1. There’s an App for that! A Taxonomy of Interactive Classroom Technologies

2. Introduction Albany State University’s QEP program is Writing. Realized. - Writing in a Technological Age. The Writing.Realized. team teaches professors how to infuse into their class syllabi opportunities for student writing using computers and the Internet.

3. Timothy Sweet-Holp Political Science Professor Albany State University Building A Cloud Toolkit for Students

4. What is a cloud toolkit?  It facilitates student learning and research.  It allows anytime, anywhere access from multiple devices to applications, files, or data that students store in the cloud. Cloud Toolkit

5. Contents of our cloud toolkit  Google Documents  Google Reader  Diigo  Zotero Cloud Toolkit

6.  Google Documents  Homepage Homepage  Docs Docs  Spreadsheets Spreadsheets  Presentations  Forms Forms Cloud Toolkit

7.  Google Reader Google Reader  tool for gathering, reading, and sharing interesting blogs and Web sites.  allows subscription to blogs through RSS feeds of news headlines, audio, and video.blogsRSS Cloud Toolkit

8.  Diigo  web application and site for social bookmarking and web annotation.  "an online community for learning people, where information, knowledge, and community come together....” (Diigo.com) Cloud Toolkit

9.  Diigo Functions Diigo  Bookmark  Tag  Share  Highlight  Capture Cloud Toolkit

10.  Zotero  an easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources.  it lives right where the work is done—in the Web browser itself. Cloud Toolkit

11.  Zotero Zotero  Bookmark articles from electronic databaseselectronic databases  Collect  Info  Notes  Organize  Tags  Groups Groups Cloud Toolkit

12. Using Audio-Video Screen Captures to Evaluate Student Writing Remotely Tom Clancy Director, Quality Enhancement Plan Albany State University

13. Visit this site (www.techsmith.com) to register for free use of “Jing.” Or visit this site (www.screenr.com) for free use of “Screenr.”this sitewww.techsmith.comthis sitewww.screenr.com

14. Dr. Keith Hamon’s proposal and method for using Jing for Dr. Rogers’ Business class. We also used this approach for Prof. Rodd’s online Nursing students.proposal and method

15. Writing Specialist Daphnie Miller’s early Jing effort early Jing effort

16. Writing Specialist Stan McCormick – review of graduate nursing student’s thesis.graduate nursing student’s thesis

17. Writing Specialist Mary Ann Scott’s review – Prof. Jan Rodd, graduate nursing online class assignmentgraduate nursing online class assignment

18. Stephanie Cooper Coordinator, Quality Enhancement Plan Albany State University Wikis - Collaborating in the classroom and beyond!

19. What is a Wiki? A wiki is a website that allows multiple users to create, edit, and share information in an online environment. Some examples of wiki hosting sites are Google Sites, Wordpress, and PB Works. Perhaps you’ve heard of the most famous wiki of all…Wikipedia! Why would you use it for educational purposes? A wiki is a great way for you to organize your classes and to engage your students in sharing ideas and resources, which you normally don’t have time to do in the live classroom. Wikis - Collaborating in the classroom and beyond!

22. Class Wiki for Discussion Groups Math Professor Harriet Thompson used her Math 0099 class wiki to encourage dialogue between class wiki  Students and Classmates  Students and Professors

23. Student-Driven Wiki Nursing students asked the Writing.Realized. department for help with their thesis papers. The result was a wiki full of resources and an area where dialogue flows between wiki  Students – Students  Students – Professors  Students and the Writing Specialists (outside expert)

24. Faculty Learning The Writing.Realized. team conducts workshops every other week throughout the academic year. Our QEP 101 wiki serves as a "model" for how professors may create their own.wiki

25. Want to create your own class wiki? Visit this stand alone tutorial on creating wikis that was actually created in a Google Sites shell!stand alone tutorial

26. Twitter in the classroom: Enhancing Student Engagement Judith E. Rosenbaum Professor of Mass Communication Albany State University

27. Founded in 2006 Microblogging 140 characters Following/followers Use @ to address specific people Twitter

29. Participating in the microblogging community: Use of # Trending Retweeting Twitter

31. 100 million users (give or take) – not all “active” Majority of users are young adults (median = 31) Majority users age 18-29 Disproportionally popular among African Americans and Latin-Americans Majority of users have “some college” or a college degree Mobile usage (approx. 50%) (Pew Internet and American Life project, 2008, 2009, 2010; 2011; RoyMorejon, 2011) Who uses Twitter?

32. Updating people about life Real-time information – “daily chatter” People-based RSS feed Sharing information/URLs Reporting news Conversation (@) (Java et.al, 2007;Zhao & Rosson, 2009) Why do people use Twitter?

33. Brevity Mobility and pervasive access Broadcast nature (Zhao & Rosson, 2009) Twitter v. other social networks

34. Communicate important information Connect with students Twitter in the classroom

36. Facilitate classroom discussion Twitter in the classroom

38. Facilitate classroom discussion Encourage creation of Personal Learning Networks [PLNs] Twitter in the classroom

40. Facilitate classroom discussion Encourage creation of Personal Learning Networks [PLNs] Enhance ongoing discussion outside class Twitter in the classroom

42. Connectivity = professional distance Do not follow unless permission Do not retweet or comment unless professionally relevant Engagement: Tweet about interesting topics Academic but “student-proof” Ask questions, use #, extra credit Twitter etiquette for Professors

43. @DrJRA Questions?

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