Designing Technology-Integrated

Instruction

CETL Pedagogy Seminar-Instructional TechnologyApril 16th

Bruce Naples, Director - Academic Computing Center

Background

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

LMSs Provide a framework for :a. Web Enhanced Courses – traditional face-to-face courses with online

components

b. Partly Online Courses (PNET-Hybrid-Blended)30%-80% online

c. 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, DataBing - http://www.bing.com/ Google - http://www.google.com/ Cuil - http://www.cuil.com/Google Squared - http://www.google.com/squared

Presents results in a matrix formatWolfram 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 studentshttp://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 SoftChalk http://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 Audacity

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp http://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 student

Acting-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

Bb Demo http://www.softchalk.com/lb_archives.htmlBlackboard and SoftChalk - A Partner Webinar

Winning Lessons http://www.softchalk.com/lessonchallenge/ DEMO: Introduction to Dental Terminology

Innovator Vignettes http://www.softchalk.com/lb_vignettes.html