Andrew Wright, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of CIS

andrew.wright@louisville.edu

louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01

Using Technology to Improve Upon Your Best Teaching Practices

Alternate Title

Tegrity, Twitter, and Facebook!Oh my!

Using Technology to Improve Upon Your Best Teaching Practices

ObjectivesParticipants will:

discuss different types of technology that can be used to engage students in learning and dialogue

apply these ideas to their teaching context and practice

examine the advantages and challenges these technologies present

As we go through the presentation, feel free to share your own experiences using these (and other technologies)

At the end of our session, I’ll ask you to share which techniques you think you’d like to try and why

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OverviewStudent EngagementTegrityClickers 2.0YouTubeFacebookTwitterPrivacyBlackboardPurdueYour Turn!

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Student engagement

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“Student engagement is perhaps the key element for almost any learning context. When engaged, learners are enthusiastic and excited about the subject. Their work is informed by the enjoyment of discovery. Engaged learners work willingly, instead of by coercion, and approach their assignments as something that matters to them personally. The spirit engendered by engaged learners in a course is infectious, spreading among and sustaining all participants. It follows that devising techniques, supported by technology, to capture, retain, and sustain student engagement should be at the forefront of course design.”

Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).

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Student engagement

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Students are more engaged when:they are knowledge creators and not just knowledge

receiversthere is a feeling of producing work for a wider audiencethere are alternative venues for expressionthere is a sense of a learning community

Technology can help with all of these!Digital media project that gets put on YouTubeFacebook group where students in your class may connect

with one another (and you) beyond classroom interactionUsing a blog for journaling about their studies and discoveriesCreating a repository of guest speaker videosAnd many more!

Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).

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Tegrity is UofL’s class capture tool, though recordings can be made just about anywhere

In summer 2008, ATC recommended Tegrity and IT agreed to fund

Soft rollout in Fall 2008 with wider adoption beginning Spring 2009

Summer 2009, UofL wins Rapid Response Award at Tegrity Users Conference

Spring 2010, UofL hosts the Tegrity Users Conference and Gale Rhodes receives the President’s Award

What is Tegrity?

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Why class capture?

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Teachers speak an average of 120 words per minuteStudents write an average of 20 words per minuteStudents must decide whether to write or listen

Time elapsed

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Why Tegrity?

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Tablet PC for Annotations

Voice Recorder Only Instructor VideoDemonstrations

Easy capture – no change in teaching methods required to use

Capture, Store, Index with click of a button

Three buttons: Start, Pause, Stop

OPTIONS

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Review anywhere, anytime

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Enhanced Audio or Video Podcast

Mobile Access

PC Browser

Mac Browser

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Example

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http://tegr.it/y/246c

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Tegrity usage at UofL

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In one-year period from Fall 2008 – Summer 2009Had over 35,000 hours of online viewing of Tegrity sessionsHad over 27,000 downloads made to iPods, MP3 players and

other devicesHad over 2,500 recordings made available, representing

more than 2,100 hours of class sessions and supplementsAs of 7/15/2010

Had over 88,000 hours of online viewing of Tegrity sessionsHad over 100,000 downloads made to iPods, MP3 players

and other devicesHad over 7,000 recordings made available, representing

more than 6,000 hours of class sessions and supplementsUsage continues to grow

Viewing increased by 64% in Spring 2010 compared to Fall 2009

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Can Tegrity be used toincrease engagement?

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If I record all of my class sessions, won’t students stop coming to class?It all depends on what you do in the

classroom!Our experience with Tegrity suggests that

how you conduct your class makes all the difference

If your teaching style is more passive and lecture-based Students might find reviewing a class

recording equally as informative as attending class

If your teaching style is more interactive Students will probably find that class

recordings are not equivalent to the in-class experience

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Can Tegrity be used toincrease engagement?

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See TUC 2010 Student Panel in iTunes Uhttp://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/

louisville.edu.1455575780.01455575784 Michelle – "Before Tegrity was used in classrooms, I

was too busy taking notes to actually listen to and understand the professor’s lecture. Now, knowing that I can rely on Tegrity outside of the classroom, I am much more engaged in the lecture in the classroom and I don’t bother taking notes. After each class, I review the lecture in Tegrity and take any notes that are necessary. Before Tegrity, taking classes was more just an exercise in getting the A. Now, I can actually understand the material and be engaged in the classroom, and get the A. Tegrity allows me to be a much more effective student."

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If this isn’t engagement, what is?

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Jeanne - “Tegrity is an amazing educational tool. I wish all my professors were required to use Tegrity. Tegrity is what made the difference between facing a failing grade, and turning that grade into a B. A few weeks after the start of the semester, my son suddenly became ill, and spent over a week in the [hospital]. I hadn’t left his side for three days, nor would I while steady streams of specialists were visiting him. After he was stabilized… I started to think about the world outside of the hospital. Among those thoughts was the sudden realization that I was horribly behind in my computer programming class, and the withdrawal deadline had past.

