Teaching and Learning in a Web 2.0 World
Review Review of Session 3 Overview of Twitter and Facebook Learning benefits of Twitter and Facebook Teaching strategies using Twitter and Facebook Searching Twitter and Facebook Twitter feeds by discipline; Facebook pages Custom Twitter feeds Custom Facebook pages Lesson Plan activity Assessing learning activities
Today’s Purpose Today - Purpose and Topics Overview of Multimedia Teaching Strategies using Multimedia Internet Search Techniques Interactive Web Sites Custom Multimedia o Snag It o Camtasia Integrating Multimedia into your Lesson Plans
What is Multimedia?
What is Multimedia What is Multimedia? The use of multimedia will help students connect to and find meaning in the content, and relate their learning to the world beyond the classroom. Multimedia components include: printable text photographs illustrations animations videos audio web links interactive study guides and quizzes
Multimedia The role of the instructor is to engage, challenge, and retain students as learners in support of their academic goals. Today’s “digital generation” is technologically sophisticated and uses multimedia for a variety of educational and entertainment purposes.
Multimedia Multimedia and Today’s Students Today’s students: play digital games build profiles on social networks generate web sites make videos and share them online create music voice opinions on blogs research questions using the Internet buy and sell items online
Ready-made Multimedia
Multimedia Available on the Internet: videos (YouTube; TeacherTube) audio files and podcasts animations interactive quizzes digital games graphics digital lectures But how can you locate these files for you class?
Video What did you find on youtube?
Video What did you find on TeacherTube?
Animations What did you find on MERLOT?
Interactive Web sites Animations The Virtual Body The Healthy Body Calculator Interactive Mathematics Tutorials Digital History of the United States 3D Human Anatomy Interactive Plant Cells and Animal Cells
Interactive Web sites Online Games and Gaming PowerPoint Game Templates Energyville Science Games Smithsonian History and Culture Games PBS History Games Absurd Math: Pre-algebra games
Internet Search Techniques
Internet Search See tutorial.
Customized Multimedia
SnagIt What is SnagIt? SnagIt is a screen shot program that operates under the Windows Operating System. It is part of the Camtasia download package.
Training and Practice SnagIt See tutorial.
Camtasia What is Camtasia? Camtasia is a screen video capture program. Camtasia can be used to create: digital lectures virtual fieldtrips animated case studies course introductions and overviews
Camtasia Sample Camtasia Videos
Training and Practice Camtasia See tutorial.
Camtasia Camtasia Licensing
Lesson Planning
Multimedia Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Update your lesson plan guide. Include an animation or multimedia resource that meets the learning objectives by: creating a custom multimedia resource or using a ready-made multimedia resource Activity
Assessing Student Learning of Multimedia Activities
Lesson Plan Assessment Assessment Refer to the Cross Papers booklet on assessment of student learning. Use one of the rubrics as a model to develop a rubric to assess your Multimedia activity.
Review
Overview of Multimedia Teaching Strategies using Multimedia Internet Search Techniques Interactive Web Sites Custom Multimedia o Snag It o Camtasia Integrating Multimedia into your Lesson Plans Assessing Learning Activities Review
Final Activity
Access the Chickering and Gamson handout: 7 Principles of Best Practice Review the lesson plans that you developed during this institute How do the lesson plans meet the 7 Principles? Final Activity Activity
Preparation for December Select one or more Web 2.0 tools to implement in your classroom Select one or more of the lesson plans that you developed Implement the lesson and assessment Survey the students for feedback Report outcome to colleagues during December roundtable session