July
20
December
5
IMHE “What Works” Conference, Managing Quality Teaching in Higher Education
(Mexicali, Mexico – 5-6 December 2011)
My teaching and learning in the cloud presentation.
slides – http://prezi.com/yyzcr9_btox6/teaching-learning-in-the-cloud/
tools – http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/14/tools-i-use-to-enhance-my-instuction-to-engage-online-learners/
example: technology-enhanced course – http://ualbany.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=140 – enter with guest access
handout/links: http://etap640.edublogs.org/2010/10/07/teaching-in-the-cloud/
selected links for the presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/alexandrapickett
http://www.youtube.com/alexandrapickett#p/c/16B1004AC945748C
http://etap640.edublogs.org/
http://groups.diigo.com/group/ETAP687
http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/31/2011-course-review-screencasts/
http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/10/learning-activities-feedback-2/
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1106177
my questions to the group:
how do you support teaching innovation at your institution?
what are the difficulties/challenges in supporting teaching innovation at your institution?
how do you overcome these difficulties/challenges?
how do you catalyze change? what motivates faculty? what incentives are there?
how do you keep current with innovative instruction, change, technology?
how do you decide what technologies/initiatives to adopt?
how do you scale and sustain such initiatives?
how do you maintain/insure quality, security, safety, etc.
what are the costs? are they free like “beer”, or free like “puppy”?
My responses to these questions, for example:
http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/ – Join!
twitter example:
submission form – http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/page/share-what-you-know
white paper – http://issuu.com/alexandrapickett/docs/what-i-know1v1?mode=embed&viewMode=presentation&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fgrass%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
workshop – http://prezi.com/qlrwf_cuenc1/powerful-uses-of-twitter/
group to continue discussion/sharing – http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/group/twitter
July
14
eduMOOC 2011 – Online Learning Today… Tomorrow
Intro: what i do
My digital footprints: http://bit.ly/mTQBIt
My work: http://slidesha.re/ppIpE1 and http://sln.suny.edu
My team: http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/display/SLNED/*about
Work bio: http://slneducation.edublogs.org/about/ and http://etap640.edublogs.org/about-2/
My faculty hat: http://bit.ly/o1bpVT and http://www.albany.edu/etap/iotl.htm
My community: http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/ – JOIN!
The role online technologies can have in online learning
http://bit.ly/teachinginthecloud
* facilitate more engaging collaboration and interaction
* provide more engaging feedback
* make me more effective/efficient
* criteria: better faster safer easier or cheaper
How do you engage online learners ?
My teaching: http://prezi.com/yyzcr9_btox6/teaching-learning-in-the-cloud/
About my course: http://etap640.edublogs.org/2010/10/07/teaching-in-the-cloud/
My tools: http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/14/tools-i-use-to-enhance-my-instuction-to-engage-online-learners/ and http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/01/22/top-10-cooltools-for-2011/
(voicethread) enhancing content presentation and interaction: social presence/class community
Ice breaking activity: http://voicethread.com/share/1991825/
(microblogging: twitter) content presentation: social presence, teaching presence, engagement, interaction, microlearning/blogging
https://twitter.com/#!/etap640
Engage students in personally driven professional development, community of practice, affinity groups. Reaching out to and engaging in self directed passion driven professional development.
About twitter: http://issuu.com/alexandrapickett/docs/what-i-know1v1?viewMode=presentation
(social bookmarking: diigo) enhancing student engagement: student-generated content, shared resources, social bookmarking
http://groups.diigo.com/group/ETAP687
We co-create a shared annotated bibliography of resources that persist beyond the end of the term.
Makes me more effective and efficient in providing feedback.
