teaching and learning in a web 2.0 world

Teaching and Learning in a Web 2.0 World

Review

Review of Session 3

Overview of Twitter and Facebook Learning benefits of Twitter and Facebook Teaching strategies using Twitter and

Facebook Searching Twitter and Facebook Twitter feeds by discipline; Facebook pages Custom Twitter feeds Custom Facebook pages Lesson Plan activity Assessing learning activities

Today’s Purpose

Today - Purpose and Topics

Overview of Multimedia Teaching Strategies using Multimedia Internet Search Techniques Interactive Web Sites Custom Multimedia

o Snag Ito Camtasia

Integrating Multimedia into your Lesson Plans

What is Multimedia?

What is Multimedia

What is Multimedia?

The use of multimedia will help students connect to and find meaning in the content, and relate their learning to the world beyond the classroom. Multimedia components include:

• printable text• photographs• illustrations• animations• videos• audio• web links• interactive study guides and quizzes

Multimedia

Multimedia

The role of the instructor is to engage, challenge, and retain students as learners in support of their academic goals.

Today’s “digital generation” is technologically sophisticated and uses multimedia for a variety of educational and entertainment purposes.

Multimedia

Multimedia and Today’s Students

Today’s students: • play digital games

• build profiles on social networks

• generate web sites

• make videos and share them online

• create music

• voice opinions on blogs

• research questions using the Internet

• buy and sell items online

Ready-made Multimedia

Ready-made Multimedia

Multimedia

Available on the Internet:• videos (YouTube; TeacherTube)• audio files and podcasts• animations• interactive quizzes• digital games• graphics• digital lectures

But how can you locate these files for you class?

Video

What did you find on youtube?

http://www.youtube.com

Video

What did you find on TeacherTube?

http://www.teachertube.com

Animations

What did you find on MERLOT?

http://www.merlot.org

Interactive Web sites

Animations

www.medtropolis.com/VBody.aspThe Virtual Body

www.dietitian.com/ibw/ibw.htmlThe Healthy Body Calculator

www.analyzemath.comInteractive Mathematics Tutorials

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timeline0.cfmDigital History of the United States

www.visiblebody.com3D Human Anatomy

www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htmInteractive Plant Cells and Animal Cells

Interactive Web sites

Online Games and Gaming

http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.htmlPowerPoint Game Templates

http://willyoujoinus.com/energyville/?gclid=CIPZsqPU-qICFQFknAod6DsdiwEnergyville

http://marjee.org/category/games/Science Games

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/history_culture.htmlSmithsonian History and Culture Games

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/tools/games.htmlPBS History Games

http://www.learningwave.com/abmath/Absurd Math: Pre-algebra games

Internet Search Techniques

Internet Search

Internet Search

See tutorial.

Customized Multimedia

SnagIt

What is SnagIt?

SnagIt is a screen shot program that operates under the Windows Operating System.

It is part of the Camtasia download package.

Training and

Practice

SnagIt

See tutorial.

Camtasia

What is Camtasia?

Camtasia is a screen video capture program.

Camtasia can be used to create:

• digital lectures

• virtual fieldtrips

• animated case studies

• course introductions and overviews

Camtasia

Sample Camtasia Videos

Training and

Practice

Camtasia

See tutorial.

Camtasia

Camtasia Licensing

Lesson Planning

Multimedia Lesson

Plan

Lesson Plan

Update your lesson plan guide.

Include an animation or multimedia resource that meets the learning objectives by:

• creating a custom multimedia resource

or

• using a ready-made multimedia resource

Activity

Assessing Student Learning

of Multimedia Activities

Lesson Plan Assessment

Assessment

Refer to the Cross Papers booklet on assessment of student learning.

Use one of the rubrics as a model to develop a rubric to assess your Multimedia activity.

Review

Review

Overview of Multimedia Teaching Strategies using Multimedia Internet Search Techniques Interactive Web Sites Custom Multimedia

o Snag Ito Camtasia

Integrating Multimedia into your Lesson Plans

Assessing Learning Activities

Review

Final Activity

Final Activity

Access the Chickering and Gamson handout: 7 Principles of Best Practice

Review the lesson plans that you developed during this institute

How do the lesson plans meet the 7 Principles?

Final Activity

Activity

Preparation for

December

Preparation for December

Select one or more Web 2.0 tools to implement in your classroom

Select one or more of the lesson plans that you developed

Implement the lesson and assessment Survey the students for feedback Report outcome to colleagues during

December roundtable session