Motivating Instructors to use Technology in the Classroom

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Motivating Instructors to use Technology in the
Classroom

• Presented by
• Penny Kenerly and Mona Williams

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Technology in the classroom promises instructors
new ways of accomplishing tasks or innovative
ways of teaching, and it offers a variety of
options to help students effectively learn.
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Todays students are often referred to as
digital natives.
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Topics covered in session

• Internet usage
• Instant messaging
• Chat Rooms/Electronic Bulletin Boards
• PowerPoint
• CD-ROM/CD-RW
• E-mail
• Video Conferencing
• Streaming
• Virtual Classrooms
• Blackboard/online instruction

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Internet Usage

• Internet - The Internet is a network of
  interconnected computer networks around the
  world. It provides excellent opportunities for
  users to transverse and seek information without
  ever leaving their home, office, or classroom.
  One must have a computer and a modem or DSL
  capability that will link a computer with this
  global network of networks before he/she can
  access the Internet. The World Wide Web, which
  is often times used interchangeably with the
  Internet, is a set of multimedia documents that
  are connected so a person can jump from one
  document to another using such features as URLs,
  HTTP, and Web Pages. URL (Universal Resource
  Locator) is the computer site address or location
  of the remote computer system and HTTP (Hypertext
  Transfer Protocol) is the protocol (language)
  being used to access the remote computer system.
  A Web Page, commonly referred to as a Home Page,
  is a central location on the World Wide Web.

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Internet in the Classroom

• The World Wide Webs multimedia capabilities
  make it extremely versatile for creating
  educational experiences not yet possible through
  other media and for transforming future school
  curricula. The Internet and the Web in the
  classroom offer a tremendous array of information
  resources and provide opportunities for a wide
  variety of teaching strategies. One of the most
  popular Internet activities in the classroom is
  project based. The Internet offers a wealth of
  information to gather research for a project and
  is one of the best activities to help students
  learn how to navigate around the Internet and the
  World Wide Web. An example would be to have
  specific research questions posted on a bulletin
  board and have students locate web-sites in order
  to answer those questions. The student should be
  required to give the Internet address where the
  information was found and provide correct answers
  to the questions.

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Instant Messaging

• A type of communications service that enables
  you to create a kind of private chat room with
  another individual in order to communicate in
  real time over the Internet, analagous to a
  telephone conversation but using text-based, not
  voice-based, communication. Typically, the
  instant messaging system alerts you whenever
  somebody on your private list is online. You can
  then initiate a chat session with that particular
  individual. Choosing an IM Service.

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Chat RoomsElectronic Bulletin Boards

• Chat Room/Bulletin Board - A chat room is a
  real-time electronic forum--a virtual room where
  instructors can meet their students and share
  ideas on a particular subject. Many educational
  institutions have established a web-based
  training site for instructors who wish to offer
  an on-line class. The web-based site offers a
  class-specific home page for the on-line class
  which could include a syllabus, a bulletin board,
  assignment postings, class member information and
  access to the chat room. The on-line class can
  be synchronous, asynchronous, or a combination of
  both.

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Synchronous Communication

• Synchronous means simultaneoushappening at the
  same time. In synchronous writing environments,
  the instructor and the students are able to write
  in the same document/chat room. Participants in
  a synchronous writing environment share their
  ideas in real-timethere is little delay between
  the time a writer starts to type and the
  appearance of the message on the other screens.
  Synchronous communication allows students and
  instructor to meet in this electronic space and
  can be accessed from a computer lab or from ones
  own home. Instructors still have to take the
  lead in the chat room, engaging students in
  virtual discussions. In order for instructors
  to remain in charge of the virtual platform, they
  must be able to write well and have fast,
  accurate typing. Instructors who do not type
  fast or well would need an effective
  voice-recognition software, which is also
  available to instructors who wish to have an
  on-line class.

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Asynchronous Communication

• Asynchronous communication means each character
  is transmitted independently of any other
  character. Each byte transmitted begins with a
  start bit and ends with one or two stop bits.
  Web-based forums, such as bulletin boards, class
  member information lists, and emailing lists, are
  asynchronous communication activities that can be
  used in a virtual/electronic classroom. A variety
  of asynchronous communication activities can be
  used by the instructor to make announcements to
  the class, distribute assignments, update
  schedules, or provide other course material
  updates. Instructors can also assign specific
  writing projects for students, such as,
  responding to class readings or peer review. An
  example of peer review would be to have students
  post essays on the bulletin board and have the
  peers respond to the essays as individual threads
  of discussion.

