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Classroom Salon

Classroom Salon. John Barr Computer Science Department Ithaca College Ananda Gunawardena Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University. Problem. Contemporary students are distracted Too many forms of new media Attention span seems to be attenuated

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Classroom Salon

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  1. Classroom Salon John Barr Computer Science Department Ithaca College AnandaGunawardena Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University

  2. Problem • Contemporary students are distracted • Too many forms of new media • Attention span seems to be attenuated • Contemporary students don’t read, don’t know how to read, don’t know how to read in a sustained fashion

  3. What is Classroom Salon? • Classroom Salon is an on-line social collaboration tool that allows instructors to create, manage, and analyze social networks (called Salons) to enhance student learning.

  4. What is Classroom Salon? • Students in a Salon can cooperatively annotate and discuss documents (& videos) and answer questions

  5. What is Classroom Salon? • Salons • Social groups • Documents & Videos • Annotations (highlights, tags, & comments) • Questions & breadcrumbs • Messages • View other people’s annotations & responses • Dashboard • analytics

  6. What is Classroom Salon? participate manage

  7. What is Classroom Salon? • Classroom Salon provides tools that allow the instructor to monitor the social networks and gauge both student participation and individual effectiveness.

  8. Monitoring Individual Students Thomas Manzini annotations Performance in each unit responses Salons Created: 2 Documents uploaded: 6 Annotations Made: 56 Responses Provided: 40 Commenting on others: 42 Open Discussions: 38 Commenting on others Filter discussions How time spent

  9. Classroom Salon… • Go to http://www.classroomsalon.org/ • Log in with • Account: your IC email, e.g., barr@ithaca.edu • Password: wednesday • Find the ithacafaculty salon and join it • Look at your wall for your first assignment

  10. Students and Social Media

  11. Need to belong to a group

  12. Education and Social Media Shared editing (google docs) Wiki’s Blogs

  13. What Salon does… • Salon on the other hand, is designed to provide • More in-depth discussions • More discussions in the context • Sustained attention over time • Study of textbooks (documents, videos)

  14. Three questions Salon can help with… • Where do students have problems with the material? • Are students doing the readings? • Can students learn outside of class (flipped classroom)

  15. Salon helps…. • Keep course content discussions in the context

  16. Summary

  17. What Salon does • Easily integrate salon activities to your course web page • Encourage course transparency • Provide access to what others think before tests or assignments • Encourage private small salons • Allow students to get to know each other through salon annotations and visualizations • Provide guidance for forming private sub salons • Allow students to view others annotations and change theirs (if necessary) • Allow instructors to “get to know” the students (follow-unfollow) • Carry document annotations and hotspots from semester to semester

  18. Questions?

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