SLU Liberal Tech 2007, full day slides
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This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on using technology in liberal education. It discusses [1] aggregating online resources, [2] publishing content to the web, [3] using online discussion areas, and [4] incorporating multimedia such as images, audio, and video into pedagogy. The document also touches on challenges of information overload and how technology can both enhance and complicate teaching and learning.
SLU Liberal Tech 2007, full day slides
- 1. Saint Lawrence University TechFest January 2008 NITLE workshop Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
- 2. Agenda for the day 0. Introductions and overview Resource aggregation Publishing to the web Discussion areas Multimedia pedagogy Next steps
- 3. Agenda for the day (and also: *6. Mobile and wireless *7. Technology and pedagogy *8. Utopia and dystopia)
- 4. First, liberal education Inherited models Artes liberales Skills Practice, yet theory Multiplicity Literacies Multiple Productive Media vs information
- 5. Different weavings from the cloth Pure learning for learning’s sake Student-centered pedagogy Preparation for democratic citizenship Institutional typology and heritage -Jo Ellen Parker, “What’s So “Liberal” About Higher Ed?” ( Academic Commons , 2006)
- 6. Digital, not analog? Differences, enhancements Repeatability, scrubbing, segmentation, transferability Iteration User’s schedule Spatial (Murray) Procedural (“) (Desire path, Vermont, 2006)
- 7. Further affordances Social software Triangulation Presence Performance History Temporal developments Synch versus asynch (Second Life presentation audience, social and synchronous in 2007, http://flickr.com/photos/bryanalexander/2088829657/ )
- 8. Practical tendencies Timeshifts within the classroom Classroom vs. the rest of spacetime LazyWeb meets DIY Archival teaching for the professor (Middlebury College, January 2006)
- 9. Challenges What are the challenges you see or anticipate to using technology for teaching and learning?
- 10. The relief of history Early modern information overload, 1685: “ 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, Jugemens des sçavans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs (Paris, 1685)
- 11. Antecedents One response to too much information: the humble marginal annotation Glossators (Franciscus Accursius, Denis Godefroi) Then the Geneva Bible (Early English Books Online)
- 12. Another response to overload Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie (1751-1772)
- 13. Another response to overload Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie (1751-1772) (Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , 636)
- 14. I. Resource aggregation Eroding, but semiarchived ( http://archive.org ) Vast Growing Personal And public (Bookstore in Fes, Morocco, 2007)
- 15. Requirements Search (classic, Web 2.0, media, social) Aggregation (bookmarks, del.icio.us, Scholar.com, H2O) Information literacy Social aggregation, or digital citizenship
- 16. Away from the wild Web e-reserves Databases (ARTSTOR, JSTOR) The oldest information profession Zotero (Denison Library, Claremont Colleges)
- 17. Using the Web to tame the Web Social bookmarking (del.icio.us) Demonstration Hands-on Aggregating Media Podcasts YouTube Searching the live Web Technorati RSS Good, free feed readers: Bloglines, Google Reader, NetNewsWire, Gator Increasing number of feeds
- 18. II. Publishing to the web “ Web 1.0” Vast, semiarchived (archive.org) Hypertext and multimedia Enormous publication scope Needed: editor and host (Sir Tim Berners-Lee)
- 19. Many pedagogical 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
- 20. “ Web 2.0” Social software Microcontent Open Platforms
- 21. Web 2.0: blogs Public intellectual Research record Personal expression Collaborative blogs Scholarly discussion Formal and in- Emergent interest (Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College LMS conference, Reed College, 2005)
- 22. Web courseware (Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai) Class (not course) only Copyright shield (TEACH Act) Integration with e-reserves (Moodle on a Nokia 770, via Leonard Low; Martin Dougiemas, via PeskyLibrary on Flickr)
- 23. III. Online Discussion History of online discussion Discussion boards, newsgroups, etc. Listservs (SF-LOVERS, 1979ff) Asynchronous vs. Synchronous IM Chat rooms Skype chat Virtual world, gaming chat
- 24. Question: what are your best practices for online discussion?
- 25. Web 2.0 discussion areas Blogs Posts Comments On-campus and off- (“Blog-based communities,” James Farmer, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/elifishtacos/90944651/ )
- 26. Wikis History That encyclopedia Two challenges Wikis not called wikis Modes of use Discussion Annotation Collaborative writing
- 27. IV. Multimedia pedagogy Why would you do such a thing? Learning styles Active engagement Changing population New literacies Long, long tradition
- 28. Images Visualization Compositions Presentation (ppt) Social (Flickr) (Storms on Jupiter, NASA New Horizons mission)
- 29. Audio Sound objects Social sound: podcasting Embedded sound (Web, video) Synchronous: VOIP (Aaron Prevots, French, Southwestern University)
- 30. “ Podcasting”? Pedagogies Profcasting Studentcasting Public intellectual Field work
- 31. Video Video objects Social video (Web) Synchronous (Video conference)
- 32. Digital cartography Google Maps GIS Web mapping, a/k/a virtual globes Synchronous? Watch Google Platforms? Cf Twittervision (Google Maps/Flickr mashup; NASA WorldWind)
- 33. Multimedia Syntheses Presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote, Web) Media: text, images, sound, video Demonstration and Hands-On Ease of use Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf Ed Tufte) .pdf, too (from “The PowerPoint Anthology of Literature”, Daniel Radosh http://home.nyc.rr.com/dradosh/ppaol1.html )
- 34. Multimedia Syntheses Web 2.0: VoiceThread Image Voice Social Demonstration Hands-On http://voicethread.com/
- 35. Multimedia syntheses Virtual worlds Virtual reality Social-emotional bandwidth -A metaverse future
- 36. Multimedia syntheses Gaming Pedagogies (Gee, 2003ff) Learning objects Literacy Compositions ( http://swi.indiana.edu/arden/index.shtml ; Scott Osterwall, MIT, from NERCOMP presentation http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=1227 )
- 37. And text!
- 38. And text! Technologies everywhere: Web 2.0 .pdf Synchronous: chat, IM Within Second Life, gaming Nearly every digital affordance Utter comfort for most of us Third-oldest educational technology (previous slide: Ken Wark, GAM3R 7H30RY (2007) CommentPress implementation http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory/ )
- 39. V. Wrap-Up Small Groups Plan for how you can use one thing you’ve learned today Final Group Discussion
- 40. NITLE http://nitle.org Liberal Education Today http://b2e.nitle.org