Teaching and Learning with Sakai: 15 Minutes of Fame, Shame and to Frame

Teaching and Learning Sakai GroupPreconference Session, 7 July 2009

Pre-Conference Workshop Overview

• Session goal is to highlight:• Examples of how Sakai is being used to

enhance teaching and learning (Fame)• Pitfalls to avoid when using Sakai (Shame)• Conference sessions or other resources

where more can be learned (Frame)• Each presenter will have 15 minutes (firm)• Q&A “round-table” session at end

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Collaboration Across Semesters

Reba-Anna LeeAssistant Director of Academic Technology and elearning

Marist College

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FAME: Cross Semester Project Sites

• Projects sites used by two semesters of students to collaborate

• Wiki was key tool in all of the project sites

• Project Sites used as student collaborative spaces

• Two semesters worth of information was available to students

• Project Sites

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SHAME: Two miscalculations...• Use of WEB DAV tool

• Moving large chunks of course materials from old system to Sakai

• Deletion of all My Workspaces

• Association of Rosters by faculty

• Misunderstanding of the function

• Outcry by faculty

• Advice: Be aware of your “surroundings”55

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FRAME: Student Presentation

Dr. Mark Van Dyke and Marist students Presentation

What did iLearn Today? Sakai and the Net Generation

Friday July 10 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

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Using Matrices, Forms and Portfolios in K-8

Deb BoisvertMary Rubega

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FAME: 8th Grade Digital Portfolios

Sakai allowed us to • Connect artifacts to reflection• Shift the focus from showcase to reflection• Samples of student portfolios

• Tip: Meet regularly for development and for sharing you progress with wide variety of groups.

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SHAME: Publish Your Matrix

• When to publish our matrix?• Challenged by the need for a 9 year collection

span and wanting to continue to tweak.

• When we lost the matrix data we did not loose resources.

• Advice: If many people are using it, publish it!

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FRAME: Step to NHCollab Statewide

• Digital portfolios and statewide collaboration K-12 – Wednesday 2:30 - 3:00, William Dawes room

For more information contact

Deb Boisvert - dboisvert@sau53.org

Mary Rubega - mrubega@sau53.org or

Theresa Schneiderheinze - tschneiderheinze@sau53.org

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Calendar-Driver Course, First Week’s Woes, and My Hectic Schedule…

Mathieu Plourde, Project Leader, LMSUniversity of Delaware

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FAME: Calendar-Driven Course

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James Dean, Department of Englishhttp://tinyurl.com/story-dean

Use of the Schedule Tool to Sequence Learning and

Replace the Syllabus

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SHAME: First Week’s Woes

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Percentage of Faculty on Sakai@UD – Fall 2008

Expected

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Balance

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Number of Users on Sakai@UD

Don’t underestimate faculty’s willingness to change!(and do extensive load testing too…)

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FRAME: Mathieu’s Schedule

• Citizen Journalism: Ustream and Flip Video Pilots.• BOF: SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge Standards

(Wednesday @ 16:05)• Strategies to Support Your Users: Custom

Documentation and Help Files (Thursday @ 15:15)• BOF: Sakai Documentation: Discussing a Better Sharing

Strategy (Thursday @ 16:05)• An Honest Look at Sakai: What Should We Tell Potential

Adopters? (Friday @ 13:45)

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Texas State: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Whitten Smart User Services Consultant

Texas State University – San Marcos

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FAME: Podcasts

• Podcasts tool used to deliver lectures to online version of class• Instructor converted traditional course to an

online course with same expectations• Uses dates of availability feature to simulate

class lecture times• Because of podcasts the instructor chose to

look at other Sakai and technology tools

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SHAME: System Changes

• System changes made before finals resulting in system outage.• A little slow to catch on. Done not just once, but

twice.• At that time, no development environment

existed• Test, test, test

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FRAME: Faculty Stories about Sakai

• Faculty Stories about Sakai:• Wed. July 8th, 2:15-3:00, Thomas Paine

• For more information:http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu• Whitten Smart, ws15@txstate.edu

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Group Projects, Special Characters, and More About Process

Madeleine Gonin and Kate EllisTeaching and Learning Technologies Center

Indiana University Bloomington

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FAME: Group Projects

Collaborative Writing + Multimedia• web pages in Resources tool• detailed instructions provided• support from teaching center

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Student Work

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SHAME: Special Characters

• conversion to UTF-8 database• communication with faculty

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FRAME: More About Processes

• Evaluating Testing Tools: Process and Results07-08-09 16:00 Thomas Paine

• Many Hands Make Light Work: A Practical Approach to QA Testing07-09-09 14:15 Crispus Attucks

Madeleine Gonin, mgonin at indiana dot eduKate Ellis, kdellis at indiana dot edu

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Presenter Chuck Severance:Materials at dr-chuck.com

Break…

Teaching and Learning with Sakai: 15 Minutes of Fame, Shame and to Frame

Susan RoigDirector Academic Computing

Claremont Graduate University

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FAME: TWISA

• Teaching with Innovation Sakai Award• Quality not quantity of tools used - key• Sound Pedagogical approach to use of tools• Sharing of site at

http://www.openedpractices.org • Use site a reference for best practices

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FAME: Project Site Creation

• CUC population (students and faculty) each have account and access to project site creation. • Use of Sakai – student driven• Project sites developed as work groups, group

projects, clubs, department meetings• Faculty asked “will you be using Sakai in this

class?”

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SHAME: Project sites

• CUC population (students and faculty) each have account and access to project site creation. • "Sustainability Group" everyone given

maintain role instead of giving specific permissions, one member deleted entire site;• "Treasures site" confidentiality issue not

understood nor groups and permissions.

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SHAME: Guest Accounts

• Use of Sakai for international seminar, guests accounts not students • Disastrous problem with access and guest

accounts.• More time spent on access issues than on

seminar.

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FRAME: TWISA

• Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Presentations • Thursday 8:15 - 9:35 Keynote Speakers: 1st and 2nd

Award Winners• Honorable Mention – • Cherry Stewart – Thursday 13:45-14:15 Thomas Paine

Design Reflective and Interacting eLearning: Online Professional Development• Dr. Mark Van Dyke – Friday 12:30 – 1:30 Empress

Room What Did iLearn Today? Sakai and the Net Generation

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FRAME: Claremont Colleges

• Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 Sakai at the Claremont Colleges 11:00 - 12:00 Crispus Attucks

• http://sakai.claremont.edu • Susan Roig Director Academic Computing Claremont Graduate University

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Closing the Loop: Curriculum, PD, Student Artifacts, Assessment,

CurriculumSteven Foehr, Director of Application Services

Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology

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FAME: Closing the Loop

• Standards Based

• Curriculum Development

• Professional Development

• Student Artifacts

• Assessment

• Curriculum Development

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SHAME: Don’t Underestimate Change

• Change is hard:• Collaborating on assignments/curriculum• Leadership• Never enough PD• Sakai is a vehicle

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FRAME: K12 is Coming to Sakai

• What’s In It for Us? The Benefits of an Electronic Graduation Portfolio. Thursday, 9:45 AM, William Dawes.

• Digital portfolios and statewide collaboration K-12. Wednesday, 2:30 PM, William Dawes.

• RI Department of Education Office of Middle and High School Reform

• Steven Foehr: steve@staff.ri.netJuly 2009

Fame-Shame-Frame

Cherry Stewart, Educational Designer, University of New England, Australia

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Fame

• What is working for us?• Change management via 3 participatory

action-research projects • Getting online workshops (modeled on

University of Leicester Carpe Diem model) www2.le.ac.uk/projects/adelie/adelieblog/carpediemtakingstock

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Shame

• What could we do differently?• Students and staff struggle with Web 2.0

literacy• eSubmission system unavailable (my une

crash) on final due date• when something goes wrong - IT problem

solving skills regress

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Frame

• 5th Generation DE: Who’ Responsible?• Using Web technologies in Bachelor of

Nursing blended learning strategies• Reflective e-Learning: Online professional

learning for academic and support staff

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QUESTIONS?

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Outside and Inside the Box

Robin HillCoordinator of Instructional Computing

University of Wyoming

FAME: Teaching at the Fringe

Sakai has allowed teaching to take place not only outside the classroom, but:

Outside the academic calendarSome classes start a month or two early.Some classes don’t take place in any specific semester.

Outside the official rosterGuest and test students and faculty are accommodated.

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SHAME: Terminology Shock

Dropbox: Not what we expected

“Dropbox” is the name of the student-work tool in eCollege/eCompanion.

Faculty think that Sakai’s Dropbox will allow grading, marking, and return of student work…

We look forward to the emergence of standard terms in course management systems.

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FRAME: Databases and Reports for Portfolios and Other Pedagogy

Discussion: Are there teaching benefits to be realized from the recording, integration, and querying of data collected from worksite activities and constructs?

Thursday, 15:15-16:00, William Dawes RoomRobin Hill, hill@uwyo.edu

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