- My professional development and community of practice: http://twitter.com/alexpickett plus diigo: http://groups.diigo.com/group/slnonline and http://www.diigo.com/user/alexandrapickett
- About twitter: http://issuu.com/alexandrapickett/docs/what-i-know1v1?viewMode=presentation
- http://etap640.edublogs.org/2009/05/15/my-criteria-for-evaluating-whom-to-follow-on-twitter/
(blogs: edublogs) reflection and metacognitive journaling: developing a public voice, presence and contributing to the read/write web and social discourse
To establish an online presence: for academic and professional purposes
To contribute to and engage in academic and professional public discourse
My current students’ blogs: http://www.netvibes.com/alexandrapickett#ETAP640_-_summer_2011
My blog grading rubric: http://etap640.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/reflections-blog-post-grading-rubric/
(screencasting: jing) enhanced and engaging feedback and makes me more effective and efficient in providing feedback, examples:
- http://www.screencast.com/t/whCXu3oj4b – feedback.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/gvb43kilynw – response to question and how to instructions.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/P8rpgTNt1O – clarification.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/hhrJp3h2 – instructions.
(podcasting: audacity and podomatic) engaging audio feedback
http://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/10/learning-activities-feedback-2/
http://alexandrapickett.podomatic.com/
http://www.podomatic.com/playlist/alexandrapickett/412413
engaging presentation of content, feedback, interaction
video: YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16B1004AC945748C
My community: http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/ – JOIN!
April
27
the POWER of the social web
1. Where do YOU LEAVE your digital FOOT PRINTS ?
2. Lots of variety of things to do, explore, and experience.
3. Social – friendships,
4. Finding and exploring affinity with others. Connecting & sharing interests.
5. Skillz* Developing technical skills necessary to participate in the 21st century.
6. World is at your fingertips. Knowledge and Answers are available anywhere/everywhere/anytime.
7. Learning from experts. Access to experts.
8. Access & opportunity to connect with your “rockstars”
9. Not just consumers -& not just about consuming content.
10. Creating content. Participating and making contributions to the social landscape.
11. Dream and express yourself. Reflect, reveal, experiment & try things on -self-expression defines you – via your blog, videos, comments, avatars, names & profiles.
12. Share what you find and what you create. Share what you know. You become a teacher.
13. Teamwork – collaboration
14. Opportunities and potential are endless. Opportunity to help others -opportunity to recognize your global responsibility. opportunity to learn to use technology ethically and responsibly.
15. What footprints are you leaving?
16. Unlike in sand the digital footprints you make and leave once made do not wash away
17. What you do online are your digital footprints that make up your digital persona – they are an extension of you.
- They represent you.
- You have to be aware, monitor, and filter them. You have to take care of them.
- You have to take responsibility for them.
- You have to be in charge of your digital self….
The social web is an amazing place that enhances and enriches our personal and professional lives.Think about this… online you are and you become whom you know, what you link to, what you share, what you bookmark, what comments you leave, what you blog, the pictures & videos you post, the art you create, how you express yourself, where you go…
January
22
teaching outside the “box”
Alexandra M. Pickett
Associate Director . SUNY Learning Network . State University Plaza . Albany, NY 12246 . T: 1.518.443.5622 F: 1.518.443.5167
alexandra.pickett@suny.edu . http://sln.suny.edu
teaching outside the “box”
http://slideshare.net/alexandrapickett . http://prezi.com/cjmoerciiegp/ . http://voicethread.com/share/524903/
Examples from my online course
- http://etap687.edublogs.org – professor and student blogs for ETAP687. http://etap687.edublogs.org/category/cooltools/ – list of cooltools.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/MOLSgi8Y – tour of ETAP687 (example of jing screencast).
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtxAkPP1xM – ETAP687 welcome.
- http://voicethread.com/share/450225/ & http://voicethread.com/share/38310/ – ice-breaking activities for ETAP687.
- http://twitter.com/ETAP687 – ETAP687 text course announcements.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRqYDEfKIs & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrmCuNX2bg – video course announcements.
- http://video.seesmic.com/videos/zoJ4Uxx9JO – ETAP687 video course announcement.
- http://groups.diigo.com/groups/ETAP687 – shared references for ETAP687.
- http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main & http://tinyurl.com/knqap9 – ETAP687 playlist of podcasted audio student feedback.
- http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/build-it-activity-feedback-from-modules-1-2/ – pod- and screen-casted student feedback.
- http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main – feedback
- http://www.screencast.com/t/whCXu3oj4b – feedback.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/gvb43kilynw – response to question and how to instructions.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/P8rpgTNt1O – clarification.
