NITLE Workshop: Digital Teaching

Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education

Lee University, February 20, 2008Jennifer Sader & Becca Anzalone

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Workshop Overview

0. Introductions and overview1. Resource aggregation2. Web Applications3. Multimedia pedagogy4. Next Steps

What does liberal education mean to you?

How does your university’s mission embody a liberal education?

How do you use technology in the classroom?

Break

Stop and WriteCome Back at 10:30 AM

Early Modern Information Overload

“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire . . .” Adrien Baillet, Jugement de Paris, 1685

Browse to: http://del.icio.us

Our tag: NITLE_digital_teaching

Find three resources that you can use in your professional activities and tag them.

Hands-on:

RSS

• “Really Simple Syndication”• RSS Aggregators

– Google– Bloglines– Sage (for Firefox)

• RSS feed from del.icio.us

Lunch

Stop and WriteCome back at 1:00 PM

How has the web changed?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Web 1.0 Examples

• Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm

• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html

• Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/

• Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm

Searching Blogs

• Google Blog Search• Technorati

Multimedia Pedagogy

• Text• Images• Audio• Video

Multimedia Pedagogy

• Why multimedia in the classroom?

– Learning styles– Active engagement– Changing population, literacy– Long, long tradition

Finding Multimedia

Multimedia Syntheses

• Presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote)

• Media: text, images, sound, video– Demonstration and Hands-On

• Ease of use• Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf

Tufte)

Avoid Death by PowerPoint

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Break

Stop and WriteCome back at 3 PM

Small Group Discussion

How will you use what you’ve learned today?

Final Check-in

Share results of discussion

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