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.