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If this isn’t engagement, what is?

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Jeanne - “After a brief moment of panic, I called and had my books and laptop brought to the hospital. For the next few days, I would put in my ear buds and play the Tegrity sessions, while my son slept in his hospital bed. Even after my son was out of the hospital, sometimes my mind was not entirely focused on class lectures. Tegrity is invaluable for clarifying lecture notes. One of my favorite features is the ability to add my own bookmarks and comments while the session is playing. This allows me to review selected portions before completing an assignment or while studying for a test. With hard work and determination, I was able to successfully complete the semester, but I could not have accomplished that without Tegrity.”

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TegrityBookmarks

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Students can addcomments or marksections that areimportant or unclear

Can also send linkdirectly to theselocations

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TegrityConnect

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Real-timechat fromwithin Tegrity

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Tegrity iPhone App

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Tegrity settings put you in charge

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Tegrity techniques

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Full class captureSupplemental recordings

Problem sets/solutionsHow-to demos

Guest speakersUse of tablet, SmartBoard,

Sympodium for annotation and equations, diagrams

Audio only – MP3 and WMA

inputIncorporation of document

camera sources, microscope output, webcam video

Student recordingsGrading sessions

Record to private course and send student the link to recording

Tegrity Connect – live chatExamples online at: http://louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01/presentations/tegrity-examples.html

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Clickers can add engagement but…

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Students have to buy them, and remember to bring them to class, and have a working battery, etc.

They all seem to have cell phones with them at all times…

And they seem quite adept at texting on them…So, why don’t we let them use their cell phones to

participate in polls in class?We can!!!And we will in this session!

There are many tools available online that allow you to set up polls that use text messaging but I’m going to use PollEverywhere

How To Vote via Texting

1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)2. We have no access to your phone number3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

TIPS

EXAMPLE

How To Vote via Poll4.com

Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling doTIP

EXAMPLE

Tegrity Poll

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Poll Everywhere Plans

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What about YouTube?

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One way to use YouTube is simply by linking to relevant videos on the siteSometimes, can make a point far more effectively with

a videoThe Machine is Us/ing Us, Did You Know 3.0, Did You Know 4.0Selective Attention Test

There is an EDU area in YouTube: youtube.com/eduDon’t forget the Research Channel

Another way is as an outlet for student projectsInstead of always having students write a term paper, I

let them choose more creative outlets including digital media projects

Security Video Contest Winners – my students participated but didn’t win

YouTube Poll

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Why is everyone talking about Facebook?

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Students (and everyone else, it seems) spend a lot of time using FacebookAccording to the

Pearson Social Media Survey 2010, just over 80% of surveyed faculty are social media users and 30% use social media to connect to students (with FB leading the way)

LinkedIn is for professional networking but far fewer use it

Facebook reports more than 500 million users, with 50% of active users logging in dailyOver 200 million users access through mobile

devices70% of Facebook users are outside the United StatesMore than one million developers and entrepreneurs

from more than 180 countries

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How can I use Facebook for class?

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Break down barriers between you and your students and get to know each other (virtually)

Need to have an account first!Should I use a separate profile? Probably

Unless you are a FB privacy ninja, it can be hard to keep track of which group/list can see what items… Oops, I just let my students see my drunken Vegas pics!

That said, I don’t use a separate profileStudents that friend me (I don’t initiate friending of

students) get to see some of my personality I don’t mind them seeing that I like obscure Japanese

anime or the Louisville AIDS Walk or a random post about my parents’ health

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How can I use Facebook for class?

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Set up separate groups for each of your classesThe new Group settings make it easy to

selectively share information with a set of peopleSupports group chat, docs (a shared notepad), and

mailing list notificationsEasy to add new group from FB left

navigation barI’ve set up a

FB group for this Dine and Discover sessionI’ve added some resources already and I hope you

all will join me and add some moreAt start of semester, publish URL and invite

students to join upRemind them about privacy settings!

Schaffhauser, Diane. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October 2010).

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How can I use Facebook for class?

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Set up an icebreaker in your class’ FB groupGive them a format with specific questions

you want to see but also let them share their personality

Study group organizerSuggest that students post to the class FB

group page when they are looking for some help

Reflections on learningInformal reflections, not for assessment

(don’t confuse with Blackboard!)Virtual office hoursShout-outs!

Schaffhauser, Diane. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October 2010).

Facebook Profile Poll

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What is Twitter?

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Twitter is a microblogging site – each post (or tweet) is a maximum of 140 charactersPart blog, part social networking site, part cell

phone/IM tool“After creating an account, you can personalize

your profile page and enter tweets into a text field. Unless your tweets are protected, they appear on a “public timeline” page, which displays all public tweets in reverse chronological order, like a series of “micro-blogs.” Each tweet identifies the Twitterer, whose screen name links to that person’s profile page, showing all of her previous tweets and her friends’ tweets.”

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How might I use Twitter for class?

