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Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction

Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction. CETL Pedagogy Seminar-Instructional Technology April 16 th Bruce Naples, Director - Academic Computing Center. Background Learning Management Systems (LMS). LMSs Provide a framework for :

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Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction

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  1. Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction CETL Pedagogy Seminar-Instructional Technology April 16th Bruce Naples, Director - Academic Computing Center

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

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