Handout for my Teaching Outside the "Box" invited presentation for the professional development event "going beyond google" at Monroe Community College by the division of science, health, and business on January 21, 2010. http://prezi.com/cjmoerciiegp/ Step out of the CMS box with me for a presentation on how freely available web2.0 tools such as twitter are used in my online course and could be used to enhance instruction in general. Tools will be demonstrated, uses will be discussed, and examples shown. Online social networking, social computing, folksonomy/ social/ collaborative tagging, data mashups, ubiquitous broadband, wireless, hand-held and mobile computing, mobile broadband, and the cultural shift from passive consumers of content to engaged user-generators of content, have brought about a grassroots revolution: we have experienced a global democratization of access to tools, information, experts, content, professional development, and education as evinced by the open courseware and open source software initiatives that have changed how education is delivered, conducted, and defined. It is important for those of us in the field of online education, as responsible netizens and educators in this moment, to participate, to evaluate, to document, and to expose our students to and engage them in this process. Effective online pedagogical/andragogical practices require that we use the online medium to achieve specific learning objectives and leverage the options and limitations of the online teaching and learning environment to make teaching and learning better, faster, safer, easier, and cheaper. It is not about immigrants vs. natives; it is about enhancing instruction with appropriate technologies that promote student engagement, interaction, and learning. I incorporated these various web2.0 tools into the course for various reasons, but primarily to open the course boundaries beyond the CMS box to provide students with authentic social learning experiences. I also wanted student access to content they created and contributed to the class to persist beyond the end of the term. I will share with participants the lessons learned as I experimented with ways to enhance online instruction. Student survey results and comments will be presented.

1. Alexandra M. Pickett
Associate Director . SUNY Learning Network . State University Plaza . Albany, NY 12246 . T: 1.518.443.5622 F: 1.518.443.5167
alexandra.pickett@suny.edu . http://sln.suny.edu
teaching outside the “box”
http://slideshare.net/alexandrapickett . http://prezi.com/cjmoerciiegp/ . http://voicethread.com/share/524903/
Examples from my online course
http://etap687.edublogs.org – professor and student blogs for ETAP687. http://etap687.edublogs.org/category/cooltools/ - list of cooltools.
http://www.screencast.com/t/MOLSgi8Y - tour of ETAP687 (example of jing screencast).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtxAkPP1xM – ETAP687 welcome.
http://voicethread.com/share/450225/ & http://voicethread.com/share/38310/ – ice-breaking activities for ETAP687.
http://twitter.com/ETAP687 - ETAP687 text course announcements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRqYDEfKIs & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrmCuNX2bg - video course announcements.
http://video.seesmic.com/videos/zoJ4Uxx9JO - ETAP687 video course announcement.
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/ETAP687 - shared references for ETAP687.
http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main & http://tinyurl.com/knqap9 - ETAP687 playlist of podcasted audio student feedback.
http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/build-it-activity-feedback-from-modules-1-2/ - pod- and screen-casted student feedback.
http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main - feedback
http://www.screencast.com/t/whCXu3oj4b - feedback.
http://www.screencast.com/t/gvb43kilynw - response to question and how to instructions.
http://www.screencast.com/t/P8rpgTNt1O - clarification.
http://www.screencast.com/t/hhrJp3h2 - instructions.
http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/reflections-blog-post-grading-rubric/ - blog grading rubric.
http://tinyurl.com/5l83or - exemplar courses for observation (faculty podcasts) for students in ETAP687.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1106177&page=1 – my ratings for summer 2008.
http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/08/26/i-teach-like-a-girl/ - student comments/quotes about course.
Join my networks!
1. http://www.twitter.com/alexpickett
2. http://www.slideshare.net/alexandrapickett/slideshows
3. http://www.youtube.com/user/alexandrapickett
4. http://video.seesmic.com/alexandrapickett
5. http://www.diigo.com/profile/alexandrapickett & http://del.icio.us/alexandrapickett/
6. http://www.screencast.com/users/alexandrapickett
7. http://twitter.com/slnsolsummit & http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org/
8. http://flickr.com/photos/alexandrapickett
9. http://friendfeed.com/alexandrapickett & http://facebook.com/alexandrapickett
10. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrapickett
11. Alejandra Subagja in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Learning%20Network/128/128/0
12. Skype: alexandrapickett
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2. Cooltools
Edublogs – http://edublogs.org - free blogs for educators (wordpress).
Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/ - collaborative, multimedia slide show.
Diigo – http://diigo.com - social bookmarking.
Twitter – http://twitter.com - microblog.
Gcast – http://www.gcast.com - podcasting.
Rockyou - http://www.rockyou.com– example animation made with Rockyou - http://etap687.edublogs.org/secondlife-if-my-avatar-could-talk/
Animoto - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP40bLdmJ_4 - example slide animation created w/animoto - http://animoto.com/projects
Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ - word clouds.
Prezi – http://prezi.com/ - zooming prezo editor alternative to powerpoint.
SLN teaching presence survey - http://sln.suny.edu/teachingsurvey - improve your online course!
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - record and edit sound.
Skype - http://about.skype.com/ - voice/video/chat/file share.
Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/ - screen capture.
Seesmic - http://video.seesmic.com/ - online video blog/video threaded asynchronous discussion.
The flip - http://www.theflip.com/ - video camera.
Youtube quick capture - http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_quick_capture - capture video directly into youtube.
Polldaddy - http://www.polldaddy.com/ - online polls.
Mogulus - http://www.mogulus.com/ - watch, produce, record live web broadcast.
Ustream - http://www.ustream.tv/ - web broadcast.
Facebook groups and pages - http://whyfacebook.com/2008/11/25/facebook-groups-vs-facebook-pages-which-is-best/ - social network.
Flickr groups - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ - group foto sharing.
Drop.io - http://drop.io/about - online collaboration and file sharing.
Meebo/meebome - http://www.meebo.com/ - web page chat.
Mindmeister - http://www.mindmeister.com/ - online mind mapping.
Moodle - http://moodle.org/ - open source learning management system.
Rate my Professor - http://www.ratemyprofessors.com - Prof. rating directory.
Second Life - https://join.secondlife.com & http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php - 3D user-created virtual world.
Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ - photo sharing.
Slideshare - http://slideshare.net/ - slide and document sharing.
Web 2.0 web applications index - www.go2web20.net - web 2.0 directory.
Map of the world 2.0 - http://www.appappeal.com/web-2-0-application-world-mosaic/ - web 2.0 directory.
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/SUNYlearningnetwork
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=10135682177CBD2D - PSWC Competencies for Online Teaching Success (COTS).
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2B2D95F792BD3802 - PSWC Strategies for Managing the Online Workload.
A Vision on Students Today - http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Did you know? http://youtube.com/watch?v=rjKBsfk_O8c
The Machine is Us/ing Us - http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Blogs
1. http:etap687.edublogs.org – my personal blog/course blog.
2. http://slneducation.edublogs.org/ - my work blog.
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