Creating and Using Innovative Technology in

Teaching

Julie Gahimer PT, HSDProfessor

Krannert School of Physical Therapy

University of Indianapolis

FLDS Student Engagement Series 2014-2015

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Topics for TodayInformation OverloadWeb 1.0., 2.0, 3.0Questions in Higher EducationToday’s Learners- The Net GenerationTeaching Challenges of UIndy FacultyBloom’s Revised TaxonomyLow Tech ResourcesWeb 2.0 ResourcesThe World is Open- Curt Bonk

AH! Too Much Stuff

34 GBAverage amount of content

Consumed daily by an American

1 millionDaily Blog posts

12 million

Daily text messages

16 billion

Facebook words posted daily

154 billion

E-mails – posted daily

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“Learning content is not as important as knowing where or who to connect to to find it.” – Graham Attwell and Jenny Hughes, 2010

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Web 1.0- “a brochure”Web 2.0- “users add value”

Web 3.0-???????

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"Thinking differently about information is going to be crucial as Web 2.0 takes off, for both teachers and learners…In the era of networking and emergent information systems, a whole new range of skills is necessary in our academic culture; the skills required to create online frameworks for collaborative, learner-led work." – Hargittai et al, 2010

"What our students understand (and that we, as teachers, seem blind to) is that the very nature of information has changed. It's changed in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, where we find it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. We live in a brand new, and dynamically rich information environment, and if we are going to reach our students in a way that is relevant to their world and their future (and ours), then we must teach them from this new information environment." -David Warlick

Questions in Higher Education

(Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007)

What is the value of participatory learning (video repositories, wikis)?

Should students be allowed to bring cell phones, ipods, MP3 players to class?

How do we assess the quality of on-line education?

Should students be able to utilize wikipedia/scholarpedia as information resources?

Questions in Higher Education (Chronicle of Higher Education,2007)

How can we best utilize on-line collaboration tools such as Skype and Google talk for educational purposes?

How can we make educational use of virtual reality in academics?

Can learning occur in cafes and pubs?Does learning really exist in one’s own hands?

Fun Facts About Learning80% of us are visual learners11% of us are auditory learners9% of us are kinesthetic learnersIf content is presented 1X ,in 30 days

the retention will be 10%If content is presented 6X, in 30 days

the retention will be 90%

Who is the Net Generation?Born in or after 19828 out of 10 say it is

cool to be smartHave a fascination

with new technologiesDigitally literateMobile

Always connected to their social network

ExperientialCrave interactivityVisual spatial skillsParallel processingAttentional

deployment

Interesting Facts about the Net GenerationBy the age of 21:

◦10,000 hours of videogames◦200,000 e-mails◦20,000 hours of TV◦10,000 hours of cell phone use◦Less than 5,000 hours of reading

Concerns Related to the Net Get

Short attention spansChoose not to pay attentionReflection not often valuedSource qualityText literacy

How are Net Gen students different than the old time professors?

Ctl-alt-del is as basic as ABCComputers have always fit in their

backpacksGas has always been unleadedAre comfortable composing documents

on-line and not long handMemory has been turned over to hand

held devicesConstantly connected

9 Strategies for Dealing with Today’s LearnersFocus on “You”Love your audienceFill in the blanksTell a storyProvide easy navigationMake it visualStay short and sweetWrite a recipe

Remember our Students Have Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)

Linguistic- “word smart”Logical- mathematical

“number/reasoning smart”Spatial- “picture smart”Bodily-kinesthetic “body smart”Musical- “music smart”Interpersonal -“people smart”Intrapersonal- “self smart”Naturalist- “nature smart”

Top 5 Teaching and Learning Challenges from UIndy Faculty

20101. How can I engage and motivate

students as well as keep things interesting?

2.How can I create active learning strategies and get student’s attention to accomplish course goals?

3.How can I assess true learning?4.How can I create effective learning

objectives?5.How can I manage my time when there

is so much content?

