2009 Teaching with Technology Institute
Date: June 9, 2009
Location: Altegeld 100
Timeslot Reserved: 8:00am - 4:30pm
Theme: "Collaborative Learning"
Proposed Schedule:
8:00am Check-in
8:30am Collaborating Through Communication (Olga)
10:00am Break
10:30am Collaborating Through Media (Jason)
1:00pm Collaborating Through Writing (Stephanie)
2:30pm Break
3:00pm Collaborating Through Mobile Devices (Dan)
*No lunch provided / No snacks
Brainstorming Possible Technologies:
- Mobile learning technologies
- Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) / gaming
- Microblogging
- Social networking
- Digital imaging
- Screencasting?
- Mashups
- Student-generated media
- Student-created learning technologies (YouTube, Flickr, etc.)
- Collaborative learning technologies (Google Docs)
- eBooks?
- Apps on mobile devices
- Alternatives to f2f
- Freebies for education - Stephanie's idea for a future workshop
- "Going Paperless" - Stephanie's idea for a future workshop
- Widgets / gadgets / games / puzzles
- others? Keep adding any other ideas...
*Could possible have a central theme for the day: "Collaborative Learning"
Brainstorming Possible Session Ideas & Hands-on Activities within Collaboration Main Theme:
- Collaborating thru Communication [Olga / Jason]
- Facebook
- Bb Sync
- Fan FacDev Facebook page
- Ning
- LinkedIn
- Skype
- Olga calls FacDev staff in office (use new laptop with webcam) - 1 to 1
- Conference call
- Create su accounts and have participants call one another
- IM (Meebo)
- ooVoo
- Olga calls several FacDev staff for conference video call (up to 5)
- Twitter
- Create an account
- Follow someone
- Post message
- Twitter search (live search)
- Hashtags
- Collaborating thru Media [Jason]
- Flickr / Picasa
- Sample accounts / upload pictures & tag
- YouTube
- Sample accounts / upload video
- Embed video clip into Bb
- Prezi (present w/Prezi)
- Share with Prezi
- Edit a shared presentation
- Mashups
- Geotag on Flick to create map
- Create custom Google Map
- SlideShare
- Searching for presentations and embedding
- Uploading (how-to)
- SlideCasting
- Google Earth
- Collaborating thru Writing [Stephanie]
- Google Docs
- Collaborate on a document
- Could setup a Google Account or use training accounts
- Google Sites
- Could have workshop site that they could collaborate
- Blogs
- Wikis
- How do wikis vary from Google Sites or Google Docs?
- Track changes (Word)
- Could add track changes to a document
- Description:
- Collaborating through
Writing (Google Docs, Google Sites, wikis, blogs, Microsoft Office)
- This session will focus on various tools that support a
collaborative writing process. Tools like Google Docs, Google Sites, and wikis
allow multiple authors to collaborate on a single web-based document, without
transferring files back and forth. Blogs can facilitate discussion among
collaborators, and Microsoft Office has built-in tools that can simplify the
writing process. In this session, you will have the opportunity to work with
several of these tools.
- Collaborating thru Mobile Devices [Dan / Stephanie?]
- Twitter
- Apps on Mobile Devices
- Search for Apps in iTunes
- Bb App
- SMS/MMS
- If devices provided, send SMS/MMS
- Podcasting
- Search for podcasts
- Post a podcast episode to Blackboard
-
SlideShare Mobile?
-
Netbooks
-
Kindle
*Check with vendors to get sample devices: [Apple (iPhone / iPod Touch; Verizon (Blackberry); T-Mobile (G1); ]
**Get cable/connector necessary to display iPod Touch
**By April 1st, have descriptions written and sent to Olga
**Request guest student logins so that they can login in AL100