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Technology in Teaching
| Subject | Links | Description | |
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| General | Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? | The author explores the use of mobile technologies in learning and also the benefits and challenges. | |
| Emerging Technologies for learning | This article looks at teaching with technology and some of the technologies that can be used. | ||
| Digital Immigrant Remedial Vocabulary | This is a great site for the “digital immigrant” to learn about some of the popular technologies in the terms used by the “digital natives.” | ||
| Web 2.0 Technologies:
Enhancing Instruction,
Promoting Collaboration, Changing Institutional Practice |
This is a PowerPoint presentation that discusses and explains some of the Web 2.0 technology. It also includes links to resources. | ||
| Tips for Using Common Technology Tools in Teaching | This site contains some practical guidelines for using technology in teaching. They can help one manage technology-supported teaching more effectively, avoiding some of the common pitfalls. | ||
| Blogs | 7 Things You Should Know About Blogs | A blog - shorthand for "Web log" - is an online collection of personal commentary and links. Blogs can be viewed as online journals to which others can respond that are as simple to use as e-mail. Faculty are using blogs to express their opinions, promote dialogue in their disciplines, and support teaching and learning; students increasingly use blogs for personal expression and to meet course requirements. | |
| What’s a Blog? | This site explains what a blog is, how to use it, and also how to create one. | ||
| Blogs | This site, from Central Florida, explains about blogs and provides some free links where blogs can be created. | ||
| Course Management Systems | Course Management Systems | This is Carnegie Mellon’s page on Blackboard, and contains Teaching with Blackboard and Blackboard How To. | |
| Faculty WebCT Reference Guide | Designed for faculty at U Albany, this site provides guidelines for teaching with WebCt. | ||
| Enhance Large Classes with WebCT | This is a short article that explains how one professor uses WEbCT in a large class. | ||
| Tools in Vista that Lend Themselves to Teaching Large Classes | There are many tools in Vista that facilitate communication, document exchange and assessments. Here there are three tables will give a quick account of each. | ||
| Personal Response Systems (Clickers) | 7 Things You Should Know About Clickers | Clickers, along with well-designed questions, provide an easy-to-implement mechanism for enhancing two important learning principles - interaction and engagement | |
| PRS | This UMass site contains a tutorial regarding personal response systems (clickers) and some downloadable documents about using them in class. | ||
| Teaching with Clickers | This site contains some information about using clickers and also an 11 minute video about using clickers. | ||
| Classroom Response System Bibliography | This site, from Vanderbilt, offers many links to articles and books on “clickers” as well as articles for discipline-specific audiences. | ||
| Personal Response Systems ("Clickers") Resource List | This site from the Teaching & Learning Center at UNLV has links to a number of other resources on student response systems. | ||
| Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach | This article from EDUCAUSE explores the use of clickers in the classroom. Although learning outcomes are higher when using clickers, the question is whether the clickers or the active learning pedagogies are the cause. This author compares the use of clickers with the use of class discussion. | ||
| Successful Clicker Standardization | Standardizing on a single clicker system enhances pedagogical support while reducing logistical support issues and student costs. This article from EDUCAUSE explores the issue. | ||
| Classroom Response | This publication from Carnegie Mellon discusses how to use Personal Response Systems in the classroom. | ||
| Clickers | This is a flyer from Carnegie Mellon regarding the use of clickers in the classroom. | ||
| Podcasts | 7 Things You Should Know About Podcasting | "Podcasting" refers to any software/hardware combination that permits automatic downloading of audio files to an MP3 player for listening at the user's convenience. Podcasting allows learning to become more portable and gives educators another way to meet today's students where they live and learn - online and on audio players. | |
| The Making of a Podcast (Part 1) | This is the first part of an article on how to make a successful podcast. The steps include making an MP3 file and uploading it onto a Web server. | ||
| The Making of a Podcast (Part 2) | This is the second part of an article on how to make a successful podcast. This one includes instructions for making a feed and advertising the podcast. | ||
| There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting | This document addresses how podcasts can enhance the teaching process. | ||
| Podcasting and Vodcasting | This paper describes podcasting and vodcasting and explores some implications of their use in education at the University of Missouri. | ||
| This article discusses ways in which podcasting can contribute to the learning process. | |||
| The author of this document suggests that podcasting will be the wave of the future with increased usage. | |||
| An MP3 a Day Keeps the Worries Away | This paper describes, with reference to relevant literature, the rationale and design of a pilot study involving an investigation into the application of podcasting to address these issues and foster “good practice in practice” in university teaching and learning with first year information technology undergraduates. | ||
| Podcasts, Part of Higher-Tech Education | This is an interview from All Things Considered regarding the use of podcasts in higher education. | ||
| Resources for Educational Podcasting | This is an excellent resource that contains links to a number of articles about podcasting, such as Podcasting Starter Kit, Create Your Own Podcast, as well as links to products (some free) to help you do so. | ||
| Podcasting | This is a rich resource from Central Florida that tells you how to use mp3 compression to make audio files small enough to be broadcast, downloaded, or emailed around the Internet. It offers possibilities for disseminating lectures or even essay feedback, with a simple guide and links to free resources. | ||
| Podcasting | This publication from Carnegie Mellon explores educational podcasting in the creation and distribution of lecture archives for review, the delivery of supplemental educational materials and assignments requiring students to produce and submit their own podcasts. | ||
| Podcasting | This site explains what podcasting is and provides some ways to use podcasting in the educational environment. It also provides links to some examples of how people are using podcasts. | ||
| Meeting the Millennial Halfway: Expanding Teaching and Learning with Pod- and Vodcasting | Panelists discuss how audio and video podcasting provides students with increased control over when, where, and how they learn; facilitates deeper learning; and affords students access to subject matter experts and virtual field experiences that would be difficult or impossible to arrange in a face-to-face setting. | ||
