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Technology Trends in Higher Education
Stone Soup Seminar May 11, 2010Presenters: Robin Baneth, Laura Davidson, Jeff Howlett , Becky Kirstein, Barry Koster, Diane Sherman & Cheryl Todd
Disclaimer Video: Future Technology NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYMn1RR7Y0
What is it?
Second Life is the largest virtual world
with VoIP.
Who’s doing it?
Millions of users including many Universities and
Colleges.
How does it work?
Users can create their own environment or use
many of the environments created by
others.
VoIP enables lecture and discussions
Virtual environment allows interactivity and
experimentation.
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Why is it significant?
Access anywhere with
web connectivity
Share with the world or keep
private
What are the downsides?
Modification to lesson plans
Training to teach in a different
environment
Where is it going?
New simulations are created daily for
students to experience
Many professionals and
artist are adopting, allowing students access to
them and their work
What are the implications for
teaching and learning?
A more collaborative teaching and
learning environment at
Meredith College.
Professors working together with
professionals in their field of study.
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Visual Understanding Environment: http://vue.tufts.edu/
IBM Many Eyes: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
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What is it?
portable, low-powered,
high resolution devices
designed to display digital
versions of written material:
books, magazines,
newspapers, and other printed
sources
How does it work?
presents electronic versions of text, typically using
e-ink, a display technology designed to simulate printed
paper
it offers similar resolution as
newsprint and, relative to an LCD screen, eliminates glare and reduces
eyestrain
Who’s doing it?
students to download textbooks
universities & colleges to make
text books available digitally
textbook publishers have joined forces with e-reader manufacturers
to produce texts in e-book formats, giving rise to new distribution
models
Why is it significant?
a move to digital textbooks and
coursepacks would have broad implications both
for the traditional campus bookstore and
for an institution’s library
e-readers are changing the economics for buyers and sellers of text-based intellectual property, including educational materials
What are the downsides?
publishers have growing numbers of
channels & formats for their content
susceptible to damage-though electronic
content can usually be recovered
the ability to loan a digital text to multiple users
simultaneously challenges the paradigm of traditional
libraries-would need to change services & modes
of distribution to accommodate them
Where is it going?
redefinition of roles & conventions in
traditional chain of content transfer
class materials will be available in
multiple modes*
publishers have growing numbers of
channels & formats for their content
What are the implications for
teaching and learning?
more flexible content aggregation and
prompt information updates
inclusion of articles not published through
traditional channels
highly customizable course materials*
interactive maps, charts, graphs, all illustrating
lecture points
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• Multiple author collaboration
• Some use non-linear branching
• Hierarchy of ideas, overview to detail, through zooming and panning
• Live audience input (like polling/ Clickers)
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• Accessible by all team members. Unplanned directions.
• One canvas rather than a sequence of slides.
• Explain how facial recognition software analyzes images.
• Human face image in center of canvas and labels features.
• Team members can put explanations and web links further out on canvas.
• Xoom in and out and draw focus to different paths.
• The group divides canvas into 4 regions and places comments, images, videos, and links in respective areas.
• Audience can follow on own computers.
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• Access from anywhere, anytimeAccess, import, edit and share presentations anywhere anytime
• Sharing and CollaborationNo more emailing around of presentation files. Share your presentations with your friends/colleagues and the shared presentations can be viewed/edited with just a browser.
• Present from RemoteGive a presentation to a client who is half a globe away. Do your demos while at your seat.
• EmbeddingMake your presentations public. Embed them in your blog or website for easy viewing for your readers.
GLOGSTER
Great free way to distribute a beautiful one page/slide “poster” with music and video, etc. like for
organization and classroom teams.
Example: Instantly upload and share linked video of yourself, like topic
intro.
As with blogging, folks could comment on it or rate it if you
registered and logged in.
Also could be used for simple classroom presentations.
Concurrent log-ins only available in $11.95/mo version. Multiple remote
editors.
