The Making of a Snapshot

Laura Gibbs-Univ. of OklahomaJane Moore-National-Louis Univ.Pam Scheibel-Univ. of Wisconsin

Learning Outcomes

Explain what is a Snapshot.Explore the possible uses of a Snapshot.Describe the steps in creation of a SnapshotCreate a Snapshot.

What is a Snapshot?

Product of the Knowledge Media Lab Part of the Carnegie Foundation

Called the “Keep Tool Kit”

Knowledge Media Lab Mission

The Carnegie Foundation’s KML helps institutions and faculty take advantage of the growing power of emerging technologies and new media to transform the knowledge implicit in effective teaching into ideas, theories, and resources that can be used widely in a variety of situations and contexts.

Goal of a Snapshot

Used to advance the Scholarship of Teaching by:

- Make teaching practice visible and public- Solicit critical peer-review- Learn and build on each other’s work

How

Enables non-technical (and busy!) faculty and students to examine, select and organize resources and artifacts and transform them into visually appealing and intellectually engaging knowledge representations with their reflections.

Early CASTL Scholars’ Sapshots

Keep Tool Kit

SoTL Project Snapshot Course Transformation Class Anatomy

Early CASTL Scholars’ Snapshots

Frameworks and prompts through “flexibly-designed” organizational templates

The MERLOT/Carnegie Project

Shared value of need for faculty to have access to quality educational materials and share their experience and reflections to collectively advance their teaching and learning.Snapshots - reflective case studiesCollection of CF e-portfolio materials in MERLOT

OVERVIEW: Snapshots in MERLOT

Snapshot

New Feature

OVERVIEW:Snapshots in MERLOT

Portal engages users in new ways Provides context for teaching and learning

OVERVIEW: The MERLOT Author Template

http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=86661244

How to Make a Snapshot

Step 1 Go to Keep tool kit web page and

register

Step 2 Log in

Step 3 This is the main page,called the dash

board.

Next Steps

Step 4 Click on New tab,click on Case Study

Template tab, Click MERLOT, click Use Template link Supply a name into the field Click submit

Step 5 You now have your blank template to use.

Step 6 Begin to add content.

Next Steps

Step 6 Make sure you save after each entry!

Editor

Next StepsDevelop your own Snapshot(s) forLearning materials cataloged in

MERLOT

Post Snapshots to MERLOT site by sending your Snapshot URL to the MERLOT webmaster. ( webmaster@merlot.org)