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Five Easy Technologies to Enhance Your Courses
Dr. Mark Morton
Centre for Teaching Excellence
University of Waterloo
www.markmorton.ca
Learning Outcomes for this Workshop
After this workshop you will be able….
to explain the basic functionality of each of these tools
to identify which technologies are most relevant to your teaching practice
to describe how you might use a given technology to enhance your students’ learning experience
to locate additional resources for those technologies that you want to learn more about.
What this workshop won’t do
Get into the specifics of how to use these tools (e.g. how to set up a clicker receiver, how to adjust audio in Camtasia, etc., how to install CmapTools, etc.)
CTE has other resources to learn those details
What you’ll be doing in this workshop
Listening (to learn about the functionality of the tools) Thinking (about how those tools can be used effectively) Sharing (your ideas)
A Warm-Up Exercise
Question Facilitation Tools: Google Moderator
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Question Facilitation Tools: Google Moderator
Question Facilitation Tools: Google Moderator
Question Facilitation Tools: Google Moderator
How can Google Moderator enhance your students’ learning experience?
Encourages “shy” students to ask questions in class
You can see which questions are of most interest to the greatest number of students
You can “vet” the questions before responding to them
You have a record of students question which, if you want, you can respond to outside of class time (e.g. in the Learning Management System)
Classroom Engagement Tools: Clickers
What does it do? What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Classroom Engagement Tools: Clickers
Classroom Engagement Tools: Clickers
How can Clickers enhance your students’ learning experience?
Clickers can make your class time more engaging: sustains student interest
Leverages Peer Instruction The best way to learn something is to teach someone else
Overcomes “expertise bias”
Use clickers to get a sense of whether students are “getting it”
Use them to ensure that students come to class fully prepared.
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
Social Bookmarking Tools: Diigo
How can you use Diigo to enhance your students’ learning experience?
Create a Diigo group for your students at the beginning of a term, and have them collaborate over the term on populating it with annotated resources
Students can individually use Diigo to help organize and track web resources
Diigo can support Learning Communities
Screencasting Tools: Camtasia
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Screencasting Tools: Camtasia
How can Camtasia (Screencasting) enhance your students’ learning experience?
Create screencasts with remedial content for students who lack prerequisite knowledge
Use screencasts to “flip” your classroom: deliver content via screencasts outside of class, so that in-class time can be reserved for active learning and peer instruction activities
Students can view screencasts as many times as they need to
Screencasts are beneficial for students whose first language isn’t the language of instruction (repeated viewings and captioning)
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
Concept Mapping Tools: CmapTools
How could you have your students use concept mapping in your course?
For a given lecture or unit, give them a list of terms, and have them create a concept map from them.
For a given lecture or unit, give them an unfinished concept map (lines and nodes with no labels) and have them determine what labels to add
For a given lecture or unit, have them collaborate on creating a concept map
Have them create a concept map over the course of a whole term that charts their growing knowledge of the discipline
Give them an “incorrect” concept map, and have them identify the errors.
Resources Google Moderator
CTE Teaching Tip on Google Moderator
Resources and tutorials from Google
Piazza Resources and tutorials from Piazza
A YouTube video on Piazza
Clickers CTE Teaching Tip on Clickers
CTE Teaching Tip on Peer Instruction
Top Hat A YouTube video on Top Hat
Resources and tutorials from Top Hat
Diigo A CTE Teaching Tip on Diigo
A YouTube video on Diigo
Camtasia CTE Teaching Tip on Camtasia
CTE Teaching Tip on Screencasting
CmapTools CTE Teaching Tip on Concept Mapping
Tools
A YouTube video on CmapTools
Five Easy Technologies to Enhance Your Courses
Dr. Mark Morton
Centre for Teaching Excellence
University of Waterloo
www.markmorton.ca
Question Facilitation Tools: Piazza
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Question Facilitation Tools: Piazza
How can Piazza enhance your students learning experience?
It empowers students: they collaborate on developing answers to their own questions
It leverages peer instruction: The best way to learn something is to teach someone else
Overcomes “expertise bias”
Students get just-in-time responses to their questions, usually within a few minutes.
Question Facilitation Tools: Top Hat
What does it do? (Mark’s verbal description – participants should take notes here!)
Question Facilitation Tools: Top Hat
Question Facilitation Tools: Top Hat
What are the relative merits of Top Hat versus Clickers?
Clickers have one purpose: to collect responses (they don’t have other “distractions” built into them)
Clickers are cheap (not all students can afford a mobile device, which is needed to use Piazza)
Students never forget their smartphones but they might forget to bring their clickers
Top Hat allows you to ask a wider variety of questions
Top Hat seems more “hip” than clickers
With Top Hat, each student can interact with simulations and animations
Top Hat facilitates students asking their own questions