- http://www.screencast.com/t/hhrJp3h2 – instructions.
- http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/reflections-blog-post-grading-rubric/ – blog grading rubric.
- http://tinyurl.com/5l83or – exemplar courses for observation (faculty podcasts) for students in ETAP687.
- http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1106177&page=1 – my ratings for summer 2008.
- http://etap687.edublogs.org/2008/08/26/i-teach-like-a-girl/ – student comments/quotes about course.
Join my networks!
1. http://www.twitter.com/alexpickett
2. http://www.slideshare.net/alexandrapickett/slideshows
3. http://www.youtube.com/user/alexandrapickett
4. http://video.seesmic.com/alexandrapickett
5. http://www.diigo.com/profile/alexandrapickett & http://del.icio.us/alexandrapickett/
6. http://www.screencast.com/users/alexandrapickett
7. http://twitter.com/slnsolsummit & http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org/
8. http://flickr.com/photos/alexandrapickett
9. http://friendfeed.com/alexandrapickett & http://facebook.com/alexandrapickett
10. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrapickett
11. Alejandra Subagja in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Learning%20Network/128/128/0
12. Skype: alexandrapickett
Cooltools
- Edublogs – http://edublogs.org – free blogs for educators (wordpress).
- Voicethread – http://voicethread.com/ – collaborative, multimedia slide show.
- Diigo – http://diigo.com – social bookmarking.
- Twitter – http://twitter.com – microblog.
- Gcast – http://www.gcast.com – podcasting.
- Rockyou – http://www.rockyou.com– example animation made with Rockyou – http://etap687.edublogs.org/secondlife-if-my-avatar-could-talk/
- Animoto – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP40bLdmJ_4 – example slide animation created w/animoto – http://animoto.com/projects
- Wordle – http://www.wordle.net/ – word clouds.
- Prezi – http://prezi.com/ – zooming prezo editor alternative to powerpoint.
- SLN teaching presence survey – http://sln.suny.edu/teachingsurvey – improve your online course!
- Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – record and edit sound.
- Skype – http://about.skype.com/ – voice/video/chat/file share.
- Jing – http://www.jingproject.com/ – screen capture.
- Seesmic – http://video.seesmic.com/ – online video blog/video threaded asynchronous discussion.
- The flip – http://www.theflip.com/ – video camera.
- Youtube quick capture – http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_quick_capture – capture video directly into youtube.
- Polldaddy – http://www.polldaddy.com/ – online polls.
- Mogulus – http://www.mogulus.com/ – watch, produce, record live web broadcast.
- Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/ – web broadcast.
- Facebook groups and pages – http://whyfacebook.com/2008/11/25/facebook-groups-vs-facebook-pages-which-is-best/ – social network.
- Flickr groups – http://www.flickr.com/groups/ – group foto sharing.
- Drop.io – http://drop.io/about – online collaboration and file sharing.
- Meebo/meebome – http://www.meebo.com/ – web page chat.
- Mindmeister – http://www.mindmeister.com/ – online mind mapping.
- Moodle – http://moodle.org/ – open source learning management system.
- Rate my Professor – http://www.ratemyprofessors.com – Prof. rating directory.
- Second Life – https://join.secondlife.com & http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php – 3D user-created virtual world.
- Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/ – photo sharing.
- Slideshare – http://slideshare.net/ – slide and document sharing.
- Web 2.0 web applications index – www.go2web20.net – web 2.0 directory.
- Map of the world 2.0 – http://www.appappeal.com/web-2-0-application-world-mosaic/ – web 2.0 directory.
Videos
- http://www.youtube.com/user/SUNYlearningnetwork
- http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=10135682177CBD2D – PSWC Competencies for Online Teaching Success (COTS).
- http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2B2D95F792BD3802 – PSWC Strategies for Managing the Online Workload.
- A Vision on Students Today – http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
- Did you know? http://youtube.com/watch?v=rjKBsfk_O8c
- The Machine is Us/ing Us – http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Blogs
1. http:etap687.edublogs.org – my personal blog/course blog.
2. http://slneducation.edublogs.org/ – my work blog.