Shelley Todd

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Criteria For Effective Teaching Using Technology

• Shelley Todd
• Teaching and Learning Center Coordinator

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Criteria to Think About

• Course Organization
• Clarity of Your Course Presentations
• Openness and Rapport
• Stimulation of Student Interest and Involvement

• Getting Feedback from Students
• Giving Feedback to Students
• Your Teaching Style
• Humor

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Course Organization

• How do you organize your course?
• Describe your skills in the following areas
• Planning
• Managing
• Presenting
• Create a website to aid you in this process

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Clarity of Your Course Presentations

• Technology can help you to clarify, develop, and
  communicate ideas by using simple explanation
  with
• Graphics
• Animations

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Openness and Rapport

• Do your teaching methods provide you with the
  ability to
• Create a class atmosphere of mutual respect
• Student involvement?
• Try e-mail

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Stimulation of Student Interest and Involvement

• You can post discussion questions and facilitate
  student involvement in class discussion
• You could set up a class discussion forum or
  bulletin board to start or continue course
  discussions

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Stimulation of Student Interest and Involvement

• Have students create web resources
• Have students post websites with pertinent
  information
• Explore the web and see if there are simulations,
  web tutorials, or tours that would enhance your
  course material

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Getting Feedback from Students

• Ask your students for their thoughts on your
  teaching style and course material
• It will help you to assess the students
  understanding
• It will help you improve your teaching methods

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Giving Feedback to Students

• This needs to be accomplished
• In a timely manner
• As a continuous process
• Process to accomplish feedback
• Online grade book
• E-mail message

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Humor

• It is time to quit fishing and take the bait. In
  other words it is time for you to evaluate your
  Teaching Style. View following video clip on the
  website for the reason why?

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Do You Know Your Teaching Style?

• To get this question answered click the action
  button below. It will take you to a Teaching
  Style Inventory. Complete the Inventory and it
  will help you discover your teaching style.

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Key Points - Effective Teaching Using Technology
1 Enhances course organization
2 Encourages Contacts Between Students and Faculty
3 Using Technology Develops Reciprocity and Cooperation Among Students
4 Provides active learning possibilities
5 Using technology help with timely feedback
6 Using technology provides teachers and students with way to discover teaching and learning styles and improve the course
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Information On Teaching Styles

• http//www.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/tstyle.html
• http//web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/5styles.html
• http//members.shaw.ca/mdde615/tchstyles.htm