Teaching and Learning with Sakai: 15 Minutes of Fame, Shame and to Frame
Teaching and Learning Sakai GroupPreconference Session, 7 July 2009
Pre-Conference Workshop Overview
• Session goal is to highlight:• Examples of how Sakai is being used to
enhance teaching and learning (Fame)• Pitfalls to avoid when using Sakai (Shame)• Conference sessions or other resources
where more can be learned (Frame)• Each presenter will have 15 minutes (firm)• Q&A “round-table” session at end
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Collaboration Across Semesters
Reba-Anna LeeAssistant Director of Academic Technology and elearning
Marist College
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FAME: Cross Semester Project Sites
• Projects sites used by two semesters of students to collaborate
• Wiki was key tool in all of the project sites
• Project Sites used as student collaborative spaces
• Two semesters worth of information was available to students
• Project Sites
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SHAME: Two miscalculations...• Use of WEB DAV tool
• Moving large chunks of course materials from old system to Sakai
• Deletion of all My Workspaces
• Association of Rosters by faculty
• Misunderstanding of the function
• Outcry by faculty
• Advice: Be aware of your “surroundings”55
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FRAME: Student Presentation
Dr. Mark Van Dyke and Marist students Presentation
What did iLearn Today? Sakai and the Net Generation
Friday July 10 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
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Using Matrices, Forms and Portfolios in K-8
Deb BoisvertMary Rubega
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FAME: 8th Grade Digital Portfolios
Sakai allowed us to • Connect artifacts to reflection• Shift the focus from showcase to reflection• Samples of student portfolios
• Tip: Meet regularly for development and for sharing you progress with wide variety of groups.
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SHAME: Publish Your Matrix
• When to publish our matrix?• Challenged by the need for a 9 year collection
span and wanting to continue to tweak.
• When we lost the matrix data we did not loose resources.
• Advice: If many people are using it, publish it!
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FRAME: Step to NHCollab Statewide
• Digital portfolios and statewide collaboration K-12 – Wednesday 2:30 - 3:00, William Dawes room
For more information contact
Deb Boisvert - [email protected]
Mary Rubega - [email protected] or
Theresa Schneiderheinze - [email protected]
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Calendar-Driver Course, First Week’s Woes, and My Hectic Schedule…
Mathieu Plourde, Project Leader, LMSUniversity of Delaware
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FAME: Calendar-Driven Course
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James Dean, Department of Englishhttp://tinyurl.com/story-dean
Use of the Schedule Tool to Sequence Learning and
Replace the Syllabus
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SHAME: First Week’s Woes
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Percentage of Faculty on Sakai@UD – Fall 2008
Expected
Real
Balance
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9/15/2
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9/22/2
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9/29/2
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10/6/2
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10/13/2
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10/20/2
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10/27/2
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Number of Users on Sakai@UD
Don’t underestimate faculty’s willingness to change!(and do extensive load testing too…)
Fall 2008
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FRAME: Mathieu’s Schedule
• Citizen Journalism: Ustream and Flip Video Pilots.• BOF: SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge Standards
(Wednesday @ 16:05)• Strategies to Support Your Users: Custom
Documentation and Help Files (Thursday @ 15:15)• BOF: Sakai Documentation: Discussing a Better Sharing
Strategy (Thursday @ 16:05)• An Honest Look at Sakai: What Should We Tell Potential
Adopters? (Friday @ 13:45)
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Texas State: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Whitten Smart User Services Consultant
Texas State University – San Marcos
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FAME: Podcasts
• Podcasts tool used to deliver lectures to online version of class• Instructor converted traditional course to an
online course with same expectations• Uses dates of availability feature to simulate
class lecture times• Because of podcasts the instructor chose to
look at other Sakai and technology tools
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SHAME: System Changes
• System changes made before finals resulting in system outage.• A little slow to catch on. Done not just once, but
twice.• At that time, no development environment
existed• Test, test, test
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FRAME: Faculty Stories about Sakai
• Faculty Stories about Sakai:• Wed. July 8th, 2:15-3:00, Thomas Paine
• For more information:http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu• Whitten Smart, [email protected]
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Group Projects, Special Characters, and More About Process
Madeleine Gonin and Kate EllisTeaching and Learning Technologies Center
Indiana University Bloomington
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FAME: Group Projects
Collaborative Writing + Multimedia• web pages in Resources tool• detailed instructions provided• support from teaching center
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Student Work
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SHAME: Special Characters
• conversion to UTF-8 database• communication with faculty
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FRAME: More About Processes
• Evaluating Testing Tools: Process and Results07-08-09 16:00 Thomas Paine
• Many Hands Make Light Work: A Practical Approach to QA Testing07-09-09 14:15 Crispus Attucks
Madeleine Gonin, mgonin at indiana dot eduKate Ellis, kdellis at indiana dot edu
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Presenter Chuck Severance:Materials at dr-chuck.com
Break…
Teaching and Learning with Sakai: 15 Minutes of Fame, Shame and to Frame
Susan RoigDirector Academic Computing
Claremont Graduate University
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FAME: TWISA
• Teaching with Innovation Sakai Award• Quality not quantity of tools used - key• Sound Pedagogical approach to use of tools• Sharing of site at
http://www.openedpractices.org • Use site a reference for best practices
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FAME: Project Site Creation
• CUC population (students and faculty) each have account and access to project site creation. • Use of Sakai – student driven• Project sites developed as work groups, group
projects, clubs, department meetings• Faculty asked “will you be using Sakai in this
class?”
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SHAME: Project sites
• CUC population (students and faculty) each have account and access to project site creation. • "Sustainability Group" everyone given
maintain role instead of giving specific permissions, one member deleted entire site;• "Treasures site" confidentiality issue not
understood nor groups and permissions.
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SHAME: Guest Accounts
• Use of Sakai for international seminar, guests accounts not students • Disastrous problem with access and guest
accounts.• More time spent on access issues than on
seminar.
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FRAME: TWISA
• Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Presentations • Thursday 8:15 - 9:35 Keynote Speakers: 1st and 2nd
Award Winners• Honorable Mention – • Cherry Stewart – Thursday 13:45-14:15 Thomas Paine
Design Reflective and Interacting eLearning: Online Professional Development• Dr. Mark Van Dyke – Friday 12:30 – 1:30 Empress
Room What Did iLearn Today? Sakai and the Net Generation
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FRAME: Claremont Colleges
• Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 Sakai at the Claremont Colleges 11:00 - 12:00 Crispus Attucks
• http://sakai.claremont.edu • Susan Roig Director Academic Computing Claremont Graduate University
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Closing the Loop: Curriculum, PD, Student Artifacts, Assessment,
CurriculumSteven Foehr, Director of Application Services
Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology
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FAME: Closing the Loop
• Standards Based
• Curriculum Development
• Professional Development
• Student Artifacts
• Assessment
• Curriculum Development
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SHAME: Don’t Underestimate Change
• Change is hard:• Collaborating on assignments/curriculum• Leadership• Never enough PD• Sakai is a vehicle
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FRAME: K12 is Coming to Sakai
• What’s In It for Us? The Benefits of an Electronic Graduation Portfolio. Thursday, 9:45 AM, William Dawes.
• Digital portfolios and statewide collaboration K-12. Wednesday, 2:30 PM, William Dawes.
• RI Department of Education Office of Middle and High School Reform
• Steven Foehr: [email protected] 2009
Fame-Shame-Frame
Cherry Stewart, Educational Designer, University of New England, Australia
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Fame
• What is working for us?• Change management via 3 participatory
action-research projects • Getting online workshops (modeled on
University of Leicester Carpe Diem model) www2.le.ac.uk/projects/adelie/adelieblog/carpediemtakingstock
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Shame
• What could we do differently?• Students and staff struggle with Web 2.0
literacy• eSubmission system unavailable (my une
crash) on final due date• when something goes wrong - IT problem
solving skills regress
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Frame
• 5th Generation DE: Who’ Responsible?• Using Web technologies in Bachelor of
Nursing blended learning strategies• Reflective e-Learning: Online professional
learning for academic and support staff
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QUESTIONS?
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Outside and Inside the Box
Robin HillCoordinator of Instructional Computing
University of Wyoming
FAME: Teaching at the Fringe
Sakai has allowed teaching to take place not only outside the classroom, but:
Outside the academic calendarSome classes start a month or two early.Some classes don’t take place in any specific semester.
Outside the official rosterGuest and test students and faculty are accommodated.
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SHAME: Terminology Shock
Dropbox: Not what we expected
“Dropbox” is the name of the student-work tool in eCollege/eCompanion.
Faculty think that Sakai’s Dropbox will allow grading, marking, and return of student work…
We look forward to the emergence of standard terms in course management systems.
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FRAME: Databases and Reports for Portfolios and Other Pedagogy
Discussion: Are there teaching benefits to be realized from the recording, integration, and querying of data collected from worksite activities and constructs?
Thursday, 15:15-16:00, William Dawes RoomRobin Hill, [email protected]
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