teaching and learning with technology in the college of arts and humanities

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Teaching and Learning with Technology in the College of

Arts and Humanities

Tuesday, February 2nd Heather Rodriguez, Academic Technology

+Points to Consider When Selecting a Technology Tool

Your end goal What teaching objective do I want to accomplish? (Ex.

facilitate collaboration among students, organize course material, etc.)

Learning Curve

Time Investment

On-Campus Support available

WILL THIS TECHNOLOGY REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO AND ENHANCE THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE?

+Common Teaching and Learning with Technology Goals

Organize and present course materials (documents, audio, video, presentations, etc.)

Record course lectures (podcasting)

Increase student participation (discussion board, blogs, collaborative authoring, social media)

Share and organize research (Zotero, social bookmarking)

+Organize and present course materials

+Record course lectures

MICROPHONE (or Webcam!) + SOFTWARE + UPLOAD to web = PODCAST

+Record course lectures (cont.)

Screencapture software (ex. Camtasia Studio) Record voice over

PowerPoint presentations Capture contents of your

screen Narrate over still

images/video clips

+Increase student participation

BLOG

WIKI

DISCUSSION BOARD/CHAT

SOCIAL MEDIA

+Share and organize research

del.icio.us

Make notes, highlight and clip web pages, save bookmarks, access/upload files from smartphone, etc.

Save bookmarks in one online location, share with friends, organize with tags

Capture and organize citation information and store PDFs

+On-Campus Resources

Academic Technology, College of Arts and Humanities http://www.arhu.umd.edu/tech/academictechnology Tools How do I…? Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/ARHUTechnology Technology Events Calendar:

http://www.humanities.umd.edu/calendar/index.php?calendar=18

Learning Technologies, Office of Information Technology http://www.otal.umd.edu

+Other Resources

EDUCAUSE: http://www.educause.edu

EDUCAUSE’s 7 Things You Should Know About… series: http://www.educause.edu/7Things

Commoncraft’s videos on technology: http://www.commoncraft.com/