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Discover strategies and tools to enrich instructional design through technology, including Learning Management Systems, search engines, multimedia aggregators, and software applications. Explore ways to engage students effectively in online and hybrid learning environments.
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Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction CETL Pedagogy Seminar-Instructional Technology April 16th Bruce Naples, Director - Academic Computing Center
BackgroundLearning Management Systems (LMS) LMSs Provide a framework for : • Web Enhanced Courses – traditional face-to-face courses with online components • Partly Online Courses (PNET-Hybrid-Blended)30%-80% online • Fully Online Courses (FNET-Asynchronous)80%-100% online
Supported Learning Management Systems (LMS) at Queensborough • Blackboard –hosted by CUNY, currently at Bb, Inc. in VirginiaPros • Mature, robust – many features including Web 2.0 • All Courses and Students automatically populated each semester • Cons • Version 8, which we are using, is NOT well supported by Bb, Inc. • Sometimes viewed as unstable, but most outages are related to CUNY’s Login system (LDAP) and overloads of CUNY’s Network • Epsilen – hosted by the NY Times in Manhattan Pros • Includes four components: ePortfolio; Groups; Courses; Assessment Matrix • Includes Web 2.0 tools and Social Networking capability • Seems stable, but does not have the user load that Bb has • Cons • Courses, Groups, and Students membership must be established by each faculty member • Feature for feature it is not as robust as Bb, but it is getting better with time
Finding usable content to enhance the learning experience for 21st Century Students • Search Engines – Articles (text), Images, Data • Bing - http://www.bing.com/ • Google - http://www.google.com/ • Cuil - http://www.cuil.com/ • Google Squared - http://www.google.com/squaredPresents results in a matrix format • Wolfram Alpha – http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer
Finding usable content to enhance the learning experience for 21st Century Students Multimedia Aggregators – evaluate what you find here and use it in PowerPoint, Blackboard, and Epsilen • YouTube – FREE repository of videos including your own and your students http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=queensborough+community+college&aq=0 http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400 • TeacherTube - FREE repository of educational videoshttp://www.teachertube.com/ • Merlot – available inside Blackboard, Epsilen, and SoftChalkhttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm • MIT Visualizing Cultures Project: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html • Intelecom – an educational reference subscription service and searchable curriculum-based video clip repository. http://intelecom.org • Gallery Systems(http://www.gallerysystems.com) • QCC Media Server (Tiger Media) – Amy Traver: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/eportfolio/Traver.html
Technology to enhance and augment the learning experience for 21st Century Students • PowerPoint • Camtasia – alone or with FREE Audacityhttp://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asphttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • PowerPoint & Camtasia together – Digital Storytelling • English 103 Student – tells her own story • http://media.acc.qcc.cuny.edu:8088/faculty/darcy/memories of my mother SWF/memories of my mother SWF.html • English 103 Student – writes an essay and shares it with an Acting studentActing-Student’s Collaboration with Freshman-Composition-Student’s Essayhttp://www.youtube.com/user/solangepaloma • Reflection via video • http://media.acc.qcc.cuny.edu:8088/faculty/darcy/BillyJ-seeds/BillyJ-seeds.html • The Ghetto (final multimedia essay/digital story) • http://media.acc.qcc.cuny.edu:8088/faculty/darcy/Ghetto_Final2/Ghetto_Final2.html • SoftChalk – see next slide
Technology to enhance and augment the learning experience for 21st Century Students SoftChalk • What is SoftChalk? • A Desktop Application • Runs on Windows and Mac OSX • Allows you to create professional looking, interactive, Web formatted course content • Content can be delivered via LMS, Web server, and CD • BbDemohttp://www.softchalk.com/lb_archives.htmlBlackboard and SoftChalk - A Partner Webinar • Winning Lessons http://www.softchalk.com/lessonchallenge/DEMO: Introduction to Dental Terminology • Innovator Vignetteshttp://www.softchalk.com/lb_vignettes.html