New Tools For Teaching

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New Tools For Teaching
Andrew L. Wright, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of
CIS andrew.wright_at_louisville.edu louisville.edu/f
aculty/alwrig01
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Agenda

• SafeAssign Plagiarism Prevention
• Overview
• Using SafeAssign
• Tegrity
• Overview
• Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity
• Using Tegrity
• Blogs and Wikis
• Conclusions

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Overview of SafeAssign
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What is

• SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service
  integrated with the Blackboard Learning System
• It is delivered by Blackboard at no additional
  cost to the institution
• It uses a unique originality detection algorithm
  to run a comparison of submitted papers across a
  large collection of databases

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What does check?

• SafeAssign compares submitted papers to
• Internet
• Index of billions of documents available to
  public
• ProQuest ABI/Inform database
• Millions of current articles, updated weekly,
  many with full-text
• Institutional Database
• Papers submitted by users from UofL
• Global Reference Database
• Papers that were volunteered by students at other
  institutions

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Sample Report
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Plagiarism Prevention
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SafeAssign is not Enough

• SafeAssign cannot replace faculty judgment
• SA report does not prove that student plagiarized
  work
• SA wont detect all forms of plagiarism
• But SafeAssign can be used for creating teaching
  opportunities

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Catalog Statement

• From current Undergraduate Catalog
• Plagiarism defined as "representing the words or
  ideas of someone else as ones own in any
  academic exercise
• Plagiarism Prevention Instructors may use a
  range of strategies (including plagiarism-preventi
  on software at the university) to compare student
  works with private and public information
  resources in order to identify possible
  plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Comparisons
  of student works may require submitting a copy of
  the original work to the plagiarism-prevention
  service. The service may retain that copy in some
  circumstances.  Academic units or programs may
  establish a more rigorous standard of review or
  consent, which will be noted in the relevant
  guidelines.

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Preventing Plagiarism through Pedagogy

• Syllabus
• Assignment Design
• Teaching process-based view of writing
• Teaching research skills

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Teaching Using Process-Based View of Research
and Writing

• Conducting preliminary research/reading
• Selecting a topic
• Preparing a working bibliography
• Drafting research questions
• Developing a working thesis (or hypothesis)
• Creating an outline
• Writing the first draft
• Revising, editing, and proofreading
• Producing the final draft
• Writing a reflection of the process

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Using SafeAssign
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Modes of Use

• SafeAssign may be used in two primary ways
• Creating SafeAssignments
• Like a regular Assignment in Blackboard that
  routes student submissions through plagiarism
  service
• In normal mode, papers added to Institutional
  Database automatically with student opt-in for
  Global Reference Database
• In draft mode, performs text matching but paper
  isnt retained in any database
• Direct Submit
• Faculty may directly upload papers
• May add to Institutional Database but not to
  Global Reference Database

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Supported Document Types

• SafeAssign supports several types of document
• .doc Word 97-2003 (but not new .docx)
• .pdf Adobe PDF
• .rtf Rich Text Format
• .txt Plain Text
• .html Web Page

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Demonstration

• Easier to show in actual system

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Resources

• Delphi is building resources for
  SafeAssignhttp//delphi.louisville.edu/help/safe
  assign/
• Includes
• Overview documents for students and faculty
• Step-by-Step directions for creating a
  SafeAssignment
• Step-by-Step directions for using Direct Submit
• Offers complete training http//delphi.louisville
  .edu/faculty/technology/safeassign.html
• Also, check out Blackboards site
  http//www.safeassign.com/
• Has manuals, how tos, FAQs, and more!

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Overview of Tegrity
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Why Class Capture?
12020 Principle
Amount retained
Time elapsed
Teachers speak an average of 120 words per
minuteStudents write an average of 20 words per
minuteStudents must decide whether to write or
listen
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Why Class Capture?
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Why Tegrity?
Voice Recorder Only
Tablet PC for Annotations
Demonstrations
Instructor Video
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Review Anywhere, Anytime
Enhanced Audio or Video Podcast
Mobile Access
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Enhanced Podcasting
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UofL Pilot Summary

• 90 of students indicated that Tegrity would
  enhance at least some of their other courses
• 73 of students indicated that Tegrity
  contributed to their learning course material
• 66 of students indicated that studying with
  Tegrity was more effective than studying without
  Tegrity
• 59 of students surveyed indicated that Tegrity
  improved their overall course satisfaction
• 56 of students indicated that Tegrity allowed
  them to focus on the most important learning
  goals of their course
• 55 of students indicated that Tegrity improved
  the DEPTH of their learning
• 52 of students indicated that Tegrity helped
  their course grade
• 50 of students indicated that Tegrity saved time
  spent on the course
• 43 of students indicated that Tegrity increased
  their motivation to study

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Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity
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Classroom-based pedagogies

• Promoting cognitive elaboration
• Modeling think-aloud-problem solving
• Changing students current mental models
• Enhancing critical thinking
• Capturing a case-study discussion
• AcousticMagic array microphones in CoB classrooms
• Providing feedback
• Group presentations recorded and available for
  later critique
• Feedback on accuracy of note taking

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Techniques

• Full class capture
• Supplemental recordings
• Use of tablet/SmartBoard/Sympodium for annotation
  and math/chemistry/physics equations, diagrams
• Audio only MP3 and WMA input
• Incorporation of document camera sources,
  microscope output, webcam video
• Examples

