Teach with Technology: Designing Instruction

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Teach with Technology Designing Instruction

• Melissa J. Miszkiewicz Director, Academic
  Computing and Technical Services
• Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY, USA
• 23.04.2007.

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Agenda

• Technology is a tool that can aid teaching.
• How you use technology, how you ask your students
  to use and apply technology, is up to you.
• How do you design instruction?

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• What are some of the things you consider when
  designing a course?
• Audience requisite knowledge?
• Type of knowledge course is intended to impart?
  (rote knowledge, problem solving skills,
  information seeking, application of a motor
  skill?)
• Desired outcome(s)?
• Methods by which you will evaluate progress,
  learning, mastery?

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• It is in considering these items that you begin
  the process of designing instruction.
• It is during the design process that you may
  consider technology.

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• A little information about the Instructional
  Design Field
• Behaviorism
• Constructivism
• Rapid Prototyping

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• A little information on learner characteristics
• Howard Gardner
• http//pzweb.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm
• http//pss.uvm.edu/pss162/learning_styles.html
• http//www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
• Malcolm Knowles
• http//www.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/malc
  olmknowles.cfm

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• Learner Characteristics
• Controlled for, to a some degree, by your
  admissions criteria
• Still, some variances (e.g. verbal vs. visual,
  adult vs. teen,etc.) will appear
• In some cases, technology can help you appeal to
  multiple learner characteristics
• More on learning theory
• http//tip.psychology.org/theories.html
• VARK
• http//www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

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• What if you dont know where to start? (HO)
• Lets look at some ready-made resources
• http//www.merlot.org
• http//www.healcentral.org

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• Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 zeitgeist is that we do not have to
  create our own technology. Its there waiting for
  us to use it!

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• Blogs
• Your students can keep blogs (web journals)
• https//www2.blogger.com/start
• You can assign blogs for students to read
  (expert bloggers)
• http//chronicle.com/wiredcampus/
• http//www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archive
  s/F/ucsb057.html
• http//engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2006/07/12/g
  oogle-tech-talks/
• http//media.ucsc.edu/blog/

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• RSS Feeds
• Some built in to browsers
• Google desktop
• http//www.bloglines.com
• iTunes and iTunesU
• http//itunes.stanford.edu/
• Podcasts

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• Web 2.0 and Collaboration
• Want to share?
• http//www.flickr.com
• http//www.del.icio.us/
• http//www.scrapblog.com/
• Need a spreadsheet that everyone can use?
• http//numsum.com/ http//www.google.com/google-d-
  s/intl/en/tour1.html
• Need a Word Processor?
• http//mashable.com/2005/09/21/writely-the-web-20-
  word-processor/

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• Trouble citing sources in your research paper?
• http//scholarword.com/
• http//www.editgrid.com/home
• Need file space?
• http//www.pando.com/ (be careful)
• http//www.openomy.com/

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• Wikis
• Faculty memer at BSC uses this to teach folklore.
• Many businesses using them to create and share
  documentation.
• In-context correspondence, not linear.
• http//www.pmwiki.org/

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• Open Office
• http//www.openoffice.org/
• http//www.goffice.com/
• Want your students to create Web pages
• http//www.nvu.com/index.php
• Slide Editor (PPT)
• http//meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

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• More Resources
• http//www.aypwip.org/webnote/
• http//www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo
• http//www2.meebo.com/index-en.html
• http//www.zimbra.com/index.html
• www.bloglines.com
• http//www.google.com/ig?sourcegeaw

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• Questions??
• Comments???