
Clip 4
Clip 5

18. Run video from week 11

21. Run video from week 13 weeds

22. surveys

28. video, websites

29. Student interaction

35. Obstacles, student expectations
and reactions to technology
 3rd semester students
 3 out of 15 withdraw for time management reasons
 Tech related, Disappointed with totally online
 Didn’t like ANGEL, Wanted some face to face time
 Didn’t like posting
 Attachments didn’t attach
 Server went down
 Text didn’t look right in Powerpoints

36. Revelations
 Hardest and most interesting class they ever took
 Inspired them to be a part of their profession
 Wanted the course to be a year long.
 Liked the volume of information gathered
 Liked to see what each other posted
 Interact with each other so much, don’t have that in face to face class
 Liked the scavenger hunts
 Liked the difference in having male and female voices
 Never met so many students who wanted to learn

37. More and more each day, I find myself studying
items closer and trying to make a connection to a
specific time in history.
This class and the visit to Hudson exposed me to
designs from the seventeenth to the twentieth
centuries. It is important to recognize the way
different countries and cultures adopted ideas and
techniques to develop modern designs in the past
and in the present.

38. Overall, I am extremely glad that Professor Nixon assigned us
to travel out there. I had a really memorable time and I think that
I took a lot out of the experience. And it ultimately made me more
of a complete person.
At first, I was unhappy that I had to travel so far out of my way,
But in the end, I thank Professor Nixon because I wouldn’t have
Ever travelled out that way if not for his instructions.

39. Made the activities
relevant
In years that I
taught face to face
this course. Deep
down I always
desired that the
students would
share my
excitement about
this subject and to
my surprise I got
that in the online
course.
I had been over-
compensating for
myself
My presence had
been overdone in
the room

40. All ways in which technology enhanced
the vital flow of information
When taught 20th century art face to face
I shifted responsibility / onus to be on the student
Through spontaneous scavenger hunts and spontaneous
Presentations discussion and
In computer lab with 20 machines
Online but all together.
Had the lecture, youtubes and links open a few days before coming into the room
So they knew what you were going to talk about
It was a different discussion because they weren’t taken by surprise
Lecture notes were always available.
Posted before meeting again
Review their posts
In the past, So frustrating to have a face to face class and
Have to generate face to face discussion constantly