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Using Tegrity
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Student Platforms
PC
Mac
Minimum Requirements CPU Pentium 4 or
higher Memory 512 MB Operating System Windows
Vista or Windows XP SP2 Browser Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer
7, Firefox 2.0
Minimum Requirements CPU PowerPC 1.4 GHz or
Intel 1.4 GHz Memory 512 MB Operating System
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger) Browser
Safari 2.0, Safari 3.0, Firefox 2.0
Other platforms Unix / Linux supporting M4V files
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Instructor Platforms
PC

• Hardware Minimum Requirements
• CPU Pentium 4 or higher
• Operating System Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista
• Memory 512 MB (Windows XP SP2) or 1 GB (Windows
  Vista)
• Hard Drive Free space about 4 GB
• At a bare minimum, Tegrity requires only a
  computer and microphone for the instructor and
  access to the server via the Internet or local
  network. Any additional multimedia hardware can
  be connected and captured if desired.
• Similar to WebEx, there is no need for IT support
  and there is also no need for proprietary
  hardware.

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Instructor Platforms
PC

• Functionality
• Two recording modes
• Standard Recording mode Lowest resource usage
  (CPU and disk) recording. Records with
  PowerPoint with a dedicated OLE solution,
  annotations with a dedicated engine and screen
  recording and video.
• Enhanced Recording mode Captures entire
  recording as a screen recording. Enables
  instructor video throughout the recording.

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Instructor Platforms
PC

• Functionality
• Standard Recording mode
• Pros
• Small disk footprint for recordings
• Shortened post-processing time
• Reduced bandwidth needed for playback
• Cons
• Does not support PowerPoint animations and ink or
  embedded video
• Does not capture software running over PowerPoint
  (like Clickers)

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Instructor Platforms
PC

• Functionality
• Enhanced Recording mode
• Pros
• Captures any software running over PowerPoint
  (like Clickers)
• Instructor video available throughout the
  recording
• Cons
• Uses more disk and CPU as recordings are captured
  as screen recordings
• Higher bandwidth needed for playback
• Post-processing takes more time as there is more
  recording data to convert

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Instructor Platforms
Mac

• Hardware Minimum Requirements
• CPU PowerPC 1.4 GHz or Intel 1.4 GHz her
• Operating System Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4
  (Tiger)
• Memory 512 MB
• Hard Drive Free space about 4 GB

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Demonstration

• Easier to show in actual system

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Tegrity Recorder
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Selecting a Course
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Recording Settings
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Course View
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Class Expanded
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Tegrity Player
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Tegrity Player Smart Slider
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Action Menu
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Course Settings
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Resources

• Delphi and IT are building resources for
  Tegrityhttp//delphi.louisville.edu/help/tegrity
  .html https//docushare.louisville.edu/dsweb/Vie
  w/Collection-7039
• Includes
• Overview documents for students and faculty
• Faculty and student guides
• Offer complete training http//delphi.louisville.
  edu/faculty/technology/tegrity.html

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Blogs and Wikis
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What is a Blog?

• DailyBlogTips.com offers
• A blog is basically a type of website, like a
  forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is
  defined by the technical aspects and features
  around it, and not by the content published
  inside it.
• The features that make blogs different from other
  websites are
• content is published in a chronological fashion
• content is updated regularly
• readers have the possibility to leave comments
• other blog authors can interact via trackbacks
  and pingbacks
• content is syndicated via RSS feeds

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What is a Blog?

• DailyBlogTips.com offers

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How Blogs are Used

• Blogs in Blackboard are often used for personal
  reflection (private journals) and community
  discussions
• May set up in any content area
• May also set up a course level blog used by
  instructor to communicate with class
• Think Announcements with student comments

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What is a Wiki?

• The Wikipedia article on Wikis suggests
• Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their
  book The Wiki Way Quick Collaboration on the Web
  described the essence of the Wiki concept as
  follows
• A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to
  create new pages within the wiki Web site, using
  only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any
  extra add-ons.
• Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations
  between different pages by making page link
  creation almost intuitively easy and showing
  whether an intended target page exists or not.
• A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual
  visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the
  visitor in an ongoing process of creation and
  collaboration that constantly changes the Web
  site landscape.

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How Wikis are Used

• Wikis in Blackboard are often used with team
  projects
• Members of the team collaborate to produce online
  site
• Also empowers the instructor with assessment
  details such as student submissions and
  percentage of participation within the group

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Resources

• Delphi is building resources for Blogs
  Wikishttp//delphi.louisville.edu/help/wikisBlog
  s.html Includes
• Getting started guides
• Step-by-Step directions for configuring, posting,
  and contributing
• Offers complete training http//delphi.louisville
  .edu/faculty/technology/blogs_wikis.html
• Also, check out vendor Learning Objects site
  http//www.learningobjects.com/
• See TeamsLX (wiki tool) and JournalLX (blog tool)
• For more examples, see
• BlogsForLearning
• Campus Technology article The Power of Wikis in
  Higher Ed

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Acknowledgements

• This presentation would not have been possible
  without the help of my colleagues from
  DelphiEdna Ross (Tegrity)Ghanashyam Sharma
  (SafeAssign)Mike Homan (Blogs Wikis)

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Questions