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Enhancing Education: Low Threshold Applications for Effective Learning

Explore the use of Low Threshold Applications (LTAs) to improve educational experiences through interactive technologies, such as adding audio to PowerPoint slides and creating animated GIFs. Learn how these tools can enhance pedagogy and engage students effectively.

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Enhancing Education: Low Threshold Applications for Effective Learning

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  1. Low Threshold Applications for Educational Improvement Charles J. Ansorge University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  2. Definition of LTA • A Low Threshold Application is a teach-ing/learning application of information Technology that the potential user per-ceives as NOT challenging, not intimi-dating, not requiring a lot of additional work or new thinking. Steve Gilbert, President TLT Group

  3. LTAs/LTUs • Learn about Low Threshold Appli-cations and Uses • See demonstrations of LTAs/LTUs • Hands on experience • Plenty of opportunity to learn how LTAs impact pedagogy

  4. Adding Audio to PowerPoint Slides

  5. Digital Information • Increasingly faculty are posting information on Web sites for student access in electronic form • Documents are being made available in all sorts of formats: PDF, animation, movies, etc. • This includes PowerPoint slides shows (both handouts and slides)

  6. PowerPoint Slide Shows • Possible to easily add audio to slides with latest versions of PowerPoint for PC and Mac • Narrated slide show can then be saved and posted on Web • Viewed as a link in Blackboard

  7. PowerPoint and Pedagogy • Examples shown in session of ways that narrated PowerPoint slide shows may be used to enhance learning • Weekly updates • Previews for Future Events • Teaching vignettes • Course previews

  8. Creating Animated Gifs

  9. Why Use Animations? • Movement often conveys information more clearly than a static picture • Low bandwidth alternative to video • Can use color to highlight important components • Allows one to address different learning styles

  10. Other Examples • Editing course projects with Microsoft Word • Creating grading templates for classes with Excel • Multimedia on CDs for class usage • Palm computers in the classroom • Screen capture software

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