Things To Do

Things to do with social network platforms:

Orientation and Integration

Faculty-written Intros and Overviews
Identify Topics and Themes

Activate prior knowledge
Preview ideas that will come up

(Advance organizers)

Presentation

Lecture Notes
Slide Presentations
Audio/Video Recordings

Additional Material

Supplemental
Remedial

Application

Reactions to Prompts

(Images, Video clips, Short essays/posts)

Journaling
Critical Readings
Annotations
Glossary Writing
Short Biographies
Timelines
Genealogies, Family Trees
Interviewing
Placing in Context

Discussion

Playing "Tag" (with Lists)
Student-written Summaries - Peer review

Student-written SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat)

Crowd-sourcing
Indexing (Categories, Tags)
Reputation Management

Collaborative-Learning_and_Social-Networking

Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Collaborative Learning and Social Networking

Fall 2010

Paul Younghouse

Wylie Haggerty

Talk over the agenda

Resources:

Webcampus

Discussion boards -asynchronous, branching

Chat/Virtual Classroom - synchronous, Java-based

Groups - mix of tools/resources

Weblogs - blogs

Group

CTLT Dialogues - CTLT Blog

Individual

Forest Street - Forest_Street at Blogspot

Wikis

FDU Quality Assurance

Wikispaces - Wiki

Wikidot - Zombie Economics

Google Resources - do you know what your students have access to?

Google Docs

Can upload and share MS Office documents

Word docs, Excel files, Powerpoint presentations

Google Sites

under "more" menu, toolbar at top of screen

Example: Wikkicorp

Twitter

Personal

Professional

Facebook

Personal

Professional

Evaluation:

Rubrics, Checklists, Scales

Sidebar: Life in Perpetual Beta - Financing an independent documentary via Twitter

Notes from _Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts_

Will Richardson's "Pedagogy of Blogs"
p. 26-28

1. Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning.
2. Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom.
3. Weblogs archive the learning students and teachers do, facilitating reflection.
4. As a democratic tool, Weblogs support different learning styles.
5. Use of Weblogs can facilitate the development of expertise in a particular subject.
6. Weblogs can teach new literacies that students may need in the coming information society.

Other aspects:

• evaluation
• capstone projects - semester-long, or program-long projects
  
• accreditation
• facilitate development of portfolios (digital files)
  

Ken Ronkowitz on Using Student Blogs As Reflective Practice

http://www.slideshare.net/ronko4

E-portfolios

Concepts of writings (audience, voice)

Publishing

Copyright and plagiarism

Authentic writing

Writing in a digital age

Getting Started

Create a "nom de plume" e-mail account
https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

Blogger/Blogspot
http://www.blogger.com/

WordPress
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/

CTLT Dialogues
http://ctlt.wordpress.com/

Blogging Across the Curriculum

Technorati: 203 blogs about pedagogy
http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/pedagogy

Barbara Ganley
http://bgblogging.com/

Lucy Appert's "Teaching with Blogs"
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/lga2/teachingwithblogs/

• Working with Texts: The Annotated Article Assignment

Stacy Baker's "Extreme Biology"
http://extremebiology.ning.com/

Anne Davis's "The Write Weblog"
http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/

"Wandering Ink"
http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/

"The Edge of the American West"
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/

"Strange Maps"
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

"Language Log"
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

"Critical Pedagogy Blogs" (Freire)
http://freire.mcgill.ca/content/critical-pedagogy-blogs

Getting Started

Create a "nom de plume" e-mail account
https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

Blogger/Blogspot
http://www.blogger.com/


WordPress
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/


CTLT Dialogues
http://ctlt.wordpress.com/

_Classroom Assessment Techniques_ Online

http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/assess.htm

Based on Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross's book
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Jossey-Bass, 1993


From the Web page:
What is classroom assessment?

Classroom assessment is both a teaching approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

How is classroom assessment different?

Classroom assessment differs from tests and other forms of student assessment in that it is aimed at course improvement, rather than at assigning grades. The primary goal is to better understand your students' learning and so to improve your teaching.

How do I use Classroom Assessment Techniques?

• Decide what you want to learn from a classroom assessment.
• Choose a Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT) that provides this feedback, is consistent with your teaching style, and can be easily implemented in your class.
• Explain the purpose of the activity to students, then conduct it.
• After class, review the results and decide what changes, if any, to make.
• Let your students know what you learned from the CAT and how you will use this information.

Blogging Across the Curriculum

Technorati: 203 blogs about pedagogy
http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/pedagogy

Barbara Ganley
http://bgblogging.com/

Lucy Appert's "Teaching with Blogs"
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/lga2/teachingwithblogs/

• Working with Texts: The Annotated Article Assignment
  

Stacy Baker's "Extreme Biology"
http://extremebiology.ning.com/

Anne Davis's "The Write Weblog"
http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/

"Wandering Ink"
http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/

"The Edge of the American West"
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/

"Strange Maps"
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

"Language Log"
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

"Critical Pedagogy Blogs" (Freire)
http://freire.mcgill.ca/content/critical-pedagogy-blogs

Notes from _Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts_

Will Richardson's "Pedagogy of Blogs"
p. 26-28

1. Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning.
2. Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom.
3. Weblogs archive the learning students and teachers do, facilitating reflection.
4. As a democratic tool, Weblogs support different learning styles.
5. Use of Weblogs can facilitate the development of expertise in a particular subject.
6. Weblogs can teach new literacies that students may need in the coming information society.
   

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