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Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
Active Learning Institute
Educause Solutions in Action“Reaching and Engaging Today's Learners”
April 20, 2009Barbara Knauff, Senior Instructional Technologist
Academic Computing, Dartmouth College
Our Next Speakers:
Erin LongInstructional Designer, The Penn State University
Allan GyorkeEducation Technology Manager, The Penn State
University
The Schreyer Blogging Initiative
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
Reaching and Engaging Today’s Learner
Erin Long & Allan GyorkeThe Pennsylvania State University
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
The Schreyer Blogging Initiative
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
Problem: Tried to coordinate bi-weekly face-to-face meetings through email. Failed miserably.
• Students do not check email daily• Hard to determine scheduling • Not “immediate” enough for students involved
Solution: Facebook to the rescue!• Students admitted to checking email a few times a week• However, they check Facebook a few times an hour
The Schreyer Blogging Initiative
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
The Schreyer Blogging Initiative
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
Result: Everybody’s happy!• One place to go for information• Best to go to where the students are• Eliminates some administrative overhead• By using groups, we don’t have to “friend” students
Future Uses…• Division of Undergraduate Studies is working on making their own
group to reach incoming students.
The Schreyer Blogging Initiative
Erin Long and Allan Gyorke
Texting – replaces Web formsTwitter – immediate back channel YouTube – course work and responsesLive Question Tool – involve the students in the lecture
For more information…
Erin Long – [email protected] Gyorke – [email protected]
Other Ways to Engage…