PREZIFree presentation tool on web. Equivalent to
Powerpoint on web
Reduced feature but quick and easy. No need to carry flash bob
Transformation zebra interface to rotate, move objects
Hierarchical idea/brainstorming
Zoom in Zoom Out; supports mouse wheel
Could embed in Prezi blog
Video must be Flash at the moment
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• Those who enjoy experimenting with alternative presentation applications
• Users who want to save money or do not own MS powerpoint
• Faculty who enjoy rich feature sets
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• Move application off desktop and onto the internet
• Reveal information in a non-linear fashion
• Greater audience interaction
• Zoho Show, more like Powerpoint, allows audience members to comment and changes to presentation in real-time
• Live collaboration
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• Shift away from click and talk paradigm
• Platform independent
• Multiple contributors
• Stored for public use
• Compilation of insights, snapshots, interpretations of data
• Use multiple times in different ways
• Make libraries of presentations
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• Distracting viewers (zooms, pans, animations)
• End product can be disorienting if not controlled
• Presentation can vary each time it is given
• Will not replace PowerPoint
• Metaphors may not be effective as presenters might think
• Functionality might vary depending on browser
• Require internet
• High res images, could be slow
• Don’t allow presentation to be permanently downloaded or user-owned media devices
• Extra effort to ensure attributions are correct
• Host sites could go out of business
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• Further changes to presentation model
• Broader acceptance and wider use
• Complex layers and 3D images
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• Re-examination of the nature of information presentation and sharing.
• Non-linear thought patterns (student queries, experimental results, group brainstorming)
• Free-form lecture branching
• Audience collaboration, multimedia integration, cross platform viewing
• Merging of in-person and remote classroom audiences
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Poll Everywhere
• Polleverywhere.com
• Live Audience polling
• Web-based polling tool
• Can do 30 for free
• Device is Student’s own cell phone
• Create polls and receive results
• SMS, Twitter too.
• Embed into Powerpoint
Pie Charts from BB Survey in 4 steps
• Pivot charts in Excel
• Don’t need to exit BB; Excel opens automatically with default answers
• Beautiful and informative pie charts for free
• Charles Darwin– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aTjIJyXcB8&feature=related
• Ben Franklin– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpdO6gnzg2I&feature=related
chalk board --words, diagrams,
equations, ....
.. easy to pick up next class where you
left off
taking notes --students can keep
ALL of their notes on the computer,
including math, biology, ...
tests -- like hand done but in the
computer
research, cartoons --anything you used to
do on paper
Hammer out equations, sketches
... on the pad.
A $25 way to fake having a tablet!
Software: Jarnal
http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm
It’s FREE!
(Jmaker add-on helps with
drag'n'drop).
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JING™
SnagIt™
Audacity is a free, audio editing program.
VoiceThread is a slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways
Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.
It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.
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What is it?
an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and
participate in other networks
creators of networks determine the site’s appearance ,functionality, and whether the site
is public or private
networks include features such as: photos , videos, lists of members , events, groups , and communication tools such as forums or blogs
no technical skill is required to set up a network
no limits to the number of networks a user can join
Who’s doing it?
used for activities ranging from news, current events, and professional development to
entertainment, dating, and support groups
networks can be municipal, regional, international
alumni groups (high school, college & university) develop networks where graduates can
reconnect and stay in touch
can be used as a complement to a primary website or as the primary platform for the
website
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How does it work? Why is it significant?
users design and build a social network that looks and
behaves exactly as its creator or members believes it should
uses technology to discover connections between people
& content
allows users to connect and build community
What are the downsides?
some networks are in a near-constant state of change, with no clear model of organization and function that will best suit
a particular community
can add to the “burden” of managing involvement in
multiple personal networks and keeping track of “friends”
across the network
network creators ,who have the technical ability, can create new tools and features to respond to the changing needs and demands of the network members
users can create new social networks in very little time, with no technical skill required.
once a name and a URL are selected, assembling the network is a simple process of working through four screens
the user indicates whether the network is or public
the user may add a tag-line, description; assign keywords; choose from a selection of features (such as photos or videos, a blog, events, groups, or gadgets) use drag-and-drop tools to place features on the page; choose a visual theme (colors, fonts, sizes), etc
Since its introduction in late 2006, the Wii has been a favoriteof the gaming community, which has praised the system fortransforming the gaming experience into a physical activity.
The controller has also captured the interest of academic researchers and hackers, who seek to apply the technology to other uses.• Using custom hardware and software he developed, a PhD student at the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University created an application that uses Wii technology to turn any surface into an inexpensive, interactive whiteboard.
• Faculty at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley, developed an application based on the Wii concept that allows choreographers to collaborate from a distance. The application senses the position of the dancers and renders those people on a screen, which simultaneously shows dancers at several locations, providing a shared, virtual experience.
• A professor in the department of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University has conducted research into the use of Wii games for training surgeons. He found that students who played a Wii game that requires hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity to move a marble through a series of obstacles showed considerably higher improvement in their surgical techniques than students who did not play the game.
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• WYNN 5 is the first product that fully integrates all the support capabilities of a powerful literacy software program into the Internet, rather than merely superimposing "floating" tool bars on the text.
