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Making Concepts Come Alive

Making Concepts Come Alive. or…. Classrooms Don’t Have to be Deadly. We Have A Tough Job. Diverse Students Diverse Instructors Diverse Delivery Demands We need good tools and strategies to help us do our job right!. Student Diversity. Vast range of experience Traditional vs. Adult

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Making Concepts Come Alive

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  1. Making Concepts Come Alive or… Classrooms Don’t Have to be Deadly

  2. We Have A Tough Job • Diverse Students • Diverse Instructors • Diverse Delivery Demands We need good tools and strategies to help us do our job right!

  3. Student Diversity • Vast range of experience • Traditional vs. Adult • Hardware vs. Software • Full Spectrum of Learning Styles • Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic, Interactive • Full Range of Needs • ESL • Physical & learning handicaps

  4. Delivery Diversity • Face to Face • Large lecture format • Small lecture format • 14,10 or 8 week semesters • With or without lab • Hybrid or Online • Different forms of Internet access • Dial up, Broadband

  5. InstructorDiversity • Full time • Instructors to full professor • Adjuncts • New or “seasoned” • Different levels of expertise, interests and knowledge base. • Different amounts of start-up and prep time

  6. Dilemma • How, as instructors, do we: • Manage the diversity in students? • Manage the diversity in delivery methods? And… • Keep the students interested? • Does the “sit down, shut up, listen and learn” method really work?

  7. What We Are Doing • Sequence and select topics with spin toward student interest • Increase classroom interaction • Inject current events • Use of ART and images • Weave in multimedia • Smarter assessment strategies

  8. Important in any classroom environment Use the same set of teaching strategies to any student…

  9. Sequence and Select Topics • Sequence and Select topics with a spin toward student interest: • Home Networking • CD Burner Installation • Mobile Technology

  10. Classroom Interaction • Increase Classroom Interaction • Group Projects – Web Quests • Design Your Own • Borrow from the Web • From the text • Spam spam spam spam

  11. Classroom Interaction • Team Times • Gizmo, Inc. from page 147 of Tech in Action • Let the students be the teacher • PPT presentations • Organizing Key Terms

  12. CurrentEvents • Current events • Tech TV • Newspapers: in print and online • Web Work

  13. You Gotta Have Art! • Lots of ART ready to go • From the book and • Different from the book

  14. MoreArt 3D renderings

  15. Multimedia • Multimedia • Tech TV • Warriors of the . Net • Our Own Animations • SoundBytes – • Virtual PC Tour (Chapter 2) • Installing a Computer Network (Chapter 7) • Labs • hands on learning even at home

  16. SmarterAssessment Assessment • Combination of projects – • multi layered, multi-purpose • Feather in application skills • PPT projects • Word/Excel skills • Automated training/testing to be more efficient in delivery

  17. And all this means…. • We are constantly • Reinventing • Repackaging • Redesigning …With little time

  18. Consider This Scenario… • Assigned a Sound Byte as pre-lecture material. • Want today’s lecture to build on that and to provoke discussion. • Need to reorganize PPT and find coordinating animations • Need homework assignment • Also want class materials shipped off to supporting BBD site Ten minutes to lecture!

  19. How to Organize all THAT!?! Present IT! The “Next Gen” Instructor Resource CD!

  20. Contact Information Mary Anne Poatsy mpoatsy@mc3.edu Montgomery County Community College 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, PA 19422

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