How Do I Determine What Tools to Use?

Low Risk High Risk

Time

Student Centered

Cost

Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

1950’s 1990’s - Digital

Web 2.0 Tools and Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Key Terms

Low Tech ResourcesHandoutsOverhead projectorsSticky Note ChartsBlack/White BoardsVideotapes/CD’sSlides

Web 2.0 Tools for Classrooms1. Animoto (Free video-creation software)2. Diigo (Free digital library)3. Doodle (Free Meeting Planner)4. Google Drive (Docs, Presenter, UIndy

license)5. Piktochart (Free infographic creator)6. Slideshare (Free slide presentations)7. Skype (Free communication tool)8. Vocaroo (Free audio feedback too)9. Voicethread (Free narration interactive

tool, UIndy license)

A web application that produces videos from photos, video clips and music

By November 2009, 1 million users had registered at Animoto.

iPhone application has been installed 300,000 times

Two million Facebook users have used the Animoto Facebook application.

Online Course IntroductionsCan make a PowerPoint

Presentation and save each slide as jpeg and then up load to Animoto

https://animoto.com/play/Fkvjl6xLRK55KfULWMq9zA

Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff

Social Bookmarking website that allows users to bookmark and tag websites.

Allows users to highlight or add a sticky note to a page

Annotations are private or publicCan create groupshttps://www.diigo.com/user/jgahimer

Easy schedulingFree of charge and without

registrationAs easy as: Create a poll, invite

participants, and confirm the date and time

How to use Doodlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=KR8QLDSba7s (6:18)

A file storage and synchronization service created and managed by Google

It allows users to store documents in the cloud, share files and edit documents with collaborators.

Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Sheets and Slides that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more.

Launched on April 24, 2012, 240 million monthly active users as of October 2014

https://docs.google.com/a/uindy.edu/document/d/1wXxDUaeqw_TzNgYr-KH8tmUXvg3C2lstmBqlCQHzufg/edit

With Your FREE Account You Can:Create professional infographics, reports,

presentations, postersChoose from over 4,000 graphics, icons

and templatesUse our extensive image library or upload your

ownUnlimited customisation to make your

content uniquePublish your creation online or print out

within minuteshttps://

magic.piktochart.com/output/2884175-untitled-infographic

A proprietary Voice Over IP Service

Released in 2003

The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet.

Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010.

A Web 2.0 based slide hosting service

Users can upload files privately or publicly as Powerpoint or PDF documents

Similar to YouTube, but for slideshows

Launched on October 4, 2006

http://www.slideshare.net/jgahimer/edit_my_uploads

VocarooA premier voice recording serviceLet’s try it out!http://vocaroo.com/

Tool for having conversations and discussion around media, such as a presentation, video or image.

You can upload images, documents, and videosYou can add narration and vocal commentary

to create an audio/visual presentation https://voicethread.com/new/myvoice/#

thread/6486550/33637172/35002034http://voicethread.com/new/myvoice/#

thread/6507933/33799327https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#

thread/6509816/33766552/35157477

The World is Open Curtis J Bonk2009

WE-ALL-LEARN FRAMEWORKCurtis Bonk (2009)• Web Searching in the World of e-Books • E-Learning and Blended Learning • Availability of Open Source and Free Software • Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare • Learning Object Repositories and Portals • Learner Participation in Open Information

Communities • Electronic Collaboration • Alternate Reality Learning • Real-Time Mobility and Portability • Networks of Personalized Learning

Opener#1 Web Searching in the World of e-Books

E-Books: • Simulations, study aids,

dictionaries, games, hyperlinks to the Web, multimedia, student authoring tools, enhanced data searching capabilities, email, discussion forums, and evaluation tools

Opener #2 E-Learning and Blended Learning

K-12 E-Learning: • Many states require students to take one

or several online classes to pass high school

Higher Education E-Learning: • University of Illinois at Springfield and the

University of Central Florida now offer many of the exact same courses in face-to-face, blended, and fully online formats. Students select the delivery mode

Opener #3 Availability of Open Source and Free Software

Free and Open Source Course Management Systems: • Moodle and Sakai are free and

open source options• As of February 10, 2009, there

were 620,000 registered users of Moodle from 204 countries speaking 78 languages.