• With WYNN 5, students can have Web text read out loud as well as access the study tools that they rely on for their traditional classroom work, like dictionary and highlighting features.
• WYNN 5 is also the only software that offers struggling students WebMasking™. This patented feature highlights selected text on a Web page by line, sentence or paragraph while blocking out distracting elements like advertisements. This enables the reader to better focus, read and comprehend text.
• WYNN 5 is also the only software allowing users to highlight several pieces of selected text on the Internet and extract that highlighted text directly into a single document with one mouse click; no cut and paste required.
Exploring the Effects of Digital Note Taking onStudent Comprehension of Science TextsMark A. Horney, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Fatima Terrazas-ArellanesUniversity of OregonWilliam Schulte, Jon Mundorf, Sheri WisemanCollier County Schools, Collier County, FloridaKeith SmolkowskiOregon Research InstituteJen Katz-Buonincontro, Mindy L. FrisbeeUniversity of Oregon
This study investigated the effects of text notes and voice notes on the comprehension of science texts by fifth grade students. The study was conducted to determine whether digital note taking was an effective reading strategy, and whether one form of digital note taking was more effective than the other. Results revealed that general education students made statistically significant gains for both science texts: Cells, and Heredity. For Cells, the voice notes group outperformed their text note peers at a level that was statistically significant. Special education students also made greater test gains using voice notes rather than text notes, and this difference was statistically significant for short-answer tests on Heredity. Additional analyses revealed diverse note taking strategies, which appeared consistent across media.
• Mobile computing has been the emerging technology that has never settled into its niche
• By 2015, voice services will make up only 10% of the over $1 trillion, mobile services market
• Convergence is always attempted, but a new technology or class of hardware shifts the consumer marketplace
– Currently the mobile computing market has begun to stabilize with the Smartphone as the defacto standard
– Outside forces that could change this stabilization are the iPad, net books, commoditization of monitors and prototype devices
The Pulse smart pen records and links audio to what you write, so you never miss a word.
• Transfer your notes and recordings to your computer to play them back.
• Search for words within your handwritten notes. Find what you want in seconds.
• Share your notes and audio online for everyone to see.
• Transform your notes, drawings, and recordings into Flash movies.
• Automatically convert handwritten notes into text with available software
http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/google_docs
Meredith College has chosen Atomic Learning as an onlinesoftware training resource for faculty, staff and students. It is our goal to prepare our community of learners and educators with the 21st century skills needed for today’s world.
Atomic Learning provides training on over 110 of the most commonly used software applications for Macs & PCs, such as: Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Inspiration, Firefox, Google, and Audacity.
AL also provides training on subject specific software, for example: SPSS (now PASW) and TI-84.
You will also find tutorials on a variety of social networking tools/blogs, such as: Twitter, Netvibes, del.icio.us, Itunes, and flickr.
To begin using Atomic Learning, please follow these steps:1. Go to: http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/home2. To access to all of the features please log in using the following format:
Username: email address (ex. [email protected]) Password: mc email username (ex. mcsmithg)
For an overview of the features please go to: http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/atomicsite
• Since each faculty member and staff member now have a unique login and password (You may change your password under My Profile & Settings.) you will be able to track your own progress, once you have assigned tutorials to yourself.
• Faculty will be able to assign tutorials to their students once they have been set-up as a course administrator and the students have been added to AL (Atomic Learning) by a system administrator. Presently, to use either the Assign Training or Recommend Training feature, a faculty member will need to email a request for admin access and their class list to Jennifer Kane [email protected] or Cheryl Todd [email protected]
Presently, all students still have access to AL using the following generic login: Username: mstudent Password: angels
Please take advantage of this powerful resource, whether you use Atomic Learning for professional development, in the classroom, or even for your own personal growth. If you have questions about using any of the AL features please contact: Jennifer Kane at ext 8199 or Cheryl Todd at ext 8753.
Animoto http://animoto.com/education Atomic Learning http://atomiclearning.com Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/E-Books http://barnesandnoble.com/nook/
http://apple.com/ipad/http://books.google.com
Glogster http://glogster.com Google http://google.com/intl/en/options/Jing http://jingproject.com/Ning http://ning.com Poll Anywhere http://polleverywhere.com/ Prezi http://prezi.com Second Life http://secondlife.com
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACS/50/50/50 Slideshare http://slideshare.net/ Smart Pen http://livescribe.com/store/Snagit http://snagit.com
Tablet Software http://dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm Virtualization http://vue.tufts.edu/
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/#home Wii http://nintendo.com/wiiWynn http://freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/wynn.aspZoho http://zoho.com/