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PowerPoint

• Power Point - PowerPoint is an electronic
  presentation package offered by Microsoft. The
  PowerPoint software is user-friendly and the
  presentations are often referred to as
  interesting, dynamic, and effective. PowerPoint
  offers an automated slide master featurefor
  those who are not familiar with the software
  these are pre-designed master slide templates
  that allow users to fill in titles, graphs, and
  charts. People who are familiar with the
  software or just wish to be adventurous can
  create their own slide design and presentation
  from the beginning.
• PowerPoint offers the user a choice of font
  style and size and text color. There is also a
  build feature that allows a user to create layers
  of slides in order to reveal each point. The
  transition feature allows moving from one slide
  frame to the next, which offers an array of
  special effects and the speed from which the
  slide disappears and the next appears.
  PowerPoint also offers a clipart gallery or the
  user can import pictures from a clipart CD-ROM or
  from the Internet. PowerPoint also offers video
  and sound features for the slide presentation.

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CD-ROM

• CD-ROM - CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory)
  is an optical disk that is physically the same as
  an audio CD, but contains computer data. Many
  CD-ROMs are available for education, such as,
  CD-ROM tutorials, drill and practice,
  encyclopedias, and subject specialized CD-ROMs.
  Some of the subject specialized CD-ROMs include
  The Spanish Teacher, Creative Writer, Chemistry
  Lab, and Math Analysis. CD-ROM also offers
  software for Business, Physics, Biology, History,
  and most other educational subjects and also
  offers games and Business applications for
  non-educational purposes.

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CD-RW

• CDRW - Short for CD-ReWritable disk, a type of
  CD disk that enables you to write onto it in
  multiple sessions. One of the problems with CD-R
  disks is that you can only write to them once.
  With CD-RW drives and disks, you can treat the
  optical disk just like a floppy or hard disk,
  writing data onto it multiple times. The first
  CD-RW drives became available in mid-1997. They
  can read CD-ROMS and can write onto today's CD-R
  disks, but they cannot write on normal CD-ROMs.
  This means that disks created with a CD-RW drive
  can only be read by a CD-RW drive. However, a new
  standard called Multiread, developed jointly by
  Philips Electronics and Hewlett Packard, will
  enable CD-ROM Players to read disks create by
  CD-RW drives.

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E-mail

• E-Mail - E-mail stands for electronic mail,
  which is a service that sends messages on
  computers via local or global networks. Most
  educational institutions already have their own
  server in place, which allows instructors to have
  their own e-mail address established.
  Instructors and students can send private
  messages or group messages via e-mail. Students
  can also submit their homework via e-mail as an
  attachmentwhich is a file or document attached
  to an e-mail message. In order to send and
  receive the file, the document would have to be
  prepared with an appropriate application
  software.

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Video Conferencing

• Video Conferencing - Video conferencing offers
  instructors a wider variety of options in which
  to deliver course material. Video conferencing is
  the transmission of image (video) and speech
  (audio) back and forth between two or more
  separate locations. This is accomplished through
  the use of cameras, video displays, microphones,
  and speakers. Video conferencing not only can be
  used in distance learning, but in the physical
  classroom also. Instructors can use video
  conferencing to have experts from other
  institutions give presentations and answer
  questions without having to travel from the
  classroom. For example, instructors from other
  institutions can teach a class in a specialized
  area (such as foreign culture) from their
  classroom business people can talk about careers
  and job opportunities from their officea
  remote career day or a class can visit or work
  on projects with students in other classrooms in
  another state or across the world and get
  first-hand experience with other cultures.

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Streaming

• Streaming - Streaming is the ability to view
  video frames continuously as they are downloaded
  from the Internet. Streaming video requires
  player software, such as Microsoft NetShow Player
  or Quicktime, and can be launched by a web
  browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
  Internet Explorer. Video on the web has been
  available for years, but the video had to be
  downloaded before viewing, which is a very slow
  process. Upgraded software allows students to
  start viewing the video as it continues to
  download theoretically, there is no waiting
  involved. Before this viewing can be done, users
  must download a player software from a streaming
  video (a software developers web site). Many web
  servers have been designed specifically for
  streaming media and will perform an analysis of
  your computer and communications hardware prior
  to releasing a video stream. The streaming video
  technology makes distance learning more viable
  and also allows students who have missed a class
  to catch it later with streaming video clips of
  lectures.

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Virtual Classrooms

• Virtual Classroom - A virtual classroom is a
  web-based education system, sometimes referred to
  as an on-line class. In order to have access to
  the virtual classroom, the student and the
  instructor would need an Internet provider, such
  as, Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet
  Explorer. Most educational institutions have
  Internet access and computer labs available for
  those students who do not have Internet access in
  their home. The virtual classroom can include
  such technologies as the Internet, CD-ROM,
  E-mail, chat rooms, video conferencing, and
  streaming. Virtual classrooms can have
  centralized instruction, which involves the class
  having a specific meeting time to come together
  in the course chat room, to very decentralized
  instruction whereby students work through
  tutorials at their own pace and under their own
  direction. Students normally communicate with
  one another and with the instructor via e-mail
  and can, as mentioned earlier, send their
  assignments in via e-mail.

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Blackboard/Online Instruction

• Please plan to attend our session in order to
  view one of our own online classes and to receive
  valuable handouts. The handouts will include a
  tutorial for setting up an online class.
• You will also have the opportunity to view one of
  our instructors creativity with CD-RW technology
  for classroom lecture.