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Debbie L. Kirkley Sue A. Bauer University of Central Florida

Debbie L. Kirkley Sue A. Bauer University of Central Florida. Debbie Kirkley Instructional Specialist Fully Online Instructor BA History MA Educational Technology Sue Bauer Instructional Specialist Fully Online Instructor BA Elementary Education

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Debbie L. Kirkley Sue A. Bauer University of Central Florida

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  1. Debbie L. Kirkley Sue A. Bauer University of Central Florida

  2. Debbie Kirkley • Instructional Specialist • Fully Online Instructor • BA History • MA Educational Technology Sue Bauer • Instructional Specialist • Fully Online Instructor • BA Elementary Education • MA Instructional Technology Instructional Systems

  3. Unit of Information Technologies & Resources (IT&R) Academic Affairs • Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) • Computer Services • Library • Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) • Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE) • Course Development & Web Services (CDWS)

  4. Established, June 1963 • One of Florida’s 11 public universities • First classes taught October 1968 with 1,948 students • Fall 2006 Enrollment: 46,719 • Metropolitan university with 11 regional campuses • Located East of Orlando

  5. Population • >45k Students • 38% of student population active in WebCT • Online @ UCF in Spring 2006 • WebCT Vista 4.0 and CE4.1 • Web (W) – 307 WebCT accounts • Mixed Modality (M) - 191 WebCT accounts • Enhanced - 1001 WebCT accounts • ITV/F/V – 214 WebCT accounts

  6. 2005 EDUCAUSE Teaching & Learning Award • 2003 Sloan Consortium in Online Teaching & Learning Faculty Development Award • 2001 Campus Tours 4-Star Tour Award • 2000 Excellence in Distance Learning Program Award United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) • 1998 APQC-SHEEO Faculty Development Award for Teaching with Technology • EDUCAUSE NLII “DLBest Practice” 97-99

  7. Story of El Dorado & the DC-3 • Scalable Faculty Support Model • Identifying New Technologies • Support Faculty implementing new technologies • Adopt, Test, and Pilot Emerging Technology Strategies • Blending Emerging Technologies in UCF courses

  8. El Dorado • Thought to be • the “City of Gold” • miracle city searched for by Spanish Conquistador • What it really was • grassland with mud huts • golden in color during sunset hours

  9. DC-3 • first flew on December 17, 1935 (the 32nd. anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk) • revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s • one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made

  10. It raised the BIG question… Are Emerging Technologies (Blogs, Wikis, PodCasting, etc.) • the city of El Dorado or • are they the next DC-3?

  11. Institutional Model and Challenges

  12. Our Response

  13. Emerging Technologies

  14. Incorporate an Emerging technology into professional development offerings • Current Project: Enhanced Podcasting • Created team • Drafted Proposal • Project Management using Wiki • Implementation

  15. Blogging • Wikis • Podcasting • Virtual Worlds • Game-based Learning • Instant Messaging

  16. increase meaningful student interaction • authenticate learning experience beyond the online classroom • resource exchange • collaboration in course-related activities while practicing technological skills http://reach.ucf.edu/~hsc6636i/

  17. Students are assigned to a blogging group • Groups: Investigate and research specified topics and share information via the blog at least once each week • Groups manage the content of their blogs • Groups respond to comments posted by visitors • Individuals: Visit other group blogs and post insights at least twice during the semester • Students earn grades based upon: • extent to which they follow established protocols • the substance and accuracy of their posts

  18. Informal • Gauge student participation • Student blogs used as journals http://reach.ucf.edu/~eme5208/BlogList.html

  19. Topical • Local history • Informative http://turpentinecamp.blogspot.com/ http://historyandhistorians.blogspot.com

  20. Collaborative workspace • Module 4: Hardware Applications for Educators EME 2040 - Introduction to Educational Technology http://www.wikispaces.com

  21. Collaborative area of exploration • Interaction with content • Student/Student interaction • Faculty/Student interaction • Active Worlds • http://www.activeworlds.com/index.asp • Croquet • http://www.opencroquet.org/ • Second Life • http://secondlife.com/

  22. Thanks for coming! Come visit us in Florida! Debbie L. Kirkley dkirkley@mail.ucf.edu Sue Bauer sbauer@mail.ucf.edu

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