Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology

Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers

Edited by Robin K. Morgan and Kimberly T. Olivares

Marcia D. Dixson, Andrew D. Gavrin, Michael C. Morrone, Joan Esterline Lafuze, and Anastasia S. Morrone, Contributing Editors
Foreword by Michael A. McRobbie

Distribution: World

Publication date: 2/8/2012

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ISBN: 978-0-253-00615-8

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How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience. In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.

Author Bio

Robin K. Morgan is Professor of Psychology, Indiana University Southeast. She is editor (with Rosanne M. Cordell, Betsy Lucal, Sharon Hamilton, and Robert Orr) of Quick Hits for New Faculty (IUP, 2004).

Kimberly T. Olivares is Administrative Manager of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and editor (with M. A. Cooksey) of Quick Hits for Service-Learning (IUP, 2010).

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"Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology is a wonderful resource for educators of all academic levels and disciplines. The tips provided in these essays are tried-and-true methods for incorporating technology into today's classroom." —InSight

"An accessible and user-friendly collection of approaches, strategies, and tactics for effective instruction, developed by master teachers…I enthusiastically recommend it to you" —Michael A. McRobbie, President, Indiana University

"If [this book] encourages you to try something new, change what you are doing, evaluate in a different way, or develop a departmental collection of teaching ideas, then that alone will make it worth it." —Journal of Pedagogic Development

"The strength of the book is its practicality. It contains a wealth of good ideas for anyone interested in adding technology into their courses. Those who are getting their feet wet in online teaching would also find this book particularly illuminating. For them, this book may be a great place to start.

" —TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD

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Foreword by Michael A. McRobbie
Welcome to Quick Hits: Teaching with Technology
Introduction Student Success Is Our Mission by David J. Malik

1. Promoting Engagement
a. Promoting engagement in an online course: It can be done , but wisely!
b. Introductory poem for online course
c. Using e-rewards to promote engagement and re-engagement in the online classroom
d. YouTube reviews
e. Promoting Online courses’ student engagement and group cohesion through the use of chat-rooms
f. Using team-based learning to engage students in online courses
g. That’s why they call it YOU-Tube
h. “Reading in Context” for networked engagement with course readings
i. Scavenger hunt
j. Just-in-Time Teaching: Using the web to engage students in the classroom
k. The simple visual mapping tool for thinking aloud
l. Combining learning communities with electronic self and peer assessments to increase student engagement in discussion-based courses
m. A source for lecture launchers: Mining public media for accessible illustrations
n. “Hearing every voice:” Promoting engagement through electronic discussion
o. Creating with intentionality: Using a personal multimedia narrative to emphasize writing process
p. Designing authentic cross-class collaboration by focusing on activity
q. Using a business strategy simulation
r. Engaging students through a virtual child simulation
s. Social engagement
t. Building a sense of community in an online environment: Student autobiographical videos
u. Online Art Galleries and clinical stories
2. Providing Access
a. To podcast or not to podcast
b. Some assembly required: Teaching online with good instructions
c. The Open Source Physics Project on ComPADRE
d. Use of Team Viewer software to assist students
e. Utilizing existing gigapixel panoramas for virtual fieldtrips
f. Service-Learning at the Seal Indiana Mobile Program
g. Developing medical education teaching applications for mobile devices
h. Making technology-enhanced classroom presentations accessible to students with sensory impairments
i. Blogging in the classroom
j. Virtual Microscopy as a Real and Effective Tool for teaching Histology
k. “It’s a small world after all:” Using technology to internationalize curriculum
l. The inverted hybrid science classroom
m. The Physlet Project
n. Podcast technology self-directed for fluoride toxicity
o. Using web-based videoconferencing to extend the F2F experience to distance learners
p. University/school partnership: Using technology to collaborate with middle school writers and create more informed teachers of writing
q. Doppelganger Professor: High-touch delivery to low-density populations
3. Enhancing Evaluations
a. Google-Doc surveys for teaching Hispanic culture
b. A class wiki for the physical sciences
c. Using multiple-response clicker questions to identify student misunderstanding
d. Grading discussion forums in the online environment
e. Sometimes less is more
f. Using Prezi to produce creative critical thinking assessments
g. Information literacy: Building critical skills for learning and communicating about research on the web
h. Enhancing teaching and learning through technology
i. “Guest Cam” in the classroom- Making speeches real
j. using Personal response devices (clickers) in humanities classes
k. let students design the test
l. Personal sales pitch: Video assignment
m. Using discussion forums as a learning tool
n. Using clickers to promote participation
o. Technology-mediated feedback
p. WebQuests: a gateway activity for online teaching and learning
q. Use of SoftChalk Software to create interactive content
4. Becoming More Efficient
a. Juvenile justice Wiki Project- Constructivism through technology
b. Mitigating the workload and increasing student satisfaction with online discussion threads
c. Techiquette: the etiquette of technology
d. Prezi and the decoding of history
e. Images for education-Crime free!
f. Chats: A mess or a must?
g. Using audience response systems for classroom post-test reviews
h. Fostering e-learning discourse among professional networking groups
i. Blogging to promote robust class preparation
j. Spreadsheet modeling optimization problems
k. Using Podcasts for added instructional effectiveness
l. Implementation of and feedback on the use of a web-based homework management system
m. Group work online
n. Teaching professional communication through email
o. Coupling visual metaphors with discussion forums to enhance reflection and inquiry
p. Using technology to improve empirically based clinical practice
q. Embedded feedback in video recorded student assignments
r. Using cartoons or short movies to engage students
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