Leveraging Popular Culture Websites to Engage Students and Facilitate Learning Sheryl Barnes Senior Educational Technology Specialist UIT Academic Technology Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine 10/16/08 Check sound in the room – instructor and students Thanks for coming, Introductions: me go around the room – say your name and where you work.

First, a few questions for you… In order to make this time as productive as possible for you, I’d like to know: Why did you sign up for this workshop? Are there any specific things that you hope to get out of it?

My plan is to focus this workshop on: Using popular websites to engage students and facilitate learning via: (videos) (photos) (social bookmarking) In each case, I’ll introduce the site give you a chance to explore the site on your own discuss what you learned with your neighbor and the group as a whole

A few more questions for you… Vote: A = never B = 1-5 times C = 5-10 times D = >10 times How many times have you been on YouTube? How many times have you been on Flickr? Have you ever used a social bookmarking site? How many times have you taught with any of these sites? Turn clicker on, see blue power light. This is a clicker (classroom response system, CRS) anonymous polling of students promotes active learning & engages students come to AT for more info/support if you want to use them Show of hands – who has used a clicker like this before – in a class or workshop or other professional setting? Very simple

Web 2.0 – What does it mean? It depends who you ask… Yieichs - can be overwhelming, but doesn’t have to be… User-generated content, supports active learning It’s about the people….…and also the content

YouTube We know that people have different learning styles, and that many people benefit most from active learning a variety of media can help with that Search – “veterinary” … explore … Play, volume, share, favorites, playlist, comments URL, embed tag Related videos Link to who posted Categories (howto & style, education, pets) Channels – uc system (UC Davis) UC Davis Spark toolkit – easy to embed in wiki or blog show spark toolkit get login from DG free tools for any use show videos for my presentation

YouTube Activity Spend 5 minutes searching YouTube for videos that are relevant to your work. Pair up with your neighbor. Discuss what you have or have not found so far. Spend 5 minutes looking for more content together. Report back to the group about your neighbor’s experience.

Flickr Photo sharing site (could be photos of drawings or paintings or anything) Search for images – take a few suggestions from the audience Note – creative commons license Map – to share research me – antarctica > Organize > Map Home > geotagged > Somerville, MA Activity – explore site, discuss with neighbor or group… Art History example

This is a social bookmarking site… probably a less familiar concept at the very least, it’s great to have all your bookmarks in one place, rather than different sets on home & work computers. kind of like a cited reference search (in library parlance) Watch video intro until timestamp Need to create a login to save bookmarks, but you can browse bookmarks without a login. Ask for search from audience – a topic you’d like to learn about…..compare to Google results example – “active learning” Login, show my bookmarks tags – cloud or list Connect to others, browse their bookmarks Lists Groups networks – could use in class, but everyone would need a login. Specific uses in vet ed One more site - slideshare.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcecBgRd3ig&eurl=http://blog.diigo.com/ Explore

Wrap-up Remaining Questions Observations Discussion / Feedback sheryl.barnes@tufts.edu 617-627-5858 Senior Educational Technology Specialist UIT Academic Technology