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Expanding the Classroom: To Infinity and Beyond

Expanding the Classroom: To Infinity and Beyond. Podcasts, Vodcasts and Websites Oh, My! Rick Shelton Assistant Coordinator for Academic Services Center for Teaching and Learning Northeastern State University. To Infinity and Beyond.

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Expanding the Classroom: To Infinity and Beyond

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  1. Expanding the Classroom:To Infinity and Beyond Podcasts, Vodcasts and Websites Oh, My! Rick Shelton Assistant Coordinator for Academic Services Center for Teaching and Learning Northeastern State University

  2. To Infinity and Beyond • “To succeed in our struggle to build technology and new media to support learning, we must move far beyond the traditional view of teaching as delivery of information.” 1John Seely Brown

  3. Overview • How do we make sense of it all? • What’s good about it? • What’s the downside? • Websites • Podcasts • Vodcasts

  4. How do we make sense of it all?

  5. How do we make sense of it all? • Technology today can quickly overtake a classroom with its complexity and the endless options available to the instructor

  6. How do we make sense of it all? • Develop a plan • Stick to your plan • Build in flexibility • Technology cannot instruct • Technology is a tool, not a solution

  7. How do we make sense of it all? • Use reliable sites for video and audio content • Use content that fits the lesson • Be sure you have the software and hardware you need • Ask questions of your support staff

  8. What’s Good About It?

  9. What’s Good About It? • “Today’s digital kids think of information and communications technology (ICT) as something akin to oxygen: they expect it, it’s what they breathe, and it’s how they live.”1John Seely Brown

  10. What’s Good About It? • Emphasis is on content, not the instructor • Increases instructor’s resources • Students are familiar with medium • Learning is expanded beyond the classroom in real time • Most schools now have the needed infrastructure

  11. What’s Good About It? • Interactivity is increased • Instruction on the Internet accentuates the "student as worker" and the "teacher as coach" paradigms2 • Cost-to-benefit ratio is excellent

  12. What’s Good About It? • Basic equipment is all that is needed • Computer • Speakers • Internet access • Media players installed • Quicktime • Windows media player • Flash • A projector depending on classroom or lab

  13. What’s the Downside?

  14. What’s the Downside? • Many instructors fear technology • Feeling that students are more capable than instructor • You must be able to recognize good materials • Some work is required to sort the good from the bad • There are a lot of bad sites out there

  15. What’s the Downside? • Some sites may be down • Your network may be down • Virus threats from files • Tendency to treat technology as the solution • Technology choices seem overwhelming • Information could be dated

  16. Websites

  17. Websites • Focus on established websites • Beware of dubious websites • Try to use sites with • .edu • .gov • .org • .com sites are commercial • Others are personal in nature

  18. Websites • National Science Research Center • http://www.nsrconline.org/index.html • Smithsonian • http://www.smithsonian.tv/ • Amazing Space • http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

  19. Podcasts • Podcast is an emerging term used for the online delivery of audio-on-demand content

  20. Podcasts • Education Podcast Network • http://epnweb.org/ • Podcasting news • http://www.podcastingnews.com/ • National Public Radio • www.npr.org • iTunes U • http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/

  21. Podcasts • Podcast.net • http://www.podcast.net/ • PodcastAlly • http://www.podcastalley.com/ • iPodder.org • http://www.ipodder.org/ • NASA • http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainbites/nasa

  22. Vodcast • Vodcast is an emerging term used for the online delivery of video-on-demand content

  23. Vodcasts • Vodstock • http://www.vodstock.com • Vodcasts.tv • http://www.vodcasts.tv/

  24. Questions

  25. Reference Sources • Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn, by John Seely Brown • “The Effects of Internet-based Instruction on Student Learning” - Dr. Scott B. Wegner, Associate Professor • Impact of the Internet on Learning and Teaching - Hossein Arsham http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/MAR02_Issue/article01.html

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