Opener #4 Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare

OpenCourseWare: MIT (1,890 online courses) Hundreds of other universities

and other organizations are placing their courses online

Opener #5 Learning Object Repositories and Portals

Learning Portals Digital museums and countless digital libraries Free dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses Open Access Journals

◦ Public Library of Science (PLoS) free peer reviewed scientific journals in healthcare

◦ Scivee- allows users to hear or see the scientist explain the research in “pubcasts”

Online Sharing Communities: Connexions- All ages-from Rice UniversityMerlot- Higher Education- contains more than

20,000 free learning contents (many peer reviewed)Curriki- free K-12 content

Opener #6 Learner Participation in Open Information Communities

Shared Online Video

Millions of freely available educational videos in You Tube Edu, TeacherTube, Big Think, NomadsLand, Current TV, Link TV, Howcst, Wonderhowto, Google Video, CNN video and BBC Audio and Video.

Stanford, MIT and Berkeley have their own You Tube and iTunes U channels

Matt Harding dances around the world and becomes of teacher of geography 2008, 22 million views

Lee LeFever’s “In Plain English”videos from Common Craft have been viewed millions of times

Scribd is the YouTube of Text documents Wikis: Wikipedia (10 millions pages of content in more than

250 languages) Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikitionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks

Opener #7 Electronic Collaboration

Guest Experts on Demand:

Webcam can be used for text chat, online discussion forums, interactive videoconferencing (Skype, Google Talk)

Google offers Google Groups and Google Docs

Opener #8 Alternate Reality Learning

Virtual Worlds:

Medical schools and hospitals are conducting simulations and other instructional activities that previously were extremely expensive.

Opener #9 Real-Time Mobility and Portability

Mobile LearningOn a global basis, there are 60,000 new

mobile subscriptions every hour720,000 more people who can learn

online each day and tens of millions more people each month

Oklahoma Christina University giving away both an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and an Apple Macbook laptop to incoming students.

Opener #10 Networks of Personalized Learning

Online Language Learning

Foreign Languages via Livemocha, ChinesePod, Spanish Pod, Mixxer, KanTalk, Ecpod (many are free).

TEC-VARIETY- Motivating and Retaining Learners Online (Bonk, 2014)

T- Tone/Climate: Psychological safety, comfort, sense of belonging

E- Encouragement: feedback, responsiveness, praise, supports

C-Curiosity: surprise, intrigues, unknownsV-Variety: novelty, fun, fantasyA-Autonomy: choice, control, flexibility, opportunitiesR-Relevance: meaningful, authentic, interesting I- Interactivity: collaborative, team-based,

communityE-Engagement: effort, involvement, investmentT-Tension: challenge, dissonance, controversyY- Yielding Products: goal driven, purposeful vision,

ownership

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“New ways of sharing content online are blurring the boundaries between creative production and consumption, through practices such as commenting, reviewing, re-purposing, re-tweeting, media meshing. Education needs to respond by focusing on creative collaboration.” – Beetham et al, 2009

Helpful Resources for Teaching and Learning

35th Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, November 2015

Tomorrow’s Professor e-Newletter- Rick Reis

EducauseFaculty Focus- Maryellen WeimerScholarship of Teaching and

Learninghttp://josotl.indiana.edu/

ReferencesBonk CJ. The World is Open: How Web

Technology is Revolutionizing Education. Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint. 2009.

Bonk CJ. Khoo E. Adding some TEC-Variety: 100 Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online. Open World Books, Bloomington, IN 2014

Fink LD. Creating Significant Learning Experiences, An Integrated Approach for Designing College Courses. Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, 2013