CIBER Conference 2011 Workshop

Welcome to the Workshop.  So let’s take a peek at a how innovative technologies can be used in our teaching.

Guiding Principles

A.  Think “student-centered” learning.  Group cooperation, problem solving, creative thinking, projects, participatory activities, content driven, multiple ways of viewing things, these will all take precedence over traditional lectures, memorization, repetition, right and wrong answers, and discrete points.

B.  Look at how people use technology in everyday life and imitate a mini version of the same for teaching purposes.  This includes:  social media, texting, mobile devices, video conferencing, downloads, tweets, face book, youtube, etc.

C.  Easy to use, Robust in flexibility, Free of charge,

Examples

1.  Blogs – In fact, look at this one.  Pages, Posts, Links, Student Contributions, PDF, Movies, DOCS.  Items can be used by multiple groups, over time, and reused over and over again.

2.  Student polls – There are new ways to get student feedback.  From twitter feeds to face book groups, there are tons of ways to involve people.

Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com The free version is limited, but it still works for small polls.  Answers can be submitted by any web-enables device (computer, cell phones, etc).

Doodle http://www.doodle.com Everyone uses doodle to make appointments, but how about using it to create a poll.

http://www.doodle.com/6ruwc2vwnndrgnyd

3.  Original Student Photos and Videos (and student analysis of same)

Orlando’s youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/orlandocourses

LESCANT Photo database: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/lescant/

Orlando’s Posterous: longhornorlando@posterous.com,

http://longhornorlando.posterous.com

4.  There’s an app for that.

China Daily, Converter, Currency, CultureGPS, Dictionary, Dropbox, EU, Evernote, Facebook, Google Translate, Google Goggle, Google Earth, NYTimes, Pleco, Posterous, Twitter, The Weather Channel, WordRef,

5.  Cool ideas that are out there.

Deb Roy’s “Birth of a word” from TED:  Ideas worth spreading.

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

homepage: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/

Salman Khan’s “Let’s use video to reinvent education” also from TED.

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

Khan Academy homepage: http://www.khanacademy.org/

Richard Baraniuk’s  ”Open Access, Open Education” from COERLL

http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll_media/talks/baraniuk_r_2008-10.mp4

Homepage: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~richb/