Designing Technology-Integrated Instruction CETL Pedagogy Seminar-Instructional Technology April 16 th 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 Virginia Pros 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 21 st Century Students Search Engines – Articles (text), Images, Data Bing - Google - Cuil - Google Squared - Presents results in a matrix formathttp:// Wolfram Alpha – - Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answerhttp://
Finding usable content to enhance the learning experience for 21 st 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 students TeacherTube - FREE repository of educational videos Merlot – available inside Blackboard, Epsilen, and SoftChalk MIT Visualizing Cultures Project: Intelecom – an educational reference subscription service and searchable curriculum-based video clip repository. Gallery Systems ( QCC Media Server (Tiger Media) – Amy Traver:
Technology to enhance and augment the learning experience for 21 st Century Students PowerPoint Camtasia – alone or with FREE Audacity PowerPoint & Camtasia together – Digital Storytelling English 103 Student – tells her own story of my mother SWF/memories of my mother SWF.htmlhttp://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 Essay Reflection via video The Ghetto (final multimedia essay/digital story) SoftChalk – see next slide
Technology to enhance and augment the learning experience for 21 st 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 Blackboard and SoftChalk - A Partner Webinar Winning Lessons DEMO: Introduction to Dental Terminology Innovator Vignettes