| The Promise of Podcasting | Manning and colleagues provide an overview of some instructional applications in which podcasting might prove particularly appropriate—for example, as a "listening tool" in disciplines as diverse as language learning, speech/language/hearing pathology, music, etc.; and as "connecting commentary" contextualizing course content in discussions of current events or emerging research in the field, etc. (pp. 3-4). Throughout Manning is attentive to both the strengths of the medium (e.g., the "value of voice") and its weaknesses (and the challenges of generating and distributing podcasts). |
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| PowerPoint | Using PowerPoint | This site contains links to a number of tutorials about PowerPoint as well as commentaries about PowerPoint. | |
| PowerPoint: Possibilities and Problems | This article discusses the literature on PowerPoint and also how to use it effectively. | ||
| Microsoft PowerPoint Basics | This site has four lessons on using Powerpoint including, introduction, formatting, working with graphics, and basic operations. | ||
| PowerPoint | Here you can find information that you may find useful in helping you explore ways to effectively use PowerPoint to help students reach the learning objectives for your course. | ||
| PowerPoint is Not Evil | Imagine a learning technology that: is insensitive to individual students' backgrounds, interests, and prior knowledge, does nothing to tell you about whether or not your students are "getting it." presents material in a strictly linear fashion, and encourages students to passively absorb information. | ||
| Simulations/Virtual Worlds | 7 Things You Should Know About Virtual Worlds | Virtual worlds are immersive online environments whose "residents" are avatars representing individuals who participate via the Internet. Many institutions are experimenting with virtual worlds for educational purposes. They may foster constructivist learning by placing students in a context that challenges them to learn without explicit learning objectives and assessment | |
| Simulations: Are They Games? | Marc Prensky explores the use of simulations. | ||
| Improving Learning with Technology-Enhanced Simulations | This is a podcast in which panelists discuss how simulations enable students to gain and use task-related knowledge in authentic contexts, manipulate artifacts, and explore realistic environments. | ||
| Interactive Pretending: An Overview of Simulation | Marc Prensky explains what simulations are and how they can be used for instruction. | ||
| “Modding” – The Newest Authoring Tool | This article by Marc Prensky suggests that “modding” or modifying off-the-shelf computer games. These games allow players to change the look, feel and action of their games. Prensky suggest that instructors can use this technique to draw the interest of students in ways the current authoring tools don’t. | ||
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Marc Prensky addresses how computer-simulation technology is a way for students to approach learning in a new way. | ||
| Social Impact Games | This site includes links to educational “games” that can be used in instruction. Some involve a fee. | ||
| Social Networking | 7 Things You Should Know About Facebook | This is EDUCAUSE’s first publication about Facebook. | |
| 7 Things You Should Know About Facebook II | This is second of the EDUCAUSE publications which explains Facebook and how it is used. | ||
| Videos | AuthorPoint Lite | Instructors can make videos of their PowerPoint presentations, including their own voiceover, and then deliver them to students via Webcourses or another website. In addition to PowerPoint, you'll need to download free software called AuthorPoint Lite. A 'full version' of AuthorPoint, which is not free, would offer the ability to add webcam video and create chapter points in the video. | |
| 7 Things You Should Know About Screencasting | A screencast is a video recording of the actions on a user's computer screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. Screencasts can be thought of as video podcasts. They provide a simple means to extend rich course content to anyone who might benefit from the material but cannot attend a presentation. | ||
| Lecture Webcasting | The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of lecture webcasting, and to summarize findings from several formal evaluations of the technology. We focus on questions of attendance, learning outcomes, student behavior with regard to access of archived webcasts, and effects on instructor behavior and quality of teaching. | ||
| In this podcast, panelists will discuss lessons learned in creating online learning materials with Macromedia Breeze Presenter, such as how to add interactivity, select appropriate teaching strategies, consider software and hardware options, and combine media in a presentation. | |||
| Wikis | 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis | Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access. They support asynchronous communication and group collaboration online. Wikis are also being used as e-portfolios, highlighting their utility as a tool for collection and reflection | |
| What is a Wiki? | This site explains what wikis are and also offers links to other information. | ||
| Wikis | This site explains ways one can use wikis in courses and also provides a free website for using one. | ||
| Others | What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? Almost Anything! | This article from Marc Prensky explores how cell phones can be used in the educational process. | |
| 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking | Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one normally makes in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords. The resulting community-driven, keyword-based classifications, known as "folksonomies," may change how we store and find information online. | ||
| 7 Things You Should Know About Instant Messaging | Instant messaging (IM) is a form of online communication that allows real-time interaction through computers or mobile devices. It has become such an integral part of students' lives that many colleges and universities are working to move IM beyond the social sphere into teaching and learning. | ||
| How Instant Messaging Works | This site explains instant messaging and how it works. | ||
| 7 Things You Should Know About Google Jockeying | A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, Web sites, or resources mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic. The jockey's searches are displayed simultaneously with the presentation, helping to clarify the main topic and extend learning opportunities. | ||
| 7 Things You Should Know About Mapping Mashups | Mapping mashups use online mapping services, such as those offered by Google or Yahoo, to display customized, clickable markers showing points of interest and related information. In the classroom, they can place lessons in a rich geographical context and increase interactivity. They can be useful for spatial display of research data or for enhancing information on campus Web sites. | ||
| 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter | This site provides the basics of Twitter and suggestions for how it can be used in the classroom. | ||
| 7 Things You Should Know About Skype | This is a publication of EDUCAUSE that describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. This is a quick overview of Skype.. | ||
| How To Make an RSS/XML Audio Feed | This is a brief tutorial about how to create an RSS feed for syndicating podcasts. |
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