1. 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.

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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
Explore

10. Wrap-up Remaining Questions Observations Discussion / Feedback
Senior Educational Technology Specialist
UIT Academic Technology