nitle workshop: digital teaching
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Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
Lee University, February 20, 2008Jennifer Sader & Becca Anzalone
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Workshop Overview
0. Introductions and overview1. Resource aggregation2. Web Applications3. Multimedia pedagogy4. Next Steps
What does liberal education mean to you?
How does your university’s mission embody a liberal education?
How do you use technology in the classroom?
Break
Stop and WriteCome Back at 10:30 AM
Early Modern Information Overload
“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire . . .” Adrien Baillet, Jugement de Paris, 1685
Browse to: http://del.icio.us
Our tag: NITLE_digital_teaching
Find three resources that you can use in your professional activities and tag them.
Hands-on:
RSS
• “Really Simple Syndication”• RSS Aggregators
– Google– Bloglines– Sage (for Firefox)
• RSS feed from del.icio.us
Lunch
Stop and WriteCome back at 1:00 PM
How has the web changed?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Web 1.0 Examples
• Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html
• Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/
• Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
Searching Blogs
• Google Blog Search• Technorati
Multimedia Pedagogy
• Text• Images• Audio• Video
Multimedia Pedagogy
• Why multimedia in the classroom?
– Learning styles– Active engagement– Changing population, literacy– Long, long tradition
Finding Multimedia
Multimedia Syntheses
• Presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote)
• Media: text, images, sound, video– Demonstration and Hands-On
• Ease of use• Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf
Tufte)
Avoid Death by PowerPoint
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Break
Stop and WriteCome back at 3 PM
Small Group Discussion
How will you use what you’ve learned today?
Final Check-in
Share results of discussion