Using Technology to its Best Advantage
Alisa Cooper
Day 2 - 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
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Technology becomes critical in the blended course. Regardless of how you choose to use it, careful consideration should be given to the benefit, instructional or non-instructional purpose, and contribution to the classroom, blended, or online component. In this session, you will be given activity options based on your needs and interests such as technology tour, technology consultation, and mapping and aligning course objectives, activities and assignments with technology. (No Slides)
Technology Tour and maybe 1 minute sharing of favorite technology (60 min)
Thinking About What I Want to Do
Technology Tour
- Construct Knowledge
- Blogs (Posterous/Wordpress ENG101, ENG102, ENH295)
- Shared Docs (TitanPad)
- Discussion Boards (CreateDebate)
- Support Interaction
- Social Bookmarking (Diigo)
- Chat (TinyChat, Envolve)
- Social Media (Facebook/Twitter)
- Online Collaboration (Vyew, Mikogo, Stixy)
- Feedback & Assessment
- Online Collaboration (Skype, Adobe ConnectNow)
- Social Media (Facebook/Twitter)
- Chat (TinyChat, UStreamTV)
- Google Docs
- Present Material
- Posterous/Wordpress ENG101, ENG102, ENH295
- Mobile
- Podcasts (Video & Audio)
- Softchalk
- Jing & Camtasia Studio
- YouTube
- Practice
- Cloud Storage (Dropbox/Google Docs)
- Softchalk
- Student Blogs/Presentations
- Textbook Supplemental Site (ConnectComposition+)
Technology and Mapping Consulting or Project Time: Veronica, Alisa, Patricia (30 min)
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