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As with Facebook, might want to have separate account to follow your students’ tweets

Learn the Twitter shorthand@username: creates a link to that user in

your postRetweet: to copy someone else's post in a

new update#hashtag: helps to organize your tweets into

categories for easier searchingGetting started with Twitter (video)

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How might I use Twitter for class?

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UT-Dallas, The Twitter Experiment – use in large lectures to engage more students in discussion

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How might I use Twitter for class?

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Have students tweet about things that they find related to class topicsNews items, blog posts, etc.Suggest #hashtags to organize

#InfoSec, #Database, etc.Can help create a learning community

Have students follow leaders in their discipline@BillGates, @jack_welch, @fastcompany, @timoreilly

Tweet about your experiences while at a conferenceSome conferences have setup #tags, such as #EDUCAUSE10

Teach literature?Have class tweet in character for a day

Teach a foreign language?Have students follow some native speakers to learn (see @

iVenus)

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How might I use Twitter for class?

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David Green summarizes his use of Twitter:“I typically send a discussion ‘tweet’ each

week, read and summarize students' responses, and begin the following class with a thirty-minute group discussion in which I incorporate the students' responses (Table 2).” – A Dialogue for Engagement

Twitter Account Poll

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Should I have privacy concerns?

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Privacy should be a real concern for users of social networking sitesFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – “People have really gotten

comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.”

We talk about privacy extensively in our first course for CIS majorsLearn the privacy settings yourself and lead by example

FERPA raises many questions“Should graded or optional work be posted on public sites? May

peers post feedback on other students’ work? Is it acceptable to leave any kind of evaluative comments on public sites containing student work? Should access to student work be limited to those in the course? The answers to these questions may vary by institution, but FERPA places the burden of ensuring the privacy of the education record on the institution.”7 Things You Should Know About Privacy in

Web 2.0 Learning Environments, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?

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Blackboard would seem the best spot for primary course content and assessment activitiesClear boundaries between professional and personalFewer issues with privacy concerns

Blackboard does offer some tools for the Web 2.0-curious instructor within its wallsCurrently, UofL is using a third-party tool (Learning

Objects’ Campus Pack) to provide blogs and wikisNew version of Blackboard has built-in support but (as I

understand it), we are sticking with current tools until contract is up

Delphi offers Getting Started guides for using blogs and wikis

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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?

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Blogs in Blackboard are often used for personal reflection (private journals) and community discussionsMay set up in any content areaMay also set up a course-level blog used by

instructor to communicate with classThink Announcements with student comments

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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?

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The Wikipedia article on Wikis suggests:“Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within

the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons.

Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.

A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.”

Wikis in Blackboard are often used with team projectsMembers of the team collaborate to produce online siteAlso empowers the instructor with assessment details such as

student submissions and percentage of participation within the group

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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?

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New version of Blackboard makes it easier to incorporate YouTube, Flickr, and SlideShare content into your courseFind under Build Content, MashupsCan embed video directly in content area as

below

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How Purdue is doing IT

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Purdue is going beyond just using tools and has started creating them

HotseatLets students to comment on a class and

then enables other participants to view those messages

Students can use their Twitter, Facebook or MySpace accounts to post the messages or use the Hotseat Web directly

MixableLets students create online study groups and

participate in them from within FacebookAlso lets users sync and share documents via

Dropbox

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Your turn!

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What are some ways you are using technology to increase engagement and improve upon your best teaching practices?

Which of these techniques do you think you might incorporate?

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References and Resources

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Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).

7 Things You Should Know About YouTube, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

7 Things You Should Know About Facebook II, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

Pearson Social Media Survey 2010Schaffhauser, Dian.

The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October 2010).

7 Things You Should Know About Twitter, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

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References and Resources

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Walsh, K. 100 Ways to Teach with Twitter, EmergingEdTech.

7 Things You Should Know About Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

Orlando, John. Using Polling and Smartphones to Keep Students Engaged.

McCrea, Bridget. Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom. Campus Technology (November 18, 2009).

Kolowich, Steve. Mixing Work and Play on Facebook. Inside Higher Ed (October 6, 2010).

Schaffhauser, Dian. Purdue Students Hook into Facebook for Study Groups. Campus Technology (October 5, 2010).

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References and Resources

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Boyd, Danah. Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).

7 Things You Should Know About Lecture Capture, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

Sample, Mark. A Framework for Teaching with Twitter. ProfHacker (August 16, 2010).

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References and Resources

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Rheingold, Howard. Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).

Hodges, Charles. If You Twitter, Will They Come?. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2 (2010).

Forty-five Percent of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder Survey Finds, CareerBuilder.com (August 19, 2009).

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Netiquette

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FacebookA Practical Facebook Etiquette GuideFacebook

faux pas: The geek's guide to netiquetteTwitter

Nine Essentials of Twitter EtiquetteComplete Guide to Twitter Etiquette

E-mailNetM@nners.com

Blast from the past!Virginia Shea's 1994 book